Argumentative Essay on Abortion

Abortion should be a part of a country’s contraception policy. People should plan their families and society must allow women to end unwanted pregnancies in order to deal with failures of birth control, cases of rape and cases of incest. Abortion should be legalized but discouraged. Legal, because it is a choice; discouraged because there are other more effective ways to prevent pregnancy than abortion. Abortion is all about allowing a woman to make her own decisions, in relation to her…

horrifying reality linked to abortion, the debate about allowing abortion in a moral society has never ceased. There are various ethical theories that would support abortion based on some arguments. The theory argues that the moral rightness is based on the total good the consequences of a certain activity (Sinnott-Armstrong, 1). According to the consequentialist ethical theory, a consequentialist would first enquire on the consequences allowing the abortion and not allowing abortion. The…

today’s societies are having abortions. “Abortion is the act of removing a human embryo or fetus from the uterus of a pregnant woman prior to the completion of the full term of pregnancy” (Rich and Geraldine 1). Abortion should remain illegal. In just 5 weeks of a pregnancy cycle, the fetus has a heartbeat. In most cases, some women do not know that they are pregnant by then. Even if she finds out she is in the first trimester, most women still go on with abortion. “On January 22, 1973,…

States has been divided on the issue of abortions. The fundamental basis for this argument centers on the issue of whether a fetus is a human life or not. This implies that abortion could be considered as murder if it is viewed as a human lifeform. On the other side, some people hold the view that the human fetus is within another human being who must take care of it when it is born so that individual has the right to take a decision. In my opinion, abortion is in unhuman act. In my opinion, the…

Abortion is where a zygote is terminated and taken from the womb. This medical procedure can be done two ways; the first way is to enter an in-clinic abortion and the second by taking a pill. The in- clinic procedure starts with the clinic staff asking the patient if she would like to have an abortion via medication or a surgical abortion. Next, they let her consider all of her options. It is recommended that the patient obtains a sonogram to determine if the pregnancy is viable (uterine,…

5. I believe that abortion should be illegal except for in circumstances where the mother’s life is in jeopardy or rape. • When life begins - Life begins at fertilization when the sperm and egg join together to form one human zygote with a complete set of 23 pairs of chromosomes. - Princeton University states, “ The product of fertilization is a living human being with 46 chromosomes. “ - 46 chromosomes is the complete set of chromosomes in the human genome and thus during fertilization when…

Maternal Mortality has been on a steady decline in developed countries such as the United States. However, in the under-developed areas maternal mortality rates have remained unusually high. The alarming issue is not a new and emerging topic, however with over half a million women dying each year due to pregnancy complications the issue has become one of great prominence (Hunt & Bueno de Mesquita, 2014). In order to improve the issues changes must be made at the economical, social, political,…

Abortion is arguably the most prominent issue in the United States. Whether it comes to political policy or just someone’s moral standpoint, abortion means so much to citizens. The Bible does not directly touch upon abortion. Nowhere in the text does it directly say the word “abortion,” however it does discuss a baby’s life. In many instances, it speaks of the baby’s life and how it is sacred. Jeremiah 1:4-5 states “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” (The Holy Bible), God was saying how…

Abortion is a very controversial topic in the world. In America, after long debation, abortion is legal with a few restrictions. However, in some places in the world it is still illegal. Not having the right to abortion suppresses women’s rights of choice. Without this option, some women are forced to take care of a baby despite many conflicts. As an anonymous source stated, “No woman has an abortion for fun.” In this paper, the reader will learn why abortions are extremely important in the…

1. What is Noonan 's "Argument from Probabilities?" How does this argument work, and what does he think it implies about the morality or immorality of abortion? The argument from probabilities is not aimed at establishing an objective discontinuity which may be taken into account in moral disclosure. Life itself is a matter of probabilities, as most moral reasoning is an estimate of probabilities. It seems in accord with the structure of reality and the nature of moral thought to found a moral…