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Ethics Of Abortion

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According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2011) “philosophers have turned their attention to the ethics of reproduction, they have mostly focused on abortion.” There are other ethical issues that exist as it relates to pregnancy, birth and medicine but abortion has been an age old topic that has been debated over and over again, regarding whether or not it is ethical. Abortion is defined by NHS Choices as the “medical process of ending a pregnancy so it does not result in the birth of a baby.” There are also a few reasons as listed by NHS Choices, as to why women may choose to have an abortion which are; “personal circumstances – including risk to the wellbeing of existing children, a health risk to the mother as well as a high …show more content…

This ethicist would definitely tell the woman to keep the child as abortion would be unethical and immoral. Duty based theories suggest that committing murder is wrong and based on these beliefs, abortion is viewed in quite the same way (Fieser n.d). Having an abortion, despite the reason under any circumstances is unacceptable. The woman, not yet a mother but has a duty to the unborn child to love, care and protect its interests and in this case the main interest would be life. Based on duty ethics, it would be wrong to take away great opportunities from that child as no one knows the future, so one is not able to tell who that child could potentially become. Abortion would only rob the child of those …show more content…

This ethicist would view putting the feelings of the woman over the child. The child would have been spared possible pain and suffering and this would be the right and moral action to take. This may be right but right for whom? Was the decision made with only the woman in mind or the unborn child? Who benefits from such a decision? The consequentialist sees this as morally right because the consequence or result of the abortion would be favorable at the same time there would be no sacrifice made for the child. Virtue and duty ethicist would be looking more at the child and who he/she could potentially be and the value that could be added to the mother’s

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However this fuels the social attitude in which women must seek permission, when many consider abortion to be a right which all women should have access too. This poses the question of if limiting the rights of women is ever justifiable in the best interests of the baby, the roman catholic church argue that a foetus is a person from the moment of conception this means that they to are entitled to the same rights of the mother and to have an abortion is to murder a living being. From this perspective it is apparent that they argue it is justifiable to put the rights of the foetuses; despite this point when a foetus is though to gain rights is a key point to this argument. As personhood would determine when a foetus is able to gain rights, although critics would argue that even still this does not warrant them to have the same full rights that the mother would

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Additionally, rational women should have the right to decide if they want to keep or abort the child, as she is the best person to judge whether the child is a price that can be paid. Advances in abortion cases today support this argument, with young girls who are too immature to be fully supporting mothers, the decision to abort is more rational. This freedom of choice reflects the mother’s moral right, who has a fully developed consciousness regarding abortion. Thus, in my opinion, due to the lack of the foetus’s moral status is more important. The first-trimester foetus is shown to lack moral status, as it is not able to function in a moral community; it is instead only genetically human, making it morally permissible to have an abortion.

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