Stephen Schwarz's The Moral Question Of Abortion

Abortion has been and still is a major argumentative topic in the world today. The basis of its morality has been argued countless times in our government and society throughout the years. The only way that this question can be answered is by defining if an unborn child is a human or just a cluster of tissue. Because an unborn child is human, abortion can be defined as a process that is morally and ethically wrong. Amongst other things, pro-abortionists do not ever consider the psychological damage that this procedure does to the woman’s mind. The United States’ Republican Party is fed up with this barbaric procedure and has decided to implement several bills in order to remove this from our country if their next presidential candidate is elected.

In this book, Schwarz discusses the idea that a fetus’ size, level of development, environment, and dependency on others to survive does not determine if it is human or not. Because it is obviously known that a fetus is smaller than a newborn baby, people use this fact to justify the right to kill the fetus. However, the size of a person does not determine if it is a human or not. People all over the world are born with many different heights and weights; therefore, this does not mean that a bigger person is considered more of a human than someone who is smaller in stature. Many people also try to argue that it is acceptable to kill a fetus because it is not as developed as a newborn baby is. This argument is insignificant because personhood and humanity are not determined by a person’s level of physical or mental development. If this were true, then a toddler would be considered less of a human than an adult. People also attempt to justify abortion by saying that the fetus cannot be considered a human because it is still living inside the womb. However, a person’s individuality cannot be determined because of the environment that they’re living in, otherwise someone who was to move from inside a car into a building would be considered more of a human; however, we know for a fact that this is not the

Although it’s a fact that rape is a disturbing experience for any person, another traumatic experience caused by aborting a baby cannot make the event of having been raped any less traumatic. Abortions do not end in the operating room, but have long lasting psychological, emotional and physical effects on those women who choose to have the procedure done. It is also inhumane to make the defenseless fetus suffer consequences for the crime that its father committed. It is a better decision to place the child up for adoption than to abort it prematurely if the rape has overly affected the mother so much so that she is psychologically unable to raise the child because it reminds her of her disturbing experience. People continually say that a woman has the right to make decisions over her own body but it is nobody’s right to kill an innocent, defenseless, unborn baby whose own personal rights are being violated just because it might have developmental problems or because the parents did not plan on having