Janet Harris Arguments Against Abortion

Abortion has become virtually inaccessible to the average woman in the United States. The American government has passed over 280 abortion bans since 2011, the most recent and compelling being the bill that restricts hospitals and clinics around the country from receiving any federal assistance for carrying out abortions. These restrictions have forced a multitude of abortion clinics to shut down. Consequently, with diminishing accessibility and essentially no resources to support abortions in the country, the pro-choice movement is losing it’s gumption. Many people are looking for ways to boost the campaign’s momentum again. Janet Harris is one of these people. She is proposing to simply disregard the adjective “difficult” when discussing

Now, Ms.Harris is suggesting outright ignorance and simply turning a blind eye. According to Harris, the problem is that the word, difficult “puts the focus on the fetus rather than the woman” in the abortion debate. She is advising to deny the existence of moral complications altogether by omitting the adjective “difficult”, which “implies a moral issue requiring an ethical debate” about the life and death of the fetus. However, how can we outrightly ignore science? Science dictates that “from the moment of conception—when a sperm meets, and fertilizes, an egg—the unborn are fully living, genetically distinct, and biologically self-directing autonomous individuals of the species Homo sapiens­­—i.e., human beings.” Modern medicine, specifically embryology, is very clear about this. Unborn humans at various stages may be smaller, weaker, less-developed, stranger-looking, more helpless, and less personable than other human beings, but this does not make them any less human. Keith Moore, an esteemed embryologist, argues that "Human development begins after the union of male and female gametes or germ cells during a process known as fertilization (conception)."Fertilization is a sequence of events that begins with the contact of a sperm (spermatozoon) with a secondary oocyte (ovum) and ends with the fusion of their pronuclei (the haploid nuclei of the sperm and ovum) and the mingling of their chromosomes to form a new cell. This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being." Consequently, in a debate that argues about the life of a living being, shouldn't the focus be on the living being, the fetus? Harris can