Fetus

Legally abortion is not murder and cannot be perceived as so because the fetus is not even aware of its life. Sarah Dutton states that “A fetus does not have the capability of sensing pain due to the fact that their neural development has not yet matured enough for a connection between the cerebral cortex and thalamus to allow the fetus an acknowledgement of pain”, therefore it does not harm the child. Murder is classified as the killing of another human…

life of an innocent person. The Bible also does not recognize the difference between an unborn child and a child that is born; this tells us that the Bible would consider any form of abortion as taking an innocent life. When one determines that the fetus is a person and therefore is considered an innocent life, the argument surrounding the morality of abortion becomes clear. “It seems likely, therefore, that church-based social networks among religious conservatives and Catholics provide the…

Abortion - Murder or a start to a new life As of 2014, 652,639 abortions are performed each year (MMWR). ¨An abortion is a medical or surgical procedure that deliberately ends a pregnancy before an embryo or fetus is born.¨ (Abortion). So bascically an abortion is a medical procedure that purposely ends a pregnancy before the birth of the child. Those who support abortion, trust that fetuses do not truly become a person until they are physically born and that babies should not come into the…

statuses of the fetus in regards to their humanity or personhood serve as pivotal points to the ongoing debate regarding the moral justifiability on the termination of a pregnancy. Through this, popular arguments often involve an attempt of denying the personhood of a fetus in comparison to ourselves, and if proven, would allow for the moral permissibility of abortion, and the converse for affirming the personhood of the fetus. In this, it would seem logical to conclude that the fetus during…

abortion to be permissible even if the fetus has a full right to life. Warren argues that there cannot be an argument for abortion if it is believed that a fetus has a full right to life, because an abortion would immediately dismiss this. In Warren’s argument, she focuses heavily on defining personhood and the moral status that coincides with it, and the lack of both in a fetus. I am going to argue on behalf of Warren, however adding the argument that a fetus does not have full moral status,…

Marquis argues that killing a fetus deprives it of a valuable future/future like ours, and concludes by saying abortion is not morally permissible. I agree with Marquis’ argument that it is wrong to kill a fetus through abortion because I believe that they have a valuable future as all humans do. While I agree with Marquis that majority of deliberate abortions are seriously immoral, I do believe that in some cases it is permissible. For instance, choosing to have an abortion after being sexually…

Many people who support abortion and oppose the justification given to the fetus as having the right to life, which is not deprived of the right of anybody. However, the main argument on this issue lies in whether the fetus has the right to life after the fertilized egg is formed or whether it has the right to live within a certain period of growth in the mother's body. "Everyone is given freedom to do whatever they want." (Levy 4). If the law restricts the abortion of pregnant women, are these…

Pro Choice vs. Pro Life There are many reasons on both sides of this issue of why people believe it is or is not okay to have an abortion. Many believe that it is a woman’s right to choose to end her pregnancy or not. The U.S. Supreme Court has declared that it is a right guaranteed by the Constitution. Many would also believe that in choosing to end her pregnancy, she is committing murder, and that although the child is unborn, it is still a living being with the same right to live as its…

adult. He also states that personhood begins at fertilization and direct abortions procedures are intended to terminate a fetus's life. Finnis states that even the zygote is already a person and not merely a potential person. The zygote, embryos, and fetus all have the same status as a person does. Even if the zygote is only a few cells it has potential to become a person. To end the life of a potential human and a human have the same morality. Tooley thinks that abortion is morally…

to life only if they are actively learning how to meet said qualifications. This new addition to the argument allows for the previous statements of Warren’s Personhood Qualifications to still be valid. An example of one of the statements is that a fetus still does not have a right to life because they do not meet the Personhood Qualifications, and they are not actively learning how to meet the personhood qualifications. On the other side, an infant, mentally disabled being, or any other being…