To The Pro-Life Side Of The Article: Should Abortion Be Legal?

Ethics of care is another moral theory that applies to the pro-life side of the abortion argument. This moral theory is about maintaining concrete relationships and it strongly values the concepts of sympathy, compassion, love, and care. In the article, Should Abortion be legal, the nonprofit organization, ProCon.org presents that,”Abortion eliminates the potential societal contributions of a future human being.” ("Should Abortion Be Legal?). The possibility of this happening due to an abortion, goes completely against the main focus of ethics of care. The child that is being aborted will never have the chance to form relationships with many different people and won’t be able to impact a single person’s life besides the mother. The child could …show more content…
Therefore, they do not have the right to tell pregnant women that they are not allowed to have an abortion for any reason. Ethical egoism is pertinent to my position on the controversy of abortion as well. Women are capable of deciding what is most fitting for them and most suitable for their current lifestyle. In cases where the doctors know the fetus has has a disability that would require full time help from the mother or when carrying the baby to full term is dangerous for the woman than she deserves to do what is in her best self interest and sometimes that is abortion. The final moral theory that is relevant to my opinion of abortion is Hobbes’s social contract theory. With the passing of the Roe vs. Wade supreme court decision, abortion has become a part of our “social contract.” This means that abortion is moral in regard to the social contract or Constitution in the United States. Several of the distinctive moral theories that we have learned throughout the semester are the basis to my personal assessment that the pro-choice or liberal side of the abortion argument, is the side that I agree