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Saying that more gun control would lessen the amount number of shootings and gun violence is a bit of a ridiculous statement. People who smoke crack still smoke crack even though it’s illegal. People that buy and sell little girls are still going to continue to do so even though it’s illegal. What makes people think that more gun control will keep people from buying the guns? People don’t want every daylkdaypaydaywere in a movie theater or a school and open fire on innocent people and children because it’s legal. Increasing gun control isn’t going to make crazy people any less crazy, it might just disarm the people that could protect others from them. People buy weapons every daywereremovedpayday illegally and increasing control on people who are following the law and buying guns legally just doesn’t seem right.
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There are so many issues today that are very controversial and divide the nation in half. Although some of these issues have been resolved or are in the process of being resolved, there are still so many with no resolution in sight. These issues divide the nation in half, divide households even, and there’s no telling what could happen in the future. All of these are very important, and I think it’s more important that we the people stick together and not let our differences lead to more violence and tension than itthanthanthan already have. I think these issues go beyond the Constitution. Our founding fathers, no matter how wise they were, had no idea what problems we would be facing today. They had no way of knowing because there was theno the other when waythe and they could have fathomed the advancements and progression of society. Now we have to decide what’s right and what’s wrong for us in today’s time. Not what was right hundreds of years ago.
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To maintain women’s rights, health, and safety abortions must be an available option to all women in the United States. Women should be able to choose whether or not to bear a child, and if she does not wish to carry a child they should be able to have a healthy way to terminate the fetus. If women are not granted this opportunity they will still find ways to get rid of the child, even if it is illegal. The Constitution protects a woman’s right to have an abortion, and if abortions are made illegal it will go against the supreme law of the land.
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The 19th Amendment of the United States Constitution supports gender equality. The right to have an abortion is vital to maintaining gender equality and women’s rights. There have been many legal cases that were taken to the Supreme Court regarding women’s rights to abortions in the United States. According to the Supreme Court judges, taking away a woman’s right to abortion goes against her rights that are clearly stated in the constitution. One could agree that taking away the right to have an abortion throws away all the rights that women have worked hard to obtain in the past.
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It is often said that abortions are unmoral because the procedure takes the life of a human being before it is even born. Anyone with a pro-life point of view will say that our society resents murder but we are all too comfortable taking away a child’s life through abortion. However, the fetus is terminated while it is still an embryo and it does not have the opportunity to grow into a human. When abortions are performed they are removing an organism that has not developed enough for it to be unethical. It is worth bearing in mind that abortions are not allowed for women after the first trimester of their pregnancy because this is when the embryo grows into a child.
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Abortion is a topic that is very controversial in the United States. Thousands of people debate whether having a procedure to abort an embryo is ethical or not. Our country is torn in half with 48% of people having the opinion that having an abortion is morally wrong. It is in America’s favor to allow abortions to remain legal for anyone who wishes to have the procedure. A large amount of the United States’ population expects abortion to remain at least mostly legal in the future. Taking everything that has been said into account, it is unconstitutional, threatening women’s health, and safety risks to ban abortions in the United States.
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The topic of abortion has been a controversial issue for over 40 years and is still seen as an important topic in today’s current events. Although, many doctors, lawyers, politicians, religious leaders, and philosophers have given their ideas on this issue, there has not been a definitive answer to the issue itself. Although each of these groups of people give a different perspective to the abortion issue, it is the philosophers that seem to have no specific motive or gain other than letting their mastery of arguments and line of thought try to help others understand why their arguments are sound.
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Her conclusion is that “If a fetus is a person, abortion is still justifiable in many cases.” By saying this, she is trying to disprove the arguments involving people persuading others that fetuses are considered people, thus abortion would be equivalent to murder. And on the positive side, English is arguing that under certain conditions, it is allowable to have an abortion. This is an important issue to discuss, first because of its connection with the abortion issue itself and secondly because this is premise of English’s larger argument of the answer to the abortion issue should not be based on whether or not the fetus is considered a person.
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Thus proving or disproving this part of her argument may cause readers to reconsider her overall argument. English proposes a scenario where there are attackers at night that are armed with knives and will attack people walking by. English (and I) agree that one would have a right to kill the attacker in self-defense, but only if that is the only way to “protect your life or save yourself from serious injury.” Next, English carries on with the idea of killing being the only way, and explores alternatives. How much harm can you do to your attacker? English concludes that the laws in the US allows one to inflict slightly greater injury to their attacker than what the injury could have been. It is after this introduction that English makes a parallel to this situation with the situations involving pregnancy. The mother is paralleled with the potential victim and the fetus is the potential threat to the mother’s “well-being, life prospects or health, mental or physical.”
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Only grave enough threat to the woman’s well-being from the fetus would be to be freed from the fetus, even though that will kill it, that is the next best alternative to killing the woman’s grave threat. English admits that this is only a good analogy if it’s taken from the woman’s point of view and it makes it sound as if the woman is performing the abortion. With this reasoning, English adds another scenario involving a third party, such as a doctor. English proposes another separate situation involving the reader to imagine being a skilled surgeon and you are kidnapped by an attacker who does not intend to harm you but transfer you to a mad scientist who will give you a mental block of all knowledge relating to medicine. This would destroy your career which would negatively affect your relationships and your happiness. It would seem justifiable to kill the attacker to avoid these potential disastrous outcomes.
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English parallels this to unwanted pregnancies. English then goes on to some other parallels to avoid these unwanted pregnancies, abstinence and contraceptives. This is where she ultimately arrives at her conclusion of abortion still being allowable even if the fetus is considered a person since she has given many parallel examples of where killing can be acceptable. English calls to readers’ minds many interesting scenarios that can be paralleled back to the abortion issue at hand. These scenarios are the basis for her argument in this section. So, it is crucial that these are sound and have been thoroughly depicted. In order to check if her argument is convincing, I will put it to the test by seeing if the job of the scenario makes sense as well as its corresponding parallel makes sense in regards to abortion. The first scenario that English brings up involves an attacker and the victim.
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Now, the attacker is out there and the victim may or may not get attacked, but if he does, it will be unexpected. This is a good clarification that is made here, since this should imply that the soon-to-be-victim will rely on human instincts. Now the attacker has a knife and if he attacks the person, it should be quite obvious that his intent is to kill or seriously injure. English states that killing the attacker in self-defense would be an acceptable thing to do since this would be the only way to stop the attacker. She quickly adds that if there were to be another way to stop the attacker without killing, that should be done as self-defense’s purpose is not to kill. Now the parallel to this is the mother should only use self-defense if the fetus is causing grave danger to her wellbeing. English reminds us that killing the fetus of anything less of causing grave danger to the mother would not be acceptable. This is where I find some problems. What should happen if the fetus causes a problem not grave enough to be killed?
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Things such as morning sickness, kicking from the fetus inside the womb, and extra weight the fetus contributes to the woman, would most likely be considered problems from the woman’s perspective. Now if these were translated over to the original scenario (since it’s still inside the parallel), the victim would be able to inflict some damage but not to the point of killing. This might include potential scrapes or bruises from a fist fight from the attacker. However, in the abortion side of the parallel the mother wouldn’t be able to “defend” herself even slightly. I find this to be a flaw in English’s argument as it shows a lack of completeness of her first parallel. Granted, she is trying to show the worst case, but to get to the worst case I think you would have to find a way to parallel even the lesser cases to show that the small examples build to the larger ones. Also, leaving out this obvious parallel (since she did mention defenses against threats lesser than death), shows an incomplete parallel overall which would make the correlation from the situation to the abortion issue weak.
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English notes that this parallel of self-defense is most useful when looking at the situation from the pregnant woman’s point of view. She admits to some fault in looking at a two person scenario as this would imply that the woman is performing the abortion. This is where English brings in the doctor as the third party in the scenario. She concludes that considering a third party would tend to be more supportive of abortion, since as a passerby, one would probably help the person in the fight if they had a personal connection with or help the one who brings most value to society. She proposes both of these scenarios with aiding your husband “whether he was attacker or victim, ” and a famous violinist attacking a bum.
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Both of her examples are probable yet they show that the third party would support the aggressor. I do not find anything wrong with this part of the argument as it does show her case on how people may be more supportive of an abortion if you are looking at personal relationships or if the fetus’ life is worth much to society. I think this is a fairly strong point, so I believe that English should have capitalized more on this point. Talking more about why this scenario happens and how personal feelings/thoughts puts a different perspective to the abortion issue should be more explained in being good or bad. Should this be a focus in the abortion argument or why should the weight of the argument not be too heavy on feelings and thoughts of close friends of the woman?
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The next main parallel that English brings up (still roughly the same scenario) involves picturing yourself as a highly trained surgeon and then getting kidnapped by an attacker whose plan is to take you to a mad scientist where he will “hypnotize you to have a permanent mental block” which will cause you to lose all knowledge of medicine. Truly this would be an absolute detriment as your life would completely change: a loss of a career, potential loss of relationships with co-workers or family which in turn may cause a loss in happiness. English argues that this situation would have a justifiable outcome if you were to kill the attacker. English adds two more pieces of thought to this scenario.
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What should happen if you knew these attackers only came out at night and you went out for a walk with or without a self-defense weapon? Now, English does not give her opinion but rather states if you go out that night even though you know there are attackers, “you have no right to defend yourself.” The second with if your self-defense weapon fails, you “are obliged to the resulting injury, no matter how severe it is.” English parallels these with the view of abstinence and the second with the view of using contraceptives is allowable yet abortion is always wrong. She finishes the analogy off with the only way abortion could be justified all the time is being only able to kill the attacker “only if he will actually kill you, not if he will only injure you.” No more, English concludes that analogy right there. I find this to be very dull and uninformative. No mention on her take of these situations, just this is a viewpoint that would fit this scenario, and so on. This doesn’t contribute to her argument.
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That’s great that you can parallel a popular viewpoint out in the world to your analogy, but what does that contribute to your argument? I did not find this part of her argument to really follow through with much of her argument. The only way I see it contributing is to show how in depth her parallel can go, which I would agree with. In this paper I have analyzed Jane English’s argument from analogies for the view on if a fetus is a person, abortion is still permissible in many cases. I reveal the weakness of her analogies and thus her overall argument. There were parts of her argument I found to be false altogether. There were also parts where I found her argument to be strong and promising.
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An abortion is most typically defined as a premature termination of fetus from the uterus. In scientific terms, “An abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy. It uses medicine or surgery to remove the embryo or fetus and placenta from the uterus. The procedure is done by a licensed physician or someone acting under the supervision of a licensed physician” (Medline Plus). Upsides to this operation is helping women who are unable to care for a child or were raped continue their lives without an unwanted child, it should be a women’s right to be able to decide what happens to her body and her pregnancy.
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Most Christians and pro-life supporters believe that life begins at conception therefore it is a doing of murder which is against the Ten Commandments, a list of historical rules and laws written by their God. In the past, abortion was a normal procedure for women who had committed adultery but as time went on and ethics around the world changed, so were opinions on such topics as this. Scientifically, there is a difference between a human being and a living being. Bacteria, bugs, etc are all examples of living things but nobody is fighting for those rights?
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A fetus is not a human, even after conception. A fetus is simply the potential of a human life. Approximately 75% of conceptions result in a miscarriage according to 2014 statistics. By definition, a human being is a separate individual who relies on multiple others for survival while a fetus not only resides inside a woman, but relies on her and only her for a future life. Women all around the world have been fighting for gender equality for decades. Many countries have been quite successful including the United States, but there is still much more inequality that needs to be addressed. Abortion is a big controversy due to the fact that it is not only a life changing decision but because of the ethics and morality behind it. The right to an abortion is key for a woman to achieve her full potential. The approximate price of taking care of a baby in its first year is roughly $12,000.
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Many women can barely even afford to have an abortion, let alone care for a human life for another eighteen plus years. 2015 statistics say that about 18% of abortions are performed on teenagers. Teenagers who are still in school and have their whole lives ahead of them. Should one adolescent mistake obscure or possibly sabotage this? Teenagers are also more likely to miscarry during their pregnancy or have a complicated pregnancy. The medical risks of teenage pregnancies are very real for both the mother and the child. Lack of prenatal care (due to being pregnant unknowingly or embarrassed to tell someone) is necessary to prevent or predict birth defects, and high blood pressure is more common in pregnant teens than those in their twenties possibly causing premature birth and low birth baby weight. Most teenagers are not mature enough or even ready to mature for a child. It is in their best interest to keep abortion a safe and reliable option. A popular argument used by those who are against abortion is that adoption is a simple alternative.
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In Randie Bencanann’s article, “Adoption Is Not a Universal Alternative to Abortion, No Matter What Anti-Choicers Say” she explains that while working in the adoption acency for almost thirty years, she came out only supporting abortion more strongly. After seeing the abundant amount of children unable to find homes and how many of their mothers had been unable to go through with the procedure because of price or embarrassment. “Some women were, and are, able to get solace from providing a good home for their child and giving joy to new parents. Even so, though, the process also nearly always involved anxiety and long-term sadness.” (Bencanann). She stated that the feelings the mother had about setting their child up for adoption was very similar to the guilty feeling of an abortion but worse after having nine months to attach to them. There is a view called “gradualism” in which as the fetus develops further, people are more likely not to have an abortion due to personal feelings and ethical reasons, therefore making giving them up to strangers or people they don’t know too well much harder.
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According to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, “There are 423,773 children in the U.S. foster care system; 114,556 of these children are available for adoption. Their birth parent’s legal rights have been permanently terminated and children are left without a family”. Clearly, more children do not need to be added to these statistics. Adoption is not a bad decision of course, but I feel as though abortion should still be an option for the mother who may not want to get attached to their child just to give them up. A few other examples in which someone would not want to terminate their pregnancy due to ethical reasons include the right to life, abortion in self-defense and moral parenthood.
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Personally, I think that the positives outweigh these negatives. Women who are raped, or underage may not want to take care of a child. They may not have the means to fully support a child on their own and the amount of children in adoption and foster care is more than enough already. In other arguments, women should be entitled the right to their own body and what happens to it. A baby is a lifetime commitment that some women cannot handle. In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, women’s rights were becoming a more highly accepted thing, bringing in effect the controversial court case of Roe v. Wade. Two women, Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington who were recent graduates of The University of Texas Law, began fighting in support of pregnant woman Norma L. McCorvey, also known as Jane Roe. At this time abortion was extremely looked down upon and banned or avoided at all costs by most states. Roe was unable to afford leaving her state to one in which the procedure was accepted.
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Coffee and Weddington took it upon themselves to file a lawsuit against Henry Wade, a Dallas Country District Attorney. The case was eventually ruled unconstitutional because it was considered to be a woman’s “zone of privacy” and therefore protected by fundamental human rights. Roe v. Wade proved to be a huge accomplishment in both the women’s right movement and also pro-choice support. Before the court case Roe v. Wade in 1973, approximately five thousand women died per year due to unsafe abortions. Abortion legality allows women to attain the procedure at the correct time and in a safe and way. Today, it is a very safe and common procedure in the United States but in countries where abortion is illegal, people continue to perform it but in dangerous and harmful ways and in these countries it is the leading cause of effects on maternal mortality. Keeping abortion legal in the United States is the best and safest solution for women.
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The moral lesson on abortion has always frowned on taking human life without consent. However, in some complex situations, this abhorred practice is allowed and made valid. For example, events, where pregnancy is life-threatening, was contracted from rape, or incest could be some of the reasons why abortion may be resorted to. Therefore, the moral argument on abortion is a relevant subject of interest as it remains a controversial issue to debate about. As such, the stance of the law on abortion is important to help settle cases and to spell out terms and conditions that may apply.
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Human beings are expected to behave in a certain way to conform to a standard of morality in society. Aquinas claims that laws which conflict with the requirements of Natural law lose their power to bind morally. Plato, Cicero, and Aristotle shared the same sentiments. He expressed that if a ruler enacts unjust laws their subjects are not obliged to obey them except in certain special cases when it is a matter of avoiding ‘’scandal’’ or civil disorder.
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For the people of Ghana, for instance, our history does not support abortion no matter the situation so if there is a law that will bring abortion, it will not be a good law and in that case, it will degrade the moral structure. The second rule which is pro-choice was being explained as a decision taken by the woman whether to terminate the pregnancy or not. The woman has a right over her own body and she decides what to do with her body because the fetus lives within her body and she has absolute control to give birth or to end the pregnancy as in the case of
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Critical thinkers apply three different concepts when applying ethics to decision making. Set priorities, attempt to find additional options and alternatives, and negotiate options fully aimed or partially achieving the most important interest of all involved parties (Peter A. Facione). Considering our values, rights, and consequences we can assume abortion is and can be different according to one’s view or the view of others in the matter. After much research I wish I could say I have decided whether I think abortion is ok, but I am still on the fence about the topic.
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Those would be the overriding general principles. Of course, to use this approach, one would have to deﬁne “good consequence” and “bad consequence.” A common deﬁnition raises concepts of pain and pleasure, both largely deﬁned to include more than just physical pains and pleasures. Other possible criteria of goodness include the concepts of happiness, well-being, and beneﬁt. Take into consideration the physical and psychological trauma for women associated with abortion. “Which act will result in the best consequences (Group.
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)? If abortion heartens medical and phycological complications is it ethical? Take the case of baby Jane Doe for example. The case was a medical dispute on the proper care of severely handicapped children. A four-month-old infant from New York with severe medical issues and her parents choose not to treat the child for the said child’s best interest. That treating her and doing surgery would only prolong her suffering in her short life expectancy (Gary E. McCuen).
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Would it have been better to have aborted baby Jane before she was born with medical disabilities? The child was not able to speak for herself. Did the parents do this to end her suffering, or end their own financial responsibility as well as caring for a handicapped child? Does every human life have the same dollar amount (Peter A. Facione)? Utilitarianism, a systematic approach to ethical reasoning that deﬁnes morally right acts as those which result in the greatest good for the greatest number of all involved.
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Utilitarianism is one of the most powerful and persuasive approaches to normative ethics in the history of philosophy. A consequence-based approach is that intent is irrelevant. The consequence-based reasoning is that “the end justiﬁes the means” it does not matter how you bring about a good consequence, only that the consequence is indeed good. Can we really justify the willful destruction of human embryos by arguing that “the end justifies the means” (Group.)? Is it acceptable to undermine the dignity of human life in the name of medical progress (Torr)? So, if using an embryo for stem cell research will help us fight disease in the future or help couples have children with no disabilities make using embryos ethical? Is an embryo considered a life (Torr)? Purely in terms of consequence to that individual, there is no way to put greater value on the one than on the other (Peter A. Facione).
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Rights-based ethical reasoning involves determining whether an action is right or wrong according to whose and which rights are upheld or violated by the act in question. Such rights might include the right to free speech, the right to own property, the right to vote, the right to be free from harm, the right to go wherever you want, and so on. In this case, the general principles would be something like “One should respect the right of others too. . .” or “This action is wrong because it violates this person’s right to . . .” I suppose children have a right to a happy and healthy childhood. How can a have such rights if aborted? When taking a rights-based approach to ethical decisions, one must first decide what rights are involved (Group.). In the 1960s, there was no federal law regulating abortions, and many states had banned the practice entirely, except when the life of the mother was endangered. Abortion highlights the problem in terms of pro-life arguments and pro-choice arguments (ushistory.org). Did you know Pope John Paul II is a leader in the pro-life movement? During his landmark 1998 visit to Cuba, he criticized the island’s legalized abortion policies (ushistory.org). The Roe v.
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Wade case recognized the constitutional right to privacy extends to a woman’s right to make her own personal medical decisions, including the decision to have an abortion without interference from officials (ushistory.org). “Morality is dependent on your religion” or, “God tells you what to do.” Those who believe life begins at conception feel that the unborn child deserves the same legal protections as an adult. Ending such a life is equivalent to murder to those who subscribe to this belief (Group.). Others argue that life begins at birth and that laws restricting abortion interfere with the right of a woman to decide what is in her own best interests. (ushistory.org). Religious responsibility, who appointed you God? Who gave you the right to play God? Some people appeal to religion as the basis for their values. Alternatively, some people suggest that our rights are God-given.
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This answer, of course, does not satisfy those who don’t think there is a god. But even for those who do, it’s a bit problematic: how do you know which rights this god has given you? “The decision of whether to abort or not is mine and mine alone. I have the right to say what happens in my body! “And what about me? I’m the father! Don’t I have any rights? And that child-to-be? Doesn’t it have any rights?” “The ﬂight from the grey”: people can’t understand something in the simple terms of black and white, so they pretend it doesn’t exist or isn’t important. After all, doing that is much easier than entering the grey area, getting lost, getting confused, and getting frustrated with complexity and uncertainty (Group.). It is always easy difficult for anyone to give due consideration to alternative views and beliefs (Peter A. Facione).
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Values-based ethical reasoning involves determining whether an action is right or wrong according to whether or not the action in question adapts to certain values, such as truthfulness, responsibility, justice, temperance, courage, self-control, wisdom, fairness, pride, ambition, gentleness, frankness, self-interest, faithfulness, gratitude, compassion, self-improvement, non-maleficence, reparation, care, compassion, sensitivity, reciprocity, generosity, modesty, kindness, respect, patriotism, prejudice, equality, and so on (Group.).
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Evaluating arguments about ethical issues is no different from evaluating other sorts of arguments. when you are presented with an argument about an ethical issue, go through the same steps: identify the issue, identify the point, and identify the premises supporting that point (both those explicitly stated and those assumed); then evaluate the premises, considering whether or not they’re true or acceptable, whether or not they’re relevant, and whether or not they’re sufﬁcient to support the claim. Then decide whether the argument is strong enough for you to accept its conclusion, usually a judgment about whether something is right or wrong (Group.).
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Is it right to abort a child following all the premises? The best way to protect people from wrongdoing is to make the wrongdoing illegal? Ethics refers to a set of behavioral ideals or moral principles that guide us in determining right and wrong (Peter A. Facione). Some people believe abortion is a crime, and others consider it to be the free choice of the person. If we apply critical thinking and ethics when we decide on abortion does it make us assume abortion is ok?
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The issue of abortions for minor abnormalities and other special cases has continuously elicited debated over its legalization and how it can compromise the societal morals and ethics. The main proponents of these debates are religious institutions who back their arguments basing on rights and other factors. However, despite this uproar from some of the organizations and religious institutions, some countries have adopted laws that legalize abortions in some special cases. The common one is when the life of the mother is in danger.
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Therefore, this makes them cautious in their activities and ensures they conform to the set rules. However, with the ever-changing dynamics in the societal world, people have continuously disregarded classical ethical thoughts on the subject. Therefore, the issue of moral obligatory on abortion has been changing with time. People are now embracing the need to perform abortions when there are risks. However, it has also faced some confrontation from some religious institutions and some organization. This is also accompanied by the spread of misinformation on the phenomenon. From my point of view, abortions for defined special it is not compromising to the existing morals.
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This tricks down to the dilemma of whether it is permissible to perform an abortion on a defective fetus. On an impartial point, it is permissible with regards to the ethical codes if the fetus is maybe dead. This is done mainly to save the life of the mother. However, if it has some abnormalities but alive and does not pose any challenge to the mother nor its growth, and a practitioner did the abortion that will be against the set ethical codes. This is because some abnormalities can be rectified using medical technologies thus by doing so it will be against human dignity. However, for a defective fetus that will probably die within some few days, the medical practitioners will highly recommend an abortion. This is because it might pose a health challenge to the mother in the future. With an agreement with the patient, this does not conflict the existing moral laws in the society. It is medically also advisable since if the practice is not carried out, we might end up losing both the mother and the fetus. Thus, it is better if one was life was saved.
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Another dilemma that surrounds this phenomenon when the fetus will live with problems and also it will continue causing problems in the family in its lifetime. On this, the decision of the mother or the patient takes center stage (Warren, 1984). One, no one is very sure of the future, but we can probably predict what will happen. Medical practitioners may advise the patient with a different perspective that will not be pleasing to the patients. The patients may also opt to take their doctors advice or not. The question of moral and ethical adherence in such a situation is at stake. This leaves the patient at the liberty to make a decision. With the existing ethical codes, there lacks a clear directive with a concrete constitute on how to deal with the situation perfectly.
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Abnormalities There has been uproar over reported cases of abortion in on the fetus with a cleft lip. However, as far as some countries such as Britain permit abortions on some minor cases, this cannot be justified in all situations where one regards it as minor (Lawrence, 2007). The existing laws have not established appropriate regulation with regards to permissible situations. There is a gap because it does not define precisely the exceptional cases. However, some cases can be treated through surgery such as cleft lip. This, therefore, regards an abortion due to the cleft lip on the fetus against ethical codes. This also applies to any condition that can be treated after birth.
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Some studies in India have shown that sex selection is high in India and has led to an increasing loss of girls through abortions. This also explains the imbalance in population and the male constitute the larger part of the population. This practice cannot be justified though it faces a lot of challenges with the advancement of technology. Ultrasound machines are now potable thus making them hard to monitor. However, this practice does not conform to the existing ethical codes in the country nor globally. Most who engage in sex-selection abortions also fail to give a justifiable reason on their choice.
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Female feticide, especially in India, is attributed to the low population of female that men. In India, it is the act of aborting a female fetus without adhering to the existing laws. Don Marquis (1989) argues that the practice is immoral and unethical since it terminates the future of a person. There exist no substantial constitute that can justify female feticide without conflicting with existing ethics and morals (Amin, 2014). With this regards, the practice should be heavily fought with intensified campaigns to sensitize people on its problems and also enforcing existing laws.
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An abortion aimed at eliminating fetus that has Down syndrome symptoms has continuously received a fight from the society. Down syndrome does not curtail one from realizing personal goals in life. There are also ways that can be used to treat the condition through diagnosis. Most parents opt to abort due to their anxieties. However, this is against human dignity. Moreover, the continuing campaign efforts to sensitize parents on the phenomenon should be embarked heavily. Despite one possessing the s, syndromes one’s future remains lighted. Therefore, worries on the babies’ future should not be a justifying reason to carry out an abortion.
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The argument about abortion, and whether or not it should be legal, has been a prevalent topic of controversy for decades. Abortion has always been a sensitive subject to discuss, as people are hard set in their viewpoint on the matter. The two viewpoints on whether or not abortion should be legal has divided society into two contradicting categories. While the abortion epidemic is not settled in our own country, I will be examining the viewpoints taken by Europeans and how this debate is affecting other countries.
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This study analyzes Europe’s current trends and previous history involving abortions. However, people in Europe are still undergoing drastic measures to have abortions because not everybody has access to a safe, clean abortion clinic. This is obviously a major public health problem and causes concern among individuals. David claims that the way to prevent this problem is to create more pro-abortion laws that demand accessible medical clinics. He supports this idea with statistics stating that European countries with legal abortion laws have lower abortion rates.
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In Thomas Schirrmacher’s online article “Human Rights Threatened In Europe: Euthanasia, Abortion, Bioethics Convention” (2001), he claims that people’s lives are being belittled by new trends being set in Europe. He threatens that human life is being threatened as a whole. First, the author examines new technology emerging in Europe that can dissect the embryo of a baby while it is still inside the mother. Mothers are being used as ‘test subjects’ for ‘research’ because they generally do not know what is happening to them. Schirrmacher also refers to religion in his article. He states that God gives everyone the natural right to life and that killing a human before birth is immoral and a sin. The author is bias towards the idea of pro-life, given the fact that he refers to abortions as “legally killing and wrong.” He is writing to other pro-life advocates who share his same ideas.
Topic: abortion

In Marianne Githens’ online journal publishing “Reproductive Rights and the Struggle with Change in Eastern Europe (1996), she defines the conflicts that Eastern Europeans’ are undergoing when facing abortion rights. She first supports her claims by discussing the lack of abortion rights in Eastern Europe. One example includes certain countries, such as Poland and Hungary, that have banned abortion. Poland currently has a law stating that women can have an abortion if the child if life-threatening or causes the mother serious injury, however many citizens are afraid to ask for an abortion because of the penalties associated with it. Mothers can be sentenced to prison for undergoing the procedure and doctors can lose their license for practicing abortions. Githens draws attention to the issues involving abortion in Eastern Europe.
Topic: abortion

In Patrick Flood’s online article “Abortion and the right to Life in Post-Communist Eastern Europe and Russia” (2002), he claims that Eastern Europe is making drastic improvements towards a more pro-choice society. He backs up his assertions by disclaiming that a few years prior, all of Eastern Europe was full of survivors who dealt with communist and Nazi totalitarianism, so the idea of abortion was absurd because everybody was so appreciative of life. However as years passed and the idea of abortion became more practical, laws preventing abortion have slightly changed. For example, there are plenty of pro-choice women groups emerging in Eastern Europe, an act that would have previously imprisoned a women. Flood concludes his article by stating that abortion rights are not as liberal as the United States, but are a major improvement for Eastern Europe as a whole.
Topic: abortion

In Igor Kon’s online article “Sexual Culture and Politics in Contemporary Russia (2005), he states that Russia is undergoing an epidemic stemming from the lack of sexual education provided by the government. She states that since the Russian Communist Party is associated with the Russian Orthodox Church and is supported by numerous pro-life groups, the government has deliberately steered away from the idea of teaching sex education. This, respectively, has caused numerous health problems including the widespread of STDs and the increase of unsanitary abortion practices. The lack of sex education leaves Eastern Europeans unaware of the negative consequences sexual intercorse may have.
Topic: abortion

After exploring a multitude of sources, I have discovered many pertinent points made for each viewpoint on the topic of abortion. The pro-choice viewpoint illustrates the importance of women having access to clean and safe abortions. When women have to covertly get an abortion procedure, they face many health complications and sometimes an incomplete operation. The sources discuss how many women get the procedure done in secret simply because they are afraid of the repercussions. In countries with the most drastic abortions laws, these repercussions can even include death. The sources declare that if women had access to safe and sterile operations and weren’t facing such harsh consequences, the abortion rate would actually decrease. Just knowing that they have the ability to choose what happens to their body will allow women to rethink their decision before doing it out of impulsivity. The sources that are pro-life argue that life is a very valuable thing and should be treasured above all else. As parts of Europe were involved in the genocide of the Holocaust, their views on life have become that of appreciation and gratitude. There are also sources that state that women who get abortions are considered “test subjects” in some countries as they are ignorant to the full extent of what is happening to them.
Topic: abortion

Many sources that are pro-life also address the religious aspect of the matter, stating how God wouldn’t create a life form if it wasn’t intended to be born. They reiterate that God does everything with a purpose and that the said baby is here for a specific reason. Through researching this topic, I am able to see the thought process of both viewpoints. There are many articles that depict the substantial controversy surrounding this topic. Viewpoints on abortions and its moral implications are an objective matter, however most women are unable to take objective action. This topic will remain relevant for decades to come as it previously has. The smartest way to come to a conclusion on how to feel about the subject is to research both sides and determine which one is more justifiable.
Topic: abortion

Abortion is one of the most divisive topics in society and has been for many years. There are many parts to pro-choice whether people realize it or not. Women have every right to choose what she wants to do with her body for the next nine months whether she will save the fetus or abort it. Pro-life supporters do not consider what the mother goes through those nine months she will be carrying the fetus, they just label her as a tramp for opening up her legs.
Topic: abortion

Pro-life supporters should learn more about why the mother choices to abort instead of labeling her for something they don’t know the story about. Abortion is when a pregnancy is ended so that the birth of a child won’t occur. There are different types of abortion. There are two types of medical abortion, there is the abortion pill also known as early medical abortion. This abortion pill involves taking medication to cause an early miscarriage, then after nine weeks of gestation, the women will need to visit the clinic two times and doesn’t involve any anesthesia or surgery process.
Topic: abortion

This surgical abortion can only be done up to the fourteen weeks of pregnancy and done with local anesthesia. The recovery for this part is quicker which means you can leave the clinic unattended and drive sooner so no one would have to go with you and the women won’t feel so judged for her decision. Dilation and evacuation are carried out with general anesthesia. The pregnancy is removed by using narrow forceps that pass through the neck of the womb and some gentle suction. Most abortions take place during the first trimester of the pregnancy so you are not killing a baby since it isn’t fully developed yet. Pro-choice supporters believe in the right and the idea that women should have the choice to do what she pleases with her own body. In addition is a woman is rapped by and man and becomes pregnant with his child she should be able to decide if she wants to keep the baby or she has an abortion because the idea of having the constant memory of the horrible event that happened to her to be in life for the next nine months because it will be too painful for her to cope with. The baby would serve as a reminder of the rape.
Topic: abortion

Women should not be harassed by being called murderers because of the choice she made about her body and the changes she would go through if she continues throughout her pregnancy. That is what pro-life supports and they all support the idea that every child has a right to live, even if the mother is not financially able to support the child and herself. A girl that is too young and her reproductive system has not fully matured, and possibly she wanted to actually keep the baby but she and her child could die since she isn’t fully prepared to bear a child. Although women have come a long way to earn rights they are still oppressed for decisions that they choose. Women who have religious views are usually against abortion by any means. They attack the subject abortion by arguing that abortions are murder because the child has a heartbeat and a chance for survival outside the womb. Also, that once a woman becomes pregnant and the fetus has a heartbeat it is already a child and should not be aborted. A lot of women who are not fully prepared to have a child and become pregnant do not end up doing abortion because of their religion. In the religion, Christianity abortions are considered homicide.
Topic: abortion

Most pro-life supporters sometimes find themselves in this situation where abortion is necessary. Is risking the mother’s life over religion and your point of views worth the cause of her death because she simply didn’t want to abort her fetus. How can we say that this country is based on freedom when women cannot be able to abort and do what she pleases with her body. It is not up to the government to choose that for women because in one’s life is going to be affected but hers. Abortion should remain legal because legalizing it can cause women to go to places that can put her at risk of her life. It is a right for women to make a decision over her body since every woman should be able to have a legal right to do so. The Texas restrictive abortion laws obey the letter of the law but place an undue burden on women seeking to terminate their pregnancy often leading to the woman to go to another state and possibly paying more than she would if her state would legalize abortion.