Utilitarianism On Abortion

Abortion should be allowed in rape cases all over the world. In America and other countries, victims of rape suffer from being forced to bear the children of their rapists in large due to the abortion ban in many countries. In the United States, National polls conducted since 1970 consistently has shown that at least 70% of Americans support abortion access for rape victims and while 25% oppose it. Also, the majority of people believe that it could be Prochoice where the victim is given a choice if they would like to abort or not. Internationally, there has been campaigning to increase abortion access to war time rape victims and also United Nations secretary endorsed this notion that rape victims should have a safe abortion access. Another

It is a “form of consequentialism: the right action is understood entirely in terms of consequences produced.” The one with better consequence is most likely to be a good choice. This theory can be applied to understand the legalization of abortion. It is concerned mostly with the amounts of pleasure and pain. It would state that abortion would not be a safe alternative because its primary focal point will be in the pursuit of the fetus. It will say it will have more happiness in future lives if it becomes alive and also that abortion can be painful, especially if the abortion occurs later in the pregnancy. Withal, this focus on the fetus is unjustifiable because any suffering involved in abortion itself can be warded off by simply aborting the pregnancy sooner where the fetus has not been fully developed capable of hurting or using painless techniques during an abortion to avoid the suffering. A problem with this theory is that it thinks too high for humanity and lack of time. You cannot always act for the benefit of the society as a whole in mind because women who was raped is already under so much pain and traumatized. She could be just a minor and cannot still understand too high for humanity. At that point, her family will be thinking aborting the child under various circumstances such as that cannot bear the child and her future will

Deontology is based on duty and how we are compelled to do the correct thing, disregarding of the results. Kant focuses on how we should merely act in a way that recognizes the objective importance of every other individual. Kant thinks suicide is wrong because he thinks “Man is god’s property, it is wrong to treat oneself as a thing and it cannot be moral to remove morality from the world” (Class notes, Kant 2) which means Kant would believe in pro-life position. The pro-life are people who argue that it is a murder to kill an innocent human being, fetus is a human being, and that is a criminal offense to defeat a human fetus. Another belief would be that the fetus has any future rights to self-freedom, but, a fetus does not have that self-consciousness that would tell their freedom to take over control of their existence. Pro-life suggests that a fetus is merely an earlier stage of a human being, but from the scientific point of perspective, pregnancy from 0-18 weeks (fetus) is in a vegetable state and is not moral patient since it is does not self-consciousness, abortion can be justified. According to Kant, it is only moral worth