Plato's Theory Of Abortion

The dependence for welfare will be increased, as well as housing and food stamps, especially for single women and teenagers who are forced to keep a child. The politicians and pro-life supporter’s main stance against abortion consists of preservation of life; and their Christianity belief that abortion is an act of murder.

According to a CNN article, “In the early centuries the business of abortion, was freely advertised on newspapers and around communities with no known outrage. It was not until the 1900’s did it become a debate. Ever since the 1900’s, the government has infringed on women’s rights” (Ravitz). Since then it was a privately own booming business, for so call “bush doctors” skilled using herbs. The government saw this was

While both had their own concepts of its development, one can agree that both concepts comes from the super natural spiritual world. According to Paul Kleinman, “Plato developed his theory of Forms. Plato states that reality exists on two specific levels: 1. The Visible world that is made up of sights and sounds. 2. The intelligible world (the world of Forms) that gives the visible world it’s being.” (16) He believed that the soul exists without the body, and that we obtain wisdom from our thoughts and therefore we inherit this at the start of conception. Plato thinking were based on the divine being, who he believes made us, and the objects of the world. He believed, the soul was already formed, as what we see here on earth is just a reflection of what is already made. While Aristotle, did not believe Plato’s thinking of the Forms, his thinking was that the soul is not made of a form of objects that that’s on the shape of a material thing, but consists of the same higher substance or spiritual being in his metaphysics theological thinking. For Aristotle, the world beyond is where the physical immortal substance exists, and is developed through the belief that there is a higher being that gives us our soul. Based on Aristotle theories on human development, he has played a major role in bioethics. Bioethics is another branch of philosophy and biology, the study of living things. In reference to James Fieser from applied ethics, “Aristotle held a position now called delayed hominization: human fetuses only gradually acquire their souls, and in the early stages of pregnancy the fetus is not fully human”. (utm.edu). Delayed hominization, specifies that a fetus does not acquire the characteristics of a human being, which comes from a connection of the soul and body, is his reasoning agreeable stance on abortion. Proc-choice activists would often reference this ancient Greek