ETHICS & ABORTION

The balance of ethical considerations weighs heavily in the woman's favor

Anti-abortionists like to portray the abortion issue as a one-sided moral issue in which they classify an abortion as murder and those who support the right to abortion as evil murderers. The reality is that it’s not so simple and a case can be made for an ethical right to obtain an abortion. So, here’s a list of arguments the support abortion rights. arguing that the right of a woman to obtain an abortion is a moral right and that the movement to prevent abortion is the unethical, immoral position.

· What is moral about bringing an unwanted child into the world to experience rejection from its father and distain from its mother? That’s the kind of situation that produces sociopaths and warped personalities who are the likely perpetrators of criminal activity, if not murder.

· What is gained by forcing a woman to carry on with a stillborn child in her womb? That’s an intolerable burden for both the woman and society to bear.

· A severely damaged fetus may be dependent on its mother (and maybe its father), requiring heavy medical care – unable to reach real personhood. For its own sake, it would be better to be aborted.

· Going to term could risk the life of the mother. Why should she not be able to terminate the growth of the fetus?

· What is the justification for another person (a legislator) - or the law – to be able to determine how a woman must endure the ravages of a pregnancy?

· Why should male legislators be able to decide what a woman must do with her body when they do not need to experience the hardships of a pregnancy? That gives the male sex a superior advantage over the female sex.

· Why should it be more important to save an unborn fetus without any knowledge, experience, family relationships and sense of living over that of an adult woman who has all of these things and is engaged in an active, productive life?

When all of the ethical considerations are taken into account, it is hard to see why a woman’s right to choose to terminate a fetus should be anyone’s business but her own.