Abortion is the deliberate termination of a pregnancy. It is an ethical issue in today’s society that can be seen from two angles, morally right and morally wrong. The subject of abortion is likely to cause arguments as both sides of the argument have strong points. The main argumentative point that disagree with abortion is that it is wrong to kill innocent human beings as life begins at contraception, this means that a foetus is a human being which means killing it would be wrong, meaning that abortion is wrong. Another argument against abortion is that allowing abortion is “legalising killing and legalising killing reduces peoples respect for life” (Levitt, 2005). Reducing the societies respect for life is a bad thing as it could cause and increase in murder rates. Therefore abortion is always wrong. I find these arguments weak as the first argument is repetitive and continuously states that ‘killing is wrong’ which it is however “before 18 weeks old a baby is nothing but a bundle of cells with no pain receptors meaning that the termination of a pregnancy would not be painful for the foetus” (BBC, 2014). The second argument …show more content…
Sometimes we may have to push our principles aside and do the right thing. Considering utilitarianism and situation ethics are extremely similar situation ethics views abortion differently to utilitarianism. The similarity between the two is that they both say that you should “act in the best interest of those affected” (BBC, 2014). Situation ethics states that it is in our best interests to have a family and to educate future generations, this can sometimes not be achieved though as in some circumstances the mother of the child may have been raped or might know that if the baby is born it will not have a life that would be worth living due to financial difficulty or disability. Abortion should however not be used as a method of birth control as it had been is a number of