Marquis Why Abortion Is Immoral Analysis

An evaluation of Marquis’ “Why Abortion Is Immoral” (Marquis 1989, 183-202) is in demand. Mostly, the article is presumably unbiased in representation of the contrasting stances, of pro-choice and anti-abortion viewpoints. However, Marquis easily eludes further depictions of certain criteria, as to this being on purpose, simply a mere convenience, or accidental, not all of the argumentative views are very strong. To explicate, several of the countless debates on abortion, Marquis’ article “Why Abortion Is Immoral” (183-202) gives a mostly neutral perspective, to the endless opposing sides of the arguments. Moreover, the article equates the anti-abortionist’s viewpoint-against abortion, as well as the pro-choice stance-supports abortion,

Moreover, Marquis claims, “For although it is clear that a fetus is both human and alive, it is not at all clear that a fetus is a human being” (185). To better clarify, one may only assume that an unborn fetus is actually a human being. Whereas, for an adult being innocent, does a person like this exist! Who determines if a fetus would possibly have a potential future like ours? Certainly, this is a huge debate among people regardless of their stance on pro-choice or anti-abortion. If Marquis bases his claim from the assumption that an unborn-fetus is an actual human being, then he is wrong. Therefore, it is undeterminable as to whether or not the fetus-potential human, alive inside of the womb, would even eventually have a possible future like ours. Moreover, this contradicts Marquis’ claim, as well as the anti-abortionist stance, that an abortion is

However, in the 1970’s abortion in the United States became legal, which limited the potential future of those fetus’ that would have had a possible future like ours. This significantly affected Americans and their futures. With study on abortion and crime rates it is found that “Crime began to fall roughly 18 years after abortion legalization” (Donohue and Levitt 2000). Though abortion takes away from the fetus, the potential future it may have had, the loss of victims significantly decreased, throughout the nation. So instead of the concern of the potential futures, think of all of the crime and lives that are not lost because of the sacrifice of the aborted fetus. In the United States, “those with the highest rates of abortion in the 1970s experience the sharpest drops in crime in the 1990s” (Barro 1999). Even though those potential fetus’ lives are lost, the lives that are not abruptly taken away, are able to endure a life with less