Against Abortion Essay

Abortion can be defined as the deliberate termination of a pregnancy and is a topic that has been continually argued about for over thirty years. The subject of abortion has been continuously argued between two main viewpoints: Pro-choice and pro-life. People who support pro-choice believe that women have the choice to terminate a pregnancy. People who are pro-life oppose abortion and the legality of it. As a young women I find mind self with many questions regarding this controversial issue. As…

vote on the 14th amendment to apply to pre-born fetuses, so that the right of life guaranteed by the Constitution applies to them too. In addition, he even against a bill that allocated $100 million to reduce teen pregnancy by education and contraception, and is given a 100% by the NRLC indicating a pro-life voting record (James Inhofe on Abortion). This is fitting for him, considering that he represents Oklahoma, one of the top 10 conservative states in the country (Newport, 2015). In part this…

Women are prohibited from abortion in country X. This remains a major problem because country X doesn’t respect women’s political or civil rights that involve making decisions regarding their bodily integrity, which forces women to carry fetuses to term. In this paper, I will argue that we ought to reject Don Marquis’ notion of opposing abortion due to the presence of the fetus’s future of value because Marquis fails to properly account for the type of future that the female fetus would…

Before Judith Jarvis Thomson, all the philosophers that have been arguing pro and against abortion have mainly been focusing on establish if the foetus is a person or not. In fact, arguments pro-abortion would argue that the foetus is only a leaiving tissue of DNA. On the other hand, arguments against it, would say that the foetus is a person since it presents human characteristics. In this regard, Thomson offers an original contribution moving one steps forward in respect to the others…

will be over 3,500 killed in the USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal Day,” –Matt Drudge. Abortion is a very serious and controversial topic. Before I begin I must say that you should be informed on the opposing side as much as your own before you argue on a subject such as this. Which I have done throughout my first learning about abortion to now. With that said, I will be explaining abortion, giving statistics, countering…

Thomson believes that, at least in many cases, an abortion performed when the mother’s life is not threatened by the pregnancy would not be unjust. For Thompson to establish this, she needs to refute the “extreme view” against abortion, which holds that the foetus is a person from the moment of conception, and that all people have a right to life. Thus, it would be wrong to kill a foetus. Rather than focusing her argument on whether a foetus is a person – for she concedes that all people do for…

Abortion is a very sensitive and controversial issue to discuss and argue about. There are many arguments of whether abortion is allowed or not. Many people think that abortion should not be allowed, and it is a very immoral decision to make for women because people think that abortion is just like committing murder and it is killing the human fetus. There are some people think that it depends on how large the fetus is. If the fetus is small, it does not count as murder, but if the fetus is…

Many believe that it is a woman’s right to do with her body what she will, including the choice to terminate the baby growing inside of her, but I disagree. Abortion is murder. Once a woman is pregnant, her body is no longer her own and the law should account for the fact that an unborn baby is as much a life as anyone else. Therefore, abortion should be monitored and only utilized under extreme circumstances. Is the life of an unborn child equal to its mother’s? Realistically, it is not. Say an…

and the Pro-abortionist. Abortion is the termination of pregnancy; sometimes known as many other names like miscarriage. I am one of those many people who are against abortions for many different reasons. There are many different reasons why people should be against abortion also. Pro-abortionist believe that, “Abortion is not murder,” no matter how late in the pregnancy, no matter how much it might be able to live outside a woman’s body, a fetus is not a child. “Abortion is not murder.” A…

choose. To take that choice away is to deny her rights. As such, an individual can choose whether or not to have an abortion, but that choice must be available. It is of the utmost importance, for economical, safety, and health reasons that a woman may be faced with. Having an abortion might be safer for the woman than carrying the pregnancy to term. A first-trimester abortion is one of the safest medical procedures and carries minimal risk and virtually no long term risk. Less than 0.05% of…