Religious Arguments Against Abortion

Abortion is referred to as “the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed before the first 28 weeks of pregnancy”. It is also one of the most controversial debates in the country at the moment, and has been for a long time. The whole debacle started with the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, which is the case that allowed abortions to be practiced. There are many reasons for why I, and many others, believe that they should be allowed. Our point of view is called Pro Choice. Prolife supporters use many arguments to try to deny that abortions should be allowed. Many of the arguments that they use are based in religion, but then there are others that actually have some meaning in the court of law. Some of the more …show more content…
There is a certain amount of separation of church and state here in America. This is because in the 1st Amendment, which gives citizens the freedom of religion, has two clauses stating this. They are the Establishment clause and the Free Exercise Clause. The Establishment Clause is the most important clause in this instance because it prevents the United States from declaring a nationwide religion, and also prohibits the favoritism of the government of one religion over the other. This means that if a Christian says that we shouldn’t allow abortions because it is against their religion, then that would violate the establishment clause by establishing federal laws from views of the Christian religion, thereby endorsing a …show more content…
Even if fetuses are “alive” as in sentient human beings, (this is a very controversial topic that I have stated my opinion on earlier) than the “right to life” that they would have doesn’t include using someone else’s body to survive. If we allowed them this supposed “right” than women would have less rights to their own bodies than corpses. The Prolife movement believes “If a person wanted to take perfectly healthy organs with them to the grave, we shrug our shoulders, and say, "Well, so be it. That 's his choice."”. Those organs could have saved lives, but it was the person’s choice not to donate them, and we must respect their wishes. BECAUSE IT IS THEIR RIGHT! If we refuse to allow women to be able to terminate their pregnancies, (Aka not allowing women to choose what they do with their bodies), we are giving an unborn fetus (whom would not survive outside of the womb anyway) more rights to living than a woman with a life, a job, and a family. Also we have the choice when a person is on life support to “pull the plug”. How is this any different? They cannot live otherwise, and we can stop their life, but you can’t abort a fetus? Who is also technically, by some standards, not even a person