Pro-life rhetoric concludes, that the unborn child is not human, or alive. According to Francis Beckwith, in “Politically Correct Death” “ One begs the question whenever one assumes what one is trying to prove. To cite an example, abortion advocates who argue that abortion is justified because a woman should have the right to "control her own body" are assuming that there is only one body involved in the abortion act that of the woman.” This is the point they are trying to prove. Or, the popular assertion, "No one knows when life begins, so abortion should remain legal." But to argue that no one knows when life begins, and that abortion must remain legal through all nine months of pregnancy, assumes that life does not begin before birth the exact point the abortion advocate is trying to make. Then, there is the well known "back alley" argument that asserts American women will die by the millions if abortion is restricted in any way. But unless you begin with the assumption that the unborn child is not human, this argument is more or less to saying, "Because some people are killed attempting to murder others, the state should make it safe and legal for them to do so."
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function with being. Abortion advocates claim that a "person" is a living entity with feelings, self-awareness and the ability to interact with their environment. Since the fetus, can do none of these things, it cannot be fully human. But a little reflection will show that one's inability to function as a person as outlined above does not prove that one lacks the being of a person, which is the essential thing. According to Professor Peter Kreeft in his essay "Human Personhood"(Journal of Biblical Ethics In Medicine, Winter 1990).
"Is a person, One who can consciously perform personal acts? If so, people who are asleep are not people and we may kill them. One with a present capacity to perform personal acts? If so, that would include sleepers but not those in a coma. One with a history of performing personal acts? That would mean that a 17-year old who was born in a coma 17 years ago and is just now coming out of it is not a person. Also, by this definition, there can be no first personal act, no personal acts without a history of past personal acts. One with a future capacity for performing personal acts? That would mean that dying persons are not
persons.” It clearly states that the ability to perform human functions is not necessary for human personhood. A person is with the natural, inherent capacity to give rise to personal acts, even if one lacks the current ability to perform those acts. From the moment of conception, the unborn child is able to function as a person. They can’t speak, or reason, or do things on his own. That only means, he can’t function as a person, not that he did not have the deficiency of being an essential human being. There are so many, methods of abortion. According to Alan Guttmacher Institute: Dilation & Curettage (D&C), Dilation and Evacuation (D&E), Dilation and Extraction (D&X or Partial Birth Abortion), Hysterotomy, Intracardiac Injection, Prostaglandin, RU-486, Saline Injection, Suction Abortion. These are the sick, procedures that are preformed 1.1 million times a year according to Alan Guttmacher Institute. ⅓ of american women, have had at least one abortion by the age of 45. Now that right there is evidence of how, abortion being legal can effect, the assumption it’s harmless, or it’s okay. It’s not, really abortion is sick and merely genocide of an innocent being.
The All Lives Matter supporters believe that black people who were killed recently showed violence against the policemen and they were not innocents. The president of Amherst College Republicans Robert Lucido responses, “First, the Black Lives Matter group was originally titled ‘F--- the Police.’ The organizers of the Awareness week claimed that every 28 hours a black man is killed by a law enforcement officer, but they never mentioned that a law enforcement officer is killed every 48 hours in the line of duty. The organizers may have thought it clever, but such a title is utterly shameful” (Lucido). The author uses ethos by showing facts in his response that illustrates the opposite of what Black Lives Matter group claimed; however, these
As to any argument, there are two opposing sides when it comes to the matter of abortions. These two opposers usually refer to themselves as “pro-life” and “pro choice”. Pro-life supporters maintain that abortion is wrong and pro-choice believe that it is a woman’s freedom to choose her pregnancy decisions. When it comes to the topic of abortions, most of us will readily agree that it’s a woman’s choice to decide what her reproductive decisions are, i.e. pro-choice. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is in the question of whether or not abortion is a fundamental right granted to women by the Constitution. Whereas some are convinced that a fetus is considered alive at conception, usually citing the word of God, others maintain that
Pro-choice activists only focus on the positives of being able to choose whether a woman can keep her baby. They don’t look at the risks that come with abortion like “shame, guilt, and regret” (Chittom & Newton, 2015). Abortion doesn’t only effect a woman mentally, but also physically. There is a possibility of death or complications when having an abortion. Anything can go wrong even if it is rare for it to happen. I don’t believe a woman should put her physical health at risk in order to kill her own baby. It sound harsh saying the word “kill”, but that is the reality. Pro-choice supporters try to shy away from using phrases like “killing” and “baby” because of how harsh it sounds. They would rather use words like “fetus”, “embryo” and “annihilate”. Using those word make the reality of killing an innocent baby seem less harsh. They bring up reasons to support their stance like stating that “a woman must have the power to control a decision as significant as parenthood, and that individuals should be able to influence decisions to the same extent that those decisions affect their lives” (Anderson, 2015). Their reasoning isn 't good enough. A woman can have the power to make her own decisions at another time. She can decide many things for herself, but abortion shouldn 't be one of
Parker attempts to use pathos in order to appeal to her audience's emotion. For example, she appeals to her audiences’ weaknesses by saying that women who have undergone an abortion feel shame, yet how can someone determine that another feels shameful because they realize that abortion is wrong. You could easily argue that they were in a state of depression because they miss their baby; that does not make them shameful.
Abortion, one of the most quarrelsome issues in America, is discussed daily in thorough detail. Although an abortion deals with women’s own bodies, health, and futures, women should not be allowed to regulate who survives and who dies. America’s president-elect genuinely deems that Roe v. Wade, which allows women to make their own intimate decision, should be repealed. Furthermore, at a campaign event in Wisconsin, Donald Trump stated that women who seek abortion should be subject to “some form of punishment” (Flegenheimer, et al.). While this New York Times article is heavily biased, Trump was highly criticized for the rhetoric he used at his campaign event. Americans must fathom what Trump is faithfully preaching; Trump is discoursing any
Many people who are pro-life see abortions as a direct violation preserving human life. This is one of the trickiest arguments concerning abortion because of the various opinions about what qualifies as a human life. Some say from the moment a human sperm penetrates a human egg, a new entity comes into the world. I believe otherwise. In the first trimester, which is when majority of abortions take place, fetuses and embryos cannot survive without its mother. Since its health is dependent on the mother’s health, it is not considered a separate life and therefore is not considered murder. After all, a person’s age is computed from their birth date, not
Pro-Choice People declare that a woman has the right to decide if she wants to have the baby or not. Additionally, supporters point out also that abortions, would take place even if the procedure was made illegal and that criminalization of it would lead to unsafe abortion practices, particularly among the poor. Pro-Life People see abortion as murder and a violation of the fetus 's right to live.Some people believe that accepting abortion will lead to the disregard for human life in general. Many advocates believe that the acceptance of abortion encourages sexual immorality. (Americana,
Abortion has been one of the biggest controversies of all time. Many people believe it is immoral and even consider it to be murder. The definition of abortion is; “The termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to being capable of normal growth.” 1 These pro-life believers do not support the idea of induced abortion and believe it should be illegal. Many of these supporters do not know that if abortion were illegal they would still be performed, unfortunately by an uneducated staffs. Over 70 thousand maternal deaths occur every year because of unsafe abortions1. These women die, so the idea of supporting pro-life is contradictory, this is why the nation should be pro-choice.
...ciples, the pro-choice position is certainly not obviously wrong. Consequently, when abortion advocates try to make the argument more or less probable, they call for pro-life citizens to completely cease from bringing the legitimate idea of freedom to life for the purpose of protecting the unborn from harm, these abortion-choice supporters are by so doing encouraging their fellow pro-choice citizens to silently and politely remain firm that the unborn are not fully fledged members of the human community therefore are not entitled to protection by the state. To the opponent of abortion, this request hardly seems tolerant or liberating.
The act of aborting a fetus deals with a very complex definition of what a human life is. As Alan Keyes says, “Whether a life is a human life, entitled to respect for all the basic, inviolable rights of humanity – this is a critically important judgment.” No one person has the right to say when life begins and this is where the controversy on the issue of abortion stems from. Pro-life advocates define human life as beginning at the moment of conception, while pro-choice supporters claim that once the egg and sperm are united this is just a living organism and not a human life. If the fetus is a human then it is entitled to live under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, saying that it is as equal as any other person. Along with this presumption, if aborted, the aborter could be subject to the penalties that anyone would receive for killing another human being. If the fetus is not being thought of as a human life, then there should be no problem with aborting a fetus. This decision on whether or not the fetus is living or not is extremely difficult to make, therefore creating moral conflict in our society today and for many years to come.
Pro-choice supporters believe that abortion should remain legal and a woman should be free to determine the future of her own body without the influence of religion or the government, while pro-life enthusiasts believe life begins at the moment of conception and therefore abortion is the immoral killing of innocent human beings. Abortion is a life or death matter and has no grounds for agreement between the two opposing sides of the dispute. Abortion should remain legal in the United States because it allows women to take control of their bodies by offering a second chance when a poor or misguided choice was made, when the life of the expected mother is in danger or the child is predetermined to be born with serious medical complications, or when the unwanted pregnancy is the outcome of a repulsive act of sexual violence or incest. It is clear that abortion should remain legal because while some people may find it to be immoral, abortion is often the best choice that a woman finds herself presented with when weighing her
There are many topics within health communication many find difficult to talk about; Topics such as cancer, STD’s, death, etc. These topics can be difficult to make discourse about for a multitude of reasons. People may have had an encounter with a certain area in health, or they’ve done their research and are conscious of the many difficult discourses involved with certain topics pertaining to health. But one prominent area of health communication that triggers much scrutiny, conversation and judgment is discourse on abortion. As we know, abortion is a tough topic to discuss due to its religious ties and personal
Those who adamantly oppose abortion are regarded as pro-life and those who are supporters of abortion are considered pro-choice by contemporary standards. Even among those who advocate abortion, there are discrepancies in their views such as up until what point in the pregnancy is abortion morally permissible. In my opinion, abortion is morally permissible at any stage in a woman’s pregnancy. This is ethically acceptable because a woman should have the right to control what goes on within her body. Along with this, fetuses are still far from personhood (having the qualities of a human being); therefore, we cannot liken abortion to any variety of murderous activity.
The people are pro-choice and defend the women who decide to have an abortion. Many don’t know this but, some people, known as pro-life, will deliberately go out of their way to attack women who have had an abortion. They harass, threaten, stalk, and sometimes even go as far as killing women who took an unborn child’s life. “Pro-life position is that a new human life is created at the moment of fertilization and is, thus, entitled to the same legal protections as any other human being” (WND). With that being said, pro-life supports the idea that every child has a right to live and to be born. They don’t believe any excuse is acceptable to terminate a child’s life, even if the mother is mentally unfit or not financially stable. Their argument is more focused on the unborn child rather than putting themselves in the mother’s shoes (Human Rights). Pro-life supporters do not see the reasons, situations, or benefits to abortion for the mother. There are many reasons to why people do not want to support abortion. Supporters of pro-life think women who get pregnant and want an abortion are irresponsible. To bring an unwanted child in the world is what’s irresponsible. The main reason being, killing an unborn child making the mother a murder in their eyes. What pro-life people don’t understand is that some children could potentially die from the
Many people think that their views on the matter are much better than the opposing side of things. The opposing sides believe that if a person who opposes abortion would agree on the premise that life as a human being begins at the start of conception. Given the human right to life, abortion is murder and must be outlawed. Most allow an immunity if the woman's life is endangered by determination of the pregnancy; others append pregnancy by rape or incest.