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Philosophy Essay - Abortion Introduction When does life actually begin? When, if ever, is it right to terminate a pregnancy? These are some of the moral dilemmas that are faced when dealing with the issue of abortion. Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy. There are many different stands held on the issue of abortion. For those holding a conservative view on abortion, abortion is never acceptable except when necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman. In contrast, the liberal view believes that abortion is always ethically acceptable at any point of fetal development, and for any reason. Finally, there are those in the middle, that hold the moderate view. They believe that abortion is ethically acceptable up to a certain point of fetal development and that some reasons are acceptable. Mary Anne Warren's Argument for Abortion Mary Anne Warren's stand on abortion is that of a liberal one. In her article, On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, she concludes that "...a !women's right to protect her health, happiness, freedom, and even her life, by terminating an unwanted pregnancy, will always override whatever right to life it may be appropriate to ascribe to a fetus, even a fully developed one." (pg.16, Mappes) Warren
If abortion were available to all wo!men for any reason, at any stage of pregnancy, we would become desensitized to the fact that a life is actually being destroyed. She talks about how it is our bodies and that we have a right to do what we want to, to keep them healthy, but fails to bring to our attention that abortions are not healthy for us. To support her conclusion she uses creative stories, such as a story about if we landed on a planet how would we be able to distinguish the aliens as those holding morals such as ourselves, or things in which we could eat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. For one, he compares the killing of us to the killing of animals, therefore basically implying that !we are at the same moral status as animals, which I think many would not agree with and look down upon. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Abortion should not be a solution to our irresponsible actions, nor should it not be allowed to those really needing to terminate their pregnancy. Finally, she fails to mention that abortions can be damaging to a women's health. The weaknesses to her argument is that if we were to support her argument, that pregnancy should be able to be terminated at any stage, then we could fall into a slippery slope. Marquis' main strength in his argument against abortion is that it sets up a strong stand that killing of any kind, especially of those that are our future is always wrong. 12, Mappes) And since a fetus does not possess these five characters, she believes that they are not entitled to have full moral status, and may be terminated during any stage of pregnancy. There are also weaknesses to the argument as well.
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