Women Must be Free to Choose Abortion
             There comes a time in the lives of most women when an ovum,
             fertilized with sperm, will implant itself into her uterine wall. This is
             nature's first step in its attempt to continue the human race. Currently,
             when this implantation occurs, the impregnated woman has the right to allow
             the embryo to nourish itself into existence or to eliminate all chances of
             that embryo attaining life through abortion. Every species of plant and
             animal on earth reproduce in one way or another. How could something as
             ancient and fundamental as reproduction turn into one of the most hotly
             contested moral debates in history? The question can only be answered if
             we first examine the intellectual psyche of the human animal.
             Since we are currently the most intelligent beings on earth, we use
             our critical thinking capabilities to selectively choose what should be
             morally acceptable and what should be deemed unacceptable. To the best of
             our knowledge, we as humans are the only species in existence that wrestle
             with moral dilemmas. Absolute morality that will be agreed upon by the
             majority of a society is extremely difficult to determine since each
             individual has the ability to decide for themselves what is morally
             acceptable. It is because of this decision that our American culture
             intensely debates issues of morality such as abortion. The debate over
             abortion pits the rights to life of an unborn fetus against the rights of
             rational women who want to control what happens to their own body. Does
             the termination of a pregnancy deprive a human of their right to life?
             Should our government be allowed the power to regulate what a woman can and
             cannot do with her own body? These are two of the questions which will be
             deliberated over throughout the course of this paper.
             In his article "Abortion and Infanticide", Michael Tooley tackles
             two im...