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The Pros And Cons Of Abortion

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In contrast, some people feel that women should have the right to choose abortion, they should have the power to manage a decision as significant as parenthood, since they are the one who suffer the burdens (Anderson 1). Moreover, Peter K. McInerney contradicts Marquis’s statement by saying that abortion is not wrong because “killing a fetus is morally very different from killing a normal adult human” (268). Fetuses are not the same as normal adult human and young infants as well, since “a fetus at an early stage of development has neither a mental life of feelings, beliefs, and desires nor a developed brain and nervous system” (McInerney 266). Therefore, killing a fetus is not morally wrong since the fetus does not have a “future like ours”
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