Abortion And Women's Rights Analysis

For many years, there has been the constant argument over the stance of abortion, whether the rights of the unborn override the right of choice for a woman. The sources for both sides of the argument, “The Wrong of Abortion” by Patrick Lee and Robert P. George advocating for the rights of the unborn, while on the other side Marianna Karakoulakis, “Abortion and Women’s Right’s in the U.S.A supports the rights of the women. Lee and George’s article articulates how an embryo is to be considered a human and that it 's right to life prevails the women 's right to choose. In contrast, Karakoulakis argues that a woman’s right to chose has become a civil liberties issue that needs to be understood by the public as the right side of the abortion debate. …show more content…
In contradiction to Lee and George’s argument, Karakoulakis argues that as a result of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that knowingly emphasizes that “all human being are born free” in a way that life starts at birth. She dissects the lawful aspect of abortion in the United States and the historical background as well as the birth control mandate. Her argument starts out with the implicit premise that women have the right to control her own body. She then goes on to point out that by denying this right it is taking away the freedom of personal choice. This freedom exceeds the rights of the unborn. This all leads to her explicit premise that abortion should be legal in this country. Despite the fact that this is a well thought out argument, throughout the article she never really explains why a woman has a right of choice over her body over the fetus’s right to life. If she went into more detail about what exactly gives this right to a woman and why it’s more important than a fetus’s birthright than the argument would flow better and allow the reader to understand the