Abortion And Women's Rights Analysis

For many years, there has been the constant argument over the stance of abortion, whether the rights of the unborn override the right of choice for a woman. The sources for both sides of the argument, “The Wrong of Abortion” by Patrick Lee and Robert P. George advocating for the rights of the unborn, while on the other side Marianna Karakoulakis, “Abortion and Women’s Right’s in the U.S.A supports the rights of the women. Lee and George’s article articulates how an embryo is to be considered a human and that it 's right to life prevails the women 's right to choose. In contrast, Karakoulakis argues that a woman’s right to chose has become a civil liberties issue that needs to be understood by the public as the right side of the abortion debate. Through these two articles, there will be an analysis and summary of both sides of the abortion dispute and which one presents the best argument. In Lee and George 's article, they argue that every human has a right to life and that an embryo right to life outweighs a woman’s right to chose. They argue that from the moment of fertilization, that the a human embryo should be human being and to terminating that human is morally unacceptable and should be illegal. The first premise presented in the article is that an embryo is a whole and complete organism, even if it’s immature. The argument follows so that it explains that this embryo has the potential to become a human being at early stages of development. Then to the third premise, which is implicit, that killing a human being is unethical in order to connect to the final statement that abortion is killing a human being at early stages of development. All of this connects to their implicit conclusion that abortion should be illegal. Although their argument is well put together, they don’t elaborate what exactly is a human being and its characteristics. As well as how and when an embryo develops these features and characteristics that are attributed to human beings specifically. From this point on, aborting would be considered a killing of a human being and should not be permissible within law or morally. In …show more content…
In contradiction to Lee and George’s argument, Karakoulakis argues that as a result of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that knowingly emphasizes that “all human being are born free” in a way that life starts at birth. She dissects the lawful aspect of abortion in the United States and the historical background as well as the birth control mandate. Her argument starts out with the implicit premise that women have the right to control her own body. She then goes on to point out that by denying this right it is taking away the freedom of personal choice. This freedom exceeds the rights of the unborn. This all leads to her explicit premise that abortion should be legal in this country. Despite the fact that this is a well thought out argument, throughout the article she never really explains why a woman has a right of choice over her body over the fetus’s right to life. If she went into more detail about what exactly gives this right to a woman and why it’s more important than a fetus’s birthright than the argument would flow better and allow the reader to understand the