The Abortion Debate

The topic of abortion often acts as a magnet, polarising an argument, and rather than picking direct sides, people’s responses will fall on a spectrum from “Pro-life” to “Pro-choice”, often not picking one over the other. Even people who say they support the same idea, say feminism, can support either side and use their shared an idea to support opposing arguments. With all the discussion of abortion, people on both sides can see arguments made by opposition. In most US states, abortions are legal, but people who get them are still seen with a stigma, and some governments who have approved of apportions in their states build needless opticales making it harder to get one. Evenso, regardless of one's personal opinion, the act of getting an abortion

In different cases abortion could be the solution to prevent further wrongdoing, and the doctrine of double effect causes an action that could be morally questionable to be the right option in a situation. A majority of women who get abortions say it is because of the fear of what would happen after having the child. Whether it be about trying to support them financially or mentally, how a child would affect their education/career, or simply not being ready in general for a child; to these women, not having the child at all is the preferred option even if the abortion has it’s own drawbacks. These drawbacks include the stress and possible depression from making the decision to abort a child, and the possible health risks that come with the pills and/or operations needed for an abortion, and the possibility of not being able to have a child in the future when they might want a child. For an example, a women who was raped and exposed to abuse would chose to abort her unborn child and handle the health risks and stress caused from the depression, if it in turn, her abortion helps ease her depression caused by the conception of the child and the abuse she endured. Abortion is not an easy choice, but it is supported by the doctrine of double effect and a decision made using that principle is a gray decision rather than black or white. It all depends on perspective and case by

There are some families that manipulate one another into conceiving a child, then use that unborn children as a means to their end of keeping the family together. This itself is not healthy for their relationship, and the child’s upbringing. If to their parents they were a pawn, the child was not ethically brought into the world. Using the doctrine of double effects to compare actions in this case, having an abortion would be ethically right because the result of a broken family without a child opposed to an outcome where there is a child in the slew of things would be the preferred