Argumentative Essay On Abortion

“In Twenty-first Century America, there are two classes of human beings, one protected by constitutional law and the other not. Human beings fully protected by constitutional law are those individuals who have already been born, and are recognized in law as persons. The second group consists of the unborn, which can be defined as the unborn human being from the time of its creation, in or outside of the human body and encompasses all forms of its existence, growth, and development, including zygote, pre-embryo, embryo, and fetus. The law does not recognize these “humans” as persons. Judicial fiat institutionalizes this status of being “separate and unequal.” An unborn human being is doomed unless it is wanted and chosen by its mother to be born alive” (Lugosi 226). Besides a few circumstances, most abortions are morally wrong because they are equivalent to murder, deny the right to life, and brutal.

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Some people believe an abortion is moral because the fetus is not human until birth. The counter argument for that belief would be the fetus has the potential to become human. Therefore, fetuses deserve the same right to life like every human and abortions deny the right to life to fetuses. “Fetuses also have valuable futures, since there are experiences, activities, and projects in their futures that they will come to value. Thus, killing a fetus deprives it of a future like ours and is therefore seriously presumptively immoral” (Nichols 494). There are a few cases when abortion is justified. “If all fetuses have a right to life, and if abortion always involves killing, the fetus then abortion can be justified only when either (1) the fetus is not innocent, or (2) the killing is not direct” (Sumner 107). Abortion are only justified when the continuation of the pregnancy will kill the mother or the pregnancy is due to rape or incest, but that only counts for less than one percent of abortions