Question News & Politics
Is abortions legality ethical?
Shrek March 27, 2008 16:57:24
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The abortion debate today seems to have the majority believing that abortion should be allowed and the government should stay out of a woman's right to choose. However, I argue diffrently. I do not believe that abortion is ethical at all. I would not say that a fetus is a baby and thereby killing it is murder, but I would say that killing a fetus is unethical. A fetus is a life, it has a genetic code from the moment of conception that makes it distinctly diffrent from the mother entirely. The life has been created at conception, it may not be a life that can think or have emotional characteristics-- it nevertheless is a life though. To end a life is unethical, especially a life that has a potential to be a human being. After all, the fetus you once were had the same future you already lived and the same future you yourself now have. How is killing you when you were a fetus and now when you are a human any diffrent in terms of denying you of that future-- which is why murder is considered unethical, because you are depriving an innocent life of it's future.
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And my only argument to your comment is that it is not entirely the woman's body either. Actually, it is a very small part of the woman's body. The baby has it's own genetic code and DNA upon conception. It is a completely seperate organizm than the mother. Granted it might be parasitic and depend on the mother for survival, but it nontheless is a seperate life and not just and extention of the mother's body.
but being as i have not had either happen to me yet.. i still stick with its their body not mine and i couldn't do it, but i find nothing wrong with it,
Sorry there are to many children up for adoption and not enough of them are being adopted, (although if the states would get off their high horse and let gay couples adopt then that fact would not so much be fact anymore..) and there are some people out there who DO use protection but still end up preggo, that totally dont need to be having children due to them not being able to take care of themselves
To comment on your second point, about gay couples being able to adopt, I agree with that.
To comment on your third point, about people using protection but still getting pregnant. The law has already decided this point in my opinion. There is a law called assimilated risk, which means that if I bring a gun (even if I have a permit to carry it and own it and everything is fine) to a grocery store and that gun being seen causes the cashier to thinking your robbing the store, the cashier can not be held responcible for his/her actions.. It gives a list of scenarios like this to explain the law. Basically all it means is that when you do or have something that makes someone or something else respond out of natural instincts then you took on that assimilated risk by having or doing whatever it was that you were doing and you have to deal with the consequences.
Say some 22 yr old girl, who waited her entire life to have sex, with the one person she has been with for lets say 9 yrs, and on their first encounter she winds up preggo, She has no financial stability the "father" who she thought was going to marry her one day ran away due to the fear of being a father
Her family and friends have basically turned their backs on her, Should she have this child? and live on your and my paychecks, (due to since she has no financial background she will prolly end up on welfare.)
(my opinion on this is she needs to have one, she cant mentally take care of it physically take care of it, or anything else, and no offense i pay enough taxes i dont want to have to support her too.. yanno?)
And I have no problem paying for someone who needs it, like in this case. My problem is the money that goes do people who don't need it and who are just lazy. Again, she can give the child up for adoption if she can't emotionally or physically take care of it. Chances are that her family and friends who turned there backs on her in her time of need aren't really worth the salt in their bodies and won't really care about her whether she gives it up or has it. So either way she will be alone, without any financial abilities, and now she has to deal with the emotional scare of an abortion and probably will never have a child again, which is the case in 94% of all abortion cases.
Ive watched it happen to 8 of my closest friends, in 6 different states, and the worst part is one of my friends wasn't going to allow the court to make him pay anything, and he went behind her back and signed his rights away so she couldn't change her mind later on. just as the woman can do the same thing give birth hand the kid over to dear daddy and walk away after signing her rights away nothing he can do..
but till that day i wont ever get one lol
That is not true at all. I am a TRUE pro-life supporter. The reason I said that I felt if a woman's life is at risk from going through with the pregnancy than the abortion can be seen as self-defence. There is nothing unethical about self defence. If my life was at risk there would be no way that anyone has to tell me I have to die in order for someone else to live. That is not the situation in over 90% of abortions. Most all abortions go "I don't want this kid, I'm not ready for it. Let's just get ride of it." This excuse is not a valid excuse for taking a life. Neither is "I can't afford this baby right now" because there are millions of organizations that are there for that situation. Defending your own life is a valid excuse for taking a life. Therefore, I am a TRUE pro-lifer, because I believe in life and I believe someone should fight for it. However, unless your excuse is that your own life was in danger, it is unethical to kill an innocent life.
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Ethical means that something is right or can be considered right judgement by the majority of people. Like stealing is unethical.
So if you view abortion as bad you would put that YES the law is unethical because it says that abortion is ok
If you view abortion as ok you would put NO the law is ethical because it says that abortion is ok.
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Sure trees and plants are cut down or dug up for trivial reasons but an animals life is never taken without just cause, and if it has been that person is punished. For example, Micheal Vick!
And how is a fetus comparable to a tree? It has nothing in common except for the fact that they both have cells! An analogy that says a fetus is like an animal is a little closer to the real picture, but still is way off. But at least that I could find agreeable, but not a tree. The fetus may or may not be a person yet at conception, but whatever you define it as it is sure going to become a person if you leave it alone. If this scenario was true for a tree we would have diffrent laws about getting ride of trees.
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The only "choice" is to end a life.
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I just want to let you know that I am a man of religion, but I hold very little water to religions facts as documented in the bible. Not everyone believes in the same religion or moral code as do christians which is why I think it, and all religions need to stay out of political debates and governing laws. As well as vis versa!