Abortion, sometimes called termination of pregnancy, is the process where the pregnancy ends before the fetus/baby is born. There are two types of abortion that can be processed. The first one is a medical abortion, which can be done by taking medical pills to terminate the pregnancy. This pill is usually taken up to 24 weeks within the pregnancy. The second process is called surgical abortion, which is considered as a minor operation. There is a vacuum aspiration which is handled up to 15 weeks within the pregnancy. Dilatation and evacuation, which is another surgical way is managed between 15 and 24 weeks. Females prefer the medical process since its more natural and much easier. Abortion is moral only under certain circumstances like, if …show more content…
Some fetuses are proven to have a genetic abnormality. There are many cases where the fetus is said to be born with unhealthy; down syndrome, cancer, disability, and many other uncommon cases. “An ultrasound report suggests about the physical development of the fetus. During the early months of pregnancy, many things can go wrong as a new baby starts developing. The cells are multiplying at a very fast rate that can cause some complex interactions between newly formed body parts. Such interactions may cause serious defect to the child and may also invite complications in pregnancy.” There are other tests such as amniocentesis, which are performed between 14 – 20 weeks. This test detects a variety of chromosomal abnormalities and genetic disorders. Women and their husbands should have the right to be able to decide whether they are capable of raising their children with serious conditions or not. It could be very tough financially, emotionally, and physically. Financially speaking if the child is mentally or physically ill, the parents would have to make a certain budget plan since they need extra care. Disabled kids take more time to be potty trained, and some unfortunately aren’t able at all so that would result in a life time budget of diapers. Others may require physical, speech, and occupational therapy. Some families aren’t able to afford …show more content…
Don Marquis has a restrictive view on abortion. He first states that the killer, most likely the mother will be viewed as a brutalizer. Then, there will be effects on the victims like families, relatives, and friends. Lastly, there will be an effect on the person killed since his view is that the killer will take away all of their future experiences. This is so not true and no one should be able to call a mother a brutalizer. The mother undergoes abortion rather than putting her life into jeopardy or having her child go through a life time of problems. She shouldn’t be labeled as a brutalizer. There will be an effect on the victims like families, relatives and friends because they will feel really hurt seeing the baby suffering. The family would feel a physiological harm if they reject the mother’s opinion to go through abortion because of a health condition. The father can be very paranoid and frightened on how to raise a mentally/physically ill child. Some parents sometimes even give up and give them for abortion because they feel that the responsibility for raising an ill child is really big. So if the parents are really nervous in this tough situation, it should be ok to go through abortion to not face this tough experience. Parents and or grandparents can also be very effected to see the baby in an unstable condition and go through
Don Marquis is a philosopher arguing that any form of abortion is immoral. His original thesis states: In the overwhelming majority of cases, deliberate abortions are seriously immoral. He begins by stating why killing is wrong in three statements. He states, “killing is wrong because it brutalizes the killer, it is a loss to others, and it robs the victim of all the experiences, activities, projects, and enjoyments that would otherwise have constituted one’s future” (68). The first two statements do not address the fetus, but the last statement is very arguable, so Marquis emphasizes his argument on this premise. Depriving anybody of their future has many consequences. Some parts of a person’s future are valued now and some parts could be valued later. Therefore, it is wrong to kill any adult human because it is a loss of future (which has value). He addresses the questions of personhood by stating that fetuses have the potential to be humans. Therefore, killing a fetus is depriving the fetus of having a
Marquis believes abortion to be extremely immoral. However he mentions that there are exceptions in rare but certain circumstances where abortion is acceptable. We can infer that these instances would include situations that would put the mother or child at serious risk by keeping the fetus. He is frustrated that this idea has received minimal support recently. As a result he wants to influence change in society in hopes of receiving the support and publicity this topic deserves. Marquis’ primary argument stems from the idea of killing in general. He explains it is immoral to kill an adult because it prematurely deprives the human of something they may have valued at the time they were killed, as well as something they may had valued in the future. Although the victim may not realize it at the time of their death, they certainly had a valuable future ahead of them to experience which has been cut short. We are the only ones who can decide what is valuable to them; in this case we value some things more than others, and this concept differs from person to person. For example, in the present I value the life I am given and the opportunity I have to earn my degree at Villanova University while also valuing my future as well knowing that I have a chance to be successful in the future. Although I have not succeeded yet, I still value that opportunity I have and the life I’m capable of achieving through earning a degree. Therefore, he connects this same theory to the life of a fetus. By killing the fetus the result is the same, we are depriving it of its futur...
In my opinion, Marquis’ argument for why abortion is morally wrong has a couple of flaws, it’s biased towards the fetus and makes some unreasonable assumptions. Specifically, Marquis' account of why killing an adult human is wrong can potentially lead to some controversial conclusions. Marquis also doesn't consider any consequences on the lives of the potential parents of the fetus. Due to the nature of the topic of abortion, it really only applies to women who are thinking of getting an abortion, and as such, we cannot make the standard assumptions that we will have with normal fetuses. In this essay I will explain Marquis' argument, and try to show that his argument cannot conclude that abortion is morally wrong.
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.
Thirdly, Marquis concludes from the last two premises and says that if you kill a fetus then it is prima facie seriously morally wrong of you. By killing off a human being’s potential values it is cruel, especially to children because they are defenseless. Then, Marquis asserts that if fetuses and adults are in the same moral categories then the fetus can only be aborted if there is a serious moral concern. In the beginning, Marquis proclaims that there are special cases like rape and the mom’s life being threatened that it would override the “moral wrongness” of abortion. So if the premises that Marquis stated above are all true then we ought to accept his conclusion. The first premise expresses that if you kill someone then one is taking away from his or her future like ours. Marquis statement on the first premise is one we ought to accept because obviously if the person is dead they cannot have a future like ours. The
There are many different types of abortions that can be performed. The type used depends on how far along in the pregnancy the woman is. In the very early stage of the pregnancy, up to 49 days after conception, the woman has two choices. The first is to take a combination of drugs. This is called a medical abortion.
Why Abortion is Immoral by Don Marquis is an essay that claims that abortion is morally wrong, and uses one argument in particular to explain why. He argues that many of us would agree that it is wrong to kill a human, and if you believe that then you should also have that view on abortions. If you think killing is wrong then you think all killing is wrong and the persons biological state, whether it is when a person is a fetus, one years old, or thirty years old, makes no difference. He then explains that killing is wrong not only because it is immoral, but wrong because it deprives the victim of life and the enjoyments one would have otherwise experienced; which Marquis believes is the greatest lost one can suffer (Marquis, 189). Given certain circumstances Marquis agrees there are cases where killing is acceptable, but nonetheless it is immoral.
Abortion is the termination of a human pregnancy that does not end in birth of a child. There are two types of abortion-medical abortion and surgical abortion. Medical abortion can be done before 49 days of pregnancy by using pharmaceutical drugs. Surgical abortion takes place by using surgical instruments between 6-14 weeks of pregnancy. Both methods are safe. It depends on the size of fetus and week of pregnancy. An abortion, which is the removal of a fetus from a woman’s body, should be allowed because of women’ s freedom, life opportunities and victim protection.
Abortion is very cruel to the baby and even harms the mother. It is murder!There are many different procedures for abortions, all gruesome and pain inflicting on the baby. Suction Aspiration (vacuum curettage) makes up for 98% of first trimester abortions. The cervix is first dilated. Then a suction tube with a sharp cutting edge is inserted which rips the baby to pieces. It then sucks out all the remains.
Twenty-one percent of all U.S. pregnancies end in abortion (“Induced ABortion in the United States). Abortion is murdering defenseless babies who would‘ve otherwise had a happy life with a couple that is unable to have their own child. Is killing an innocent person ever moral?
Abortion is a very controversial word. It is not something to be taken lightly whether you are against it or for it. When I say for it, I mean pro choice. Pro-choice to me means being able to decide what I want to do with my body, I am not for abortion. Of course I would rather see a fetus come to life but that is not choice. Whichever your feelings are, there are reasons why the new Texas laws hurt women and could be a gateway to more of our rights being taken away.
Abortion is to erase baby in mother’s body, which causes a big controversy around the world these days. Chang (2015.05.11.) reported a girl was sexually assaulted by her stepfather in Paraguay. Upon news of her pregnancy, not only international human rights organizations but also pro-choice people in their nation insisted her abortion. However, the Government of Paraguay disapproves her abortion because to remove fetus is only allowed when mother’s health is in danger obviously and is rather fatal to her as she is in the fifth month of pregnancy. According to Son (2015.05.08.), following Paraguay, incest occurred in Uruguay and the victim was known as 16th week of gestation. In Uruguay, erasing baby from womb is permitted within 14th week of
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by destruction of a fertilized egg, embryo or fetus before birth, prior to the time when the fetus attains viability, or capacity for life outside the uterus (Encyclopedia, 1995, p.43). Currently almost twenty-five percent of pregnancies in the United States are aborted. About one forth of people who abort are teenagers, fifty-seven percent are younger than 25, and almost eighty percent are unmarried. During the first trimester is when most of the abortions take place. Only about ten percent are performed later in the pregnancy (Slife, 1998, p.329). Abortions go back as far as Ancient Greece where it was used as a type of population control. Then in the Roman Times men had total control over the procedure. “Man could give law-enforced command that his wife have an abortion, or he could punish or divorce his wife for having one without his consent” (Encyclopedia, 1995, p.43).
" The number of American babies killed by abortion each year is roughly to the number of U.S. military deaths that have occurred BODY A. During the late 1800s, women healers in Western Europe and the U.S. provided abortions and trained other women to do so, without legal problems. The State didn 't prohibit abortion until the 19th century. Women would abort their child for plenty of such as to end an unwanted pregnancy, inability to support or care for a child, or to not have a child with birth defects. I disagree with this because after the aborton process, the mother be regret it and fall into deep depression or have a mental breakdown.
Abortion is the termination of the unborn. There are three different types of abortion spontaneous, therapeutic and elective. Spontaneous abortion is a miscarriage, therapeutic abortion is an abortion for medical purposes. Elective abortion is any other type of abortion that’s not spontaneous or therapeutic. Elective is the one that we’re concerned with.