Dying Fetus

much debate. There are many opinions on whether or not women should be able to have an abortion or not. I think women should definitely be able to have an abortion if they want to. Women’s health can be affected if she is not able to have one, the fetus can’t feel pain, and overall it should be the woman’s choice. To begin with, fetuses aren’t able to feel pain during the time abortions are performed. Pain doesn’t occur for fetuses until the 29th or 30th week of being in the mother’s womb.…

As Margaret Sanger once said, No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. Women’s right to their bodies are being taken away by pro-life supporters. Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy. The beginning of abortion started early in the 1820’s when Connecticut passed the first law in the United States to allow “quickening” which was performed on women after their fourth week of…

agrees it was an accident then that is accidental murder. Murder implies malice, intentional and premeditated were involved in killing someone. Wanting an abortion is not saying the woman has malice toward the baby or feels good about hurting the fetus. “From the point of view of someone who believes that every fertilized egg is a sentient human person, abortion would horrific, tragic, and lethal. But it wouldn't be any more murderous than any other kind of accidental death.” (Head 1) Therefore…

The procedure of abortion is performed everyday, it is the termination of a human pregnancy. Removing the fetus from the mother 's body is essentially removing what could be a new life. Which draws the question, is abortion morally acceptable? When processing this question several thoughts run through a person 's mind. Things such as is it the mother 's choice being able to terminate the pregnancy? Or if taking a life not born is murder? How I respond to these questions is it is morally…

pain medicine physician, "1,186 late-term abortions were conducted in 2012" (Gunter). That equals 1,186 lives that were ripped from this world...futures stripped from human beings. Although a fetus may not be a life since it relies on a host to survive, late-term abortion should be made illegal because the fetus can feel the pain of the D&X procedure, the D&X procedure is harmful to the mother, and women are using abortion as a form of birth control rather than a form of termination in a time of…

In the essay “Why Abortion is Immoral,” philosopher Don Marquis uses utilitarian principles to argue that “abortion is, except in rare cases, seriously immoral…[and] in the same category as killing an innocent human being” (223). However, he deliberately avoids relating his thesis to abortion in the specific contexts of rape, maternal death, and severe postpartum health complications. Thus, in my analysis of his claim, I plan on adopting Marquis’ utilitarian perspective to evaluate the…

people are aware of. In fact, “47,000 women die a year as a result of complications of unsafe abortions”(“Preventing Unsafe Abortion”).When most people think of abortion some may feel like it is harmless, but as we already know it is lethal to the fetus, but most people don't consider the fact that it can also be lethal for the mother as well. As a result more and more people are becoming more informed. “In the United States, only 10 states have made abortion illegal. Those states are; Idaho,…

carrying the child is at some sort of health risk or death. A mother is entitled to make decisions for her own body and to protect herself against harm, even if it means killing someone innocent with no intentions of hurting the mother. Also if the fetus is at risk of health problems at the time or before birth, it is ethical that the mother have an abortion so her baby would not have to live in pain or whatever her feelings were towards the disease. Women who have been raped and became pregnant…

Make Abortions Illegal There is about 1.2 million abortions that are performed each year in the United States. Right now 3,000 unborn infants are killed each day. Abortion is one of the most frequent medical procedures each year. More than 40% of all women will have an abortion at some point in their reproductive lives (emedicinehealth). The current situation is that Abortion is legal in all 50 States. There has been many court trials on whether abortion should be legal or illegal, for instance…

How many of you have ever played a game of tug of war? In tug of war, each team picks a side, and pulls as hard as they can to attempt to get the opposing team members on their side. The argument of abortion is very similar to a game of tug of war. Two sides, two opinions, with the end goal of changing the opponent’s side. The information I could give you on abortion is extremely extensive, so for the sake of your attention spans, I'm going to be talking about three of the most pertinent pieces…