Abortion is probably one of the most intensely debated ethical issues in today's society. For example, Pro-choice believers feel that a woman has the right to choose whether to have an abortion, while Pro-life followers feel that abortion is never an option. However, in an attempt to find common ground on this issue, we tend to overlook the basic facts regarding this issue. To solve this issue one could look at abortion under an objective view instead of only a subjective view and find that while there is no real answer to this controversy, ethical choices are plentiful. With all the examination complete it then becomes apparent that since it is always wrong to cause death to an innocent person, abortion is always wrong. With that said, the Pro-life view is morally and ethically the correct view.
             Before we begin to make decisions about abortion we must first examine the definitions that surround this issue. The first definition that we must define is "personhood". What makes up personhood? The definition of when a fetus becomes a person is a very gray area, however if we utilize medical definitions of life, we can see that a fetus is a person when its heart begins to beat on its own. This definition is clear if we look at the example of a person who has had a heart attack. Once the heart stops the patient is declared legally dead, therefore if there is a heart beat, there is life. Since the heart begins to beat after about 3 to 4 weeks, abortion after that time would constitute killing a human being, which under most ethical views is morally and ethically wrong.
             A clearer way of looking at the issue of personhood is whether or not an object has the potential to become a "person". For example a seed from a tree does not have the potential to become a person, while the combination of the sperm and the egg does have the potential to become a person. Using this definiti
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