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Abortion Debate
Pros and Cons of Abortion and the Feminist Perspective
The Pro-Life (Judeo/Christian) Perspective: God is the author of life and controls how that life will be dispensed. This is true of both birth and death. It is not the responsibility of the individual to either begin their life or to end it because the life is not theirs it is God's. When God chooses to bless a human being with being the surrogate for the beginning of said life, again it should not be the decision of that individual, who has a completely separate life growing inside of them, to choose whether that life should be continued or ended; again, that decision is to be made by God, the author of life. A woman's right to choose then ends when she decides to have intercourse with a male, realizing that the end product could be a sampling of God's gift of life. The fact that women are the vessels chosen to bare this life means that they are blessed above men, not that they are somehow subject to laws that men are not a part of. If the life becomes an issue for the mother, then God will end that life Himself. It is God's law that decides when life is to begin and end not human law. Therefore, it is a null argument to believe that people are trying to control what happens to another individual and their body. The attempt is to realize that life is sacred to God and should be to His creation also.
The Anti-Judeo/Christian Position: Not every person has a monotheistic belief in a...
Even the Christian God admits that He gave people the ultimate decision over what they believe is right and wrong, so it should not be a question of whether God controls life or not, but who makes the decision. Since the woman is in control of her body, she makes the decision regarding anything that happens with it. It also does not matter whether life begins at conception or not. The embryo or fetus is within the woman's body and thus is controlled by the decisions of the person whose body it inhabits.
The Feminist Perspective:
The main question in this position is when a pregnancy can be said to represent a life. Research contends that "the feminist perspectives assume the medical distinction between the zygote (the fertilized ovule in the first hours after conception), the embryo (pregnancy from the first to the eighth week) and the foetus (the human entity developed inside the uterus after the eighth week)" (Gavriluta, 2010). Therefore, the will of the mother is preeminent during the first eight weeks and concern for both lives occupies the following 32.
Abortion Pros:
A woman is always in control of her body. There should be no interference from anyone else because what happens within the sphere of her body is…
References
Balogh, L. (2009). The public debate on the religiosity of the public debate of bioethics in the U.S.A. Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 8(23), 3-12.
Gavriluta, N. (2010). Abortion and challenges of applied ethics. Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 9(26), 238-243.
Pickering, B.A. (2003). Women's voices as evidence: Personal testimony in pro-choice films. Argumentation and Advocacy, 40(1), 1-33.
Pourreza, A., & Batebi, A. (2011). Psychology consequences of abortion among the post abortion care seeking women in Tehran. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry, 6(1), 31-41.
Abortion remains a political issue, in spite of the fact the Supreme Court decision in 1973 that ensured the rights of women to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Roe v. Wade reflects core Constitutional principles, ranging from the right to privacy invoked by the Supreme Court justices in the decision, to the tradition of separating matters of Church and State in American politics. When it comes to abortion, there are essentially no
Cons of Abortion After three decades of legalized abortion in the United States, it is still a controversial topic (Earll, 2003). Many abortion supporters do not understand why the nation is still divided on the topic after all this time. According to Sammon (2002): "Abortion is one of those issues that will be argued forever with never an answer agreed upon by competing factions. It's a debate that manages to combine
Conclusion Abortion from a purely moral or ethical perspective can never be endorsed. However, in some medical conditions where the life of the mother is at stake abortion as a life saving intervention is certainly approved. Also in cases where the pregnancy is due to sexual victimization the woman has the right to decide about abortion. Irrespective of the methods used abortion leaves a great psychological stigma and guilt feeling. The more
They argue that the fetus only has the potential of developing into a full-fledged human being; in the same way as an acorn has the potential of developing into an oak tree. In their view it is as ludicrous to call an embryo an independent human being as it would be to call an acorn an oak tree. (Lewis, 2000) Right of Woman Over Her Body The main "pro-choice" argument is
The crux of the matter, of course, is that Polish law is incongruent with that throughout Europe as denoted within the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The latter provides access for all citizens throughout the Continent to have "respect for privacy and family life" (Martin). This is a great right, and one that is worthy of being upheld. However, in Poland, abortions are
Abortion A Modest Proposal: Abortion for Two Perhaps the most significant debate of recent decades on a political, religious, and social level is that of abortion. Many questions are raised about whether this is a justified right inherent to any fertile woman, or an inhumane practice fostered by a barbaric society. Those who believe it is not right to abort the unborn struggle to make it as difficult as possible for anyone