Abortion
Daniels 1 Kimberly Daniels Ms. Clara Wright English IV 21 January 2000 Abortion: Pro-Choice or Pro-Life Controlling Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explain the pro-choice and pro-life controversy of receiving an abortion. I. Introduction A. Definition of abortion. II. Thesis statement A. Pro-choice B. Pro-Life III. The views A. The moral viewpoint B. The murder viewpoint C. The restriction viewpoint D. The parental consent viewpoint E. The rape justification viewpoint F. The safe viewpoint IV. Conclusion A. First Amendment Daniels 2 Abortion: Pro-Choice or Pro-Life " But oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to desperation which impelled her to the crime [abortion]" (Susan B. Anthony, 1869). In the Scott, Foresman Advanced Dictionary, Thorndike and Barnhart defined abortion as the removal of a developing embryo or fetus from the uterus to terminate a pregnancy before birth resulting in death of the fetus (3). The abortion issue has become one of the world's most controversial problems of today. This issue is divided into two sides, pro-life and pro-choice. They focus on different aspects of receiving an abortion. At one end we have the pro-choice advocate---those who focus on women's
Is abortion moral or immoral? According to pro-life supporters, the unborn child is entrusted to the protection and care of the mother carrying it and yet the majority of the Daniels 3 time it is the mother herself who makes the choice of whether or not the child should be aborted. Burning in hospital furnaces or city incinerators exposes of many of the aborted babies. To many pro-life advocates, abortion is a form of holocaust. Contrary to popular accusations it is not the decision to abort, but the decision to have a child that is treated with the insufficient gravity in our society (Quinn, Abortion, 25). Therefore, taking the life of an innocent child is like killing the image of God. They have compared abortion to the Nazi's termination of the Jews. Some people think of abortion as a self-defense rather than a murder because the woman is defending her health, her way of life, and her piece of mind against something that is not wanted. In the Bible, God said that thou shall not murder. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution states that everyone has the freedom of speech, or of press; therefore, different people should have different Daniels 7 opinions. " (Abortion, 24) Many women who knew that life would only bring pain for their children choose to have an abortion. On the other end we have the pro-life ---those who oppose abortion and focus on the fetus rights. Legislators who disagree with abortion believe that the parental-consent laws will scare teens into abstinence. Opponents of abortion rights walk a fine line when they condone any abortion. Pro-life groups prefer that the bodies be disposed with dignity, a Christian burial. 6million annually, and over 30 million in the 20 years after the United States Supreme court gave it proabortion decision in 1973.
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