Analysis Of Margaret Olivia Little's The Moral Permissibility Of Abortion

life. This theory is reflected in her text that reads, “I have argued that you are not morally required to spend nine months in bed, sustaining the life…but to say this is by no means is to say that if, when you unplug yourself, there is a miracle and he survives, you then have a right to turn around and slit his throat.”

Margaret Olivia Little’s “The Moral Permissibility of Abortion” much like that Judith Jarvis Thomson’s agues over the decent and indecencies of abortion. She comes to a similar conclusion that, “no abortion in early term is ever unjust, though they can be indecent.” Little covers the impact on women throughout a pregnancy and when abortions are sought ‘for the sake of the undeveloped human, and concludes that, “a potential

mother in a similar circumstance would have a moral obligation to abort, which she argues reveals a moral gray space between moral permissibility and moral obligation.”
Sidney Callahan’s “A Case for Pro-life feminism” argues that the abortion moment actual “undermines the interest of woman, by setting them back in the standards of equality. She states that, “some responsibility are determined by circumstance, not choice.” She concludes the argument by reiterating, “full social equality is a shared goal, but abortion undermines it…”
Rosalind Hurthouse’s “Virtue Theory and Abortion” defends that the Virtue Theory “provides a clear way to think about the moral issue of abortion.” Hurthouse’s chalks up casually aborting humans as “light-minded and callous.” She claims that parenting and the family unit “are ‘essential…’ to human existence.” She concludes that not giving abortion serious though could be the down fall of the human society.
Edward A. Langerak’s “Abortion: Listening to the Middle” provides a thoughtful approach where he examines the four stages of an undeveloped human. These stages are