Don Marquis vs. Abortion

What is abortion? Abortion is killing a fetus inside a mother’s womb. According to Don Marquis, killing a fetus is morally impermissible. Marquis came up with an argument that views abortion as immoral and only in rare cases is it accepted. There are only a few rare cases that abortion is morally acceptable according to Marquis in his article, “Why Abortion is Immoral.” Marquis’s view on abortion is relatable because I am a woman and seeing as I am able to bare a child, I feel it is a women’s right to decide if abortion is permissible or not because it is her body and she has all the rights to her own body. Later described is FLO, one of Marquis’s arguments proving abortion is morally impermissible. I do not agree with the FLO argument. Marquis makes strong points, which can be agreeable, but in summary of Marquis’s arguments, he needs to have a more valid case of FLO.

Don Marquis created the FLO method and explains it in his article. The FLO method means a “future like ours.” Marquis says that killing a fetus would be denying him/her the opportunity for a future like ours. A fetus is a human being at the time of conception according to Marquis. Aborting the fetus would be taking away future experience’s that are valuable. He proposes strong points that trigger a human’s emotional sensitivity to murdering another human being. It is wrong to deprive a fetus of a life because they have potential futures as persons. From the time of conception a fetus has a potential future.

There are objections to Marquis’s principles such as, fetuses don’t have a future like ours, and they’re only potential. His reply to this particular argument was that, FLO is not used to bridge the gap between fetus and adult. A fetus has the same future pote...

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...ument irrelevant in his argument. I am personally pro- life and do not agree with abortion unless a women was raped and there were extenuating circumstances if the mother’s life was threatened. Marquis FLO argument isn’t valid enough to conduce to his entire theory. Marquis cannot see into the future and determine if a fetus will have a great future. If the pregnancy goes well and the fetus is born, then yes they are entitled to a future, but whether it will be like “ours” is unpredictable making Marquis point of FLO an invalid argument. Abortion is depriving a fetus of a future life in general. If Marquis would have said this instead I would be more willing to agree with his theory. Abortion is morally impermissible because at the end of the day, it is murder. A fetus will grow to be a human with organs and a brain and have some type of future whether good or bad.