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Abortion, is it Right, Wrong, or Does it Matter?
Abortion, it is a sensitive topic. This subject has been a cause of debate for a few years now. It has two outcomes on two very different worldviews. One outcome is the continuation of a lifestyle and supposed rights of all females who simply are either too young or do not want to have a child. The other viewpoint is a little less attractive. This viewpoint states that it is the killing of an unborn baby simply because its life is unwanted by its mother. These viewpoints are headed by two groups known as pro-abortionists and pro-lifers.
The first and more popular view is that of pro-abortionists. The appeal of this view is that of woman’s rights, or more specifically the females right to choose being or not being a mother. Although there are more complicated arguments given such as incest or rape, it all comes down to the right to choose to have the baby or not. The argument for this case is simply a matter of the woman should choose what to do with her body and not any one else. However this is assuming that there is only one body involved, that of the mother’s. Many pro-abortionists state that it gives the woman their first major life decision that they make themselves, giving a sense of maturity and being in charge of their own life. The justification for this view is that the unborn are not human, or not persons. The evidence given to support such a view is given as follows. The fetus is not aware or conscience yet. With live semi-sentient beings have an awareness of their surroundings, even animals, some assume that a fetus has not become sentient yet, or better explained not human yet.
The second more serious view is that of pro-lifers. Those who hold the view of pro-life believe that in fact the unborn is human. They believe abortion is wrong for this reason. Although sometimes taken as a preference this view simply tells the one who holds it what is right or wrong, with the person still choosing whether they will do it or not. This is increasingly blurred in the eyes of our society due to a perverseness of culture. If they are right and the unborn are human, then the justifications of abortionists pale in comparison, simply because murder is frowned upon by any sane person. However if they are wrong then there is no need to justify abortion at all, because a woman should have the right to do with her body as she pleases. The justification of a pro-lifer is strictly that of philosophy and science, although many pro-lifers share a religious background, not all do and it is not a requirement of such a view. Their scientific proof is a simple yet effective one, the law of biogenesis. This law states that life comes from life. All animals reproduce after their own kind. Dogs birth dogs, birds birth birds, and so on and so forth. The pro-lifer comes to his or her decision based on this logic. They decide that a human give birth to a human, rather than something that later becomes human. Again to support the view that it is in fact human the moment it is conceived, they give four arguments that they say are the only differences between an unborn and a newborn. The first difference is size. The unborn are extremely small, almost non-existent for the first few weeks. The pro-lifers give this example to illustrate that this is a poor case. A dwarf is not less human than a basketball player, and we are not less human than a 7-foot man. The second and perhaps better argument is Level of development. It is observed that a fetus does not have a brain to begin with, it must develop it, and so abortionists will assume that it cant be human, after all it doesn’t have a brain. The pro-lifers assert this argument. A four year old is less developed than a fourteen year old. After all she doesn’t even have her reproductive system developed yet. However this does not make her less human. The third argument is environment. This argument claims how it is illogical to believe that the unborn become valuable outside the womb and are invaluable blobs of tissue inside it. It must be human before it comes out, rather than during its departure. After all a simple change in location doesn’t affect who you are, or what you are for that matter. Their last argument is that of dependency. The abortion argument states that the fetus is not human until it no longer needs to drain nutrients from the mother, until then it is a parasitic like growth. The Pro-life argument is that if dependency is a factor then people on insulin are not human and we can kill them as we please. Of course they are human and we can’t kill them but it gets their point across. As the arguement of awareness goes, then when you are asleep it is perfectly fine to kill you, because you are not aware or consience at this time, heck you can't even respond to your enviorment.
My conclusion was not reached until I determined the pro-life view was more logical than the abortionist one. The issue was not the right to choose like many pro abortionists make it. It was “are the unborn human?”. From what I’ve seen of my research they are. The primary justification for abortion is the mother’s right to choose. A mother should have the right to abort her pregnancy. But does a mother have the right to choose to abort her unborn child? Does a mother have a right to choose to terminate her newborn baby? We all realize that killing a newborn child is murder, but why is it murder? Because it is human, that’s why. This is also why it is also murder to abort a fetus, it’s a baby, it’s a human, no matter how convenient it is or how much stress it relieves it is still 100% human.