The abortion topic was proposed by Mizuki, and she would like you to read the following articles in order to get familiarized with it:
http://www.friesian.com/abortion.htm,
http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010227, and
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20070322/ai_n18740338.
The deadline to respond to this topic is Monday, March the 31st. Please, do not forget to also compile a word list by that time, and bring to class with your IntRev final draft.
As always, have fun,
Kinga
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Abortion in my opinion is unethical and should not be permitted unless of an event such as rape. The first and third article discusses how the embryo can be, or is considered a living human being. Therefore, even though the particular individual is not yet born and is still inside the woman's body, abortion could be seen as an act of murder or killing. No one has the right to kill a human being, whether the individual is born or unborn. The baby not yet born, has a right to live. However there is a debate about the embryo not being a living thing during the first few weeks of pregnancy, which I do not know if it is true or not. Nevertheless, the one thing I do know is that abortion is unethical and therefore people should act responsibly whether or not it is illegal. There are many ways to prevent unplanned pregnancy so people should be aware of that and behave accordingly.
Abortion is immoral because people cannot take away others’ life even though they are parents. Fetus, infants and babies are all called lives. If killing a person is illegal, then kill an infant should also be illegal. Just because parents have a right to raise their children, they do not have a right to decide that murder is OK.
In the other hand, abortion is required in many situations. Some women have something wrong and can’t have babies, for example, a woman has serious congenital heart disease; and she will possibly die, if she wants to have her baby. Some women want to abort because they are raped and treat the babies as shame, so they won’t take care of the babies even though they may give birth to them. Many people believe that a child of rape is completely innocent and should not be killed. I agree that they are innocent, but if their parents hate their child and don’t want to take care of them, then abortions are needed in my opinion. If not, the child may be abused or abounded. If a person is born for suffering pains and hurt, it is better to not start this kind of lives.
In my opinion, whether the abortion is immoral or not should depend on the situation. Generally, abortion is a crucial way to treat a new life. I don’t know it is legal or not, but it is the responsibility of the parents to take care of the children unborn rather than abortion. However, bad stuff always happens. Let us imagine this status: a couple doesn’t stand in a good financial situation, what will happen to the kids if they are born? In other words, the couple doesn’t mean to have a kid and having a baby is just an accident. Doesn’t the abortion is a rational thought to maintain a family? To have a kid, the parents have to know the responsibility of the children and how much money and time is needed to bring up a baby. If they don’t have basic thoughts how to bring up a baby, personally, they better to abort or give their babies to other families. In some special cases like young couples, what is the most rational way to consider having a better future? Obviously, the abortion is not a bad way considering this situation.
As shown in the previews articles, I found out the center of the debate is that whether a foetus could be called a human-being since it was neither legal nor moral to kill a human-being. To me, I think this will depend on which stage the abortion will take place. In the very early stage, I don’t consider it is not right to have abortion since the “baby” is just a prototype. This prototype has no feelings, and it is just made of cells and organisms. However, when it comes to the medium stage or higher, it would be cruel to do an abortion. The scientists have acclaimed that a 6+ months baby can actually have very intuitive human feelings such like hearing, sensing… It would be completely immoral to execute them before they are born! The articles stated some statistics after enforcing the law of the freedom of abortion: A sharp increase in pre-marital sex; a sharp rise in out-of-wedlock births; a drop in the number of children placed for adoption; a decline in marriages that occur after the woman is pregnant. As we can see, there are pros and cons to this law. It would be hard to say which is better: free the will or not? I think it is quite a matter of morality other than law. But since morality itself is a very subjective matter, we will not be able to choose for those women who are pregnant and want to have an abortion.
Abortion has been controversial issue for decades; the real issue lies on whether the fetus must be considered as human or not. I personally think fetuses are in the process of being human. They are not absolute human beings, but they are in very important step. Also, I think 1month old fetus is different from 8months old one. But if the pregnant woman has problem such as health problems or the fetus is from rape or unwanted sex. It will be unhappy to both parent and the baby after these kinds of problem happened. The decision should depend on the parents since they don’t deserve any unhappiness for having unwanted baby. But some people want to get rid of their fetuses because they just don’t want extra baby. I disagree with those kinds of people because they made the choice of not having safe sex. Therefore, I think the ethnicity of having abortion lies on the parents’ circumstances.
Abortion cannot be justified under any cases. In my opinion abortion is an obvious act of killing. While I was reading the articles provided, I realized that the issue is whether the fetus should be considered as a human being or not. I think fetus, or embryo should be considered as a human being since it is a process of being a baby. Do you guys know how cruel the abortion is? baby's body is cut in parts by knives and then they get the cutted parts out from the uterus. Can you even imagine that how the baby would feel? when their bodies are cutted? Abortion is really matter of morality more than law. In my country, abortion is prohibited by law, but still a lot of people abort babies. The base line is that the abortion is an act of murder. Fetus and embryo, they can neither express their feeling nor talk, but that doesn't mean that they do not have right to live.
From the article, considering the abortion as an action of murder depending on whether the fetuses are considered as human being or not. In my opinion, I strongly disagree with abortion. Killing babies are ethically wrong even they are in any steps of developing organs because they are totally innocent human being. However, it will be also a big problem if there are only few people who wish to adopt babies in the case that the parents refuse to raise babies. What pregnant women should do when they don’t have enough money to raise baby or they are totally not ready to raise baby? Although I disagree with abortion, I am not sure whether I won’t abort baby or not if I become pregnant accidentally. Having a baby takes a big responsibility. To avoid abortion and any problems, only things we can do are to reduce pre-marital sex and to make sure taking birth control.
In my opinion, I think abortion is unethical and cruel. I had seen a movie about abortion. It shows the whole procedure how to abort. At the time i saw it, I cried out. Because it is too cruel. Actually, most of pregnancy can be prevent but some people just do whatever they want and didn't consider the result thus when they have a baby "accidentally", they just want to abort. I think abortion should be used on some specific events like rape or abnormal babies. It is not only unethical but also a murder to kill an unwanted baby. In fact, a person has no reasons to kill anyone even the life is you gave to him. The decision shouldn't be made by individual. There are many responsibilities for an adult to pay for, as an adult, you have to consider the result before doing anything thus, you can said to be an "adult".
So i think people should pay the responsibility about abortion, because in most cases, they can be avoided.
When I was in army, I saw so many cases that soldiers accidently made their girlfriends pregnant during their several days of vacation. After they found out that their girlfriends were pregnant, every one of them considered abortion to avoid their situations. Of course, the abortion is illegal in our country. I also have total disagreement with the abortion. However, some people who disagree with the abortion say that if it is just fetus or embryo, the abortion can become an option to use. According Fetology which studies fetus, after 3 weeks of pregnant, heart starts to beat. After 6 weeks, all the organs start to form and you are able to tell whether if it’s male or female and brain wave begins its action. After 8 weeks, they can grasp their hands. Do you think that it is still not a human being just because it does not have feeling like us? Giving birth is not the start of a life of human being. I think that once the fertilization happens, it is the start of one human being.
Abortion!! Another controversial issue that drew many people’s attention years ago. Now, people still has been talking about this issue. Some might say that abortion is not wrong is it is done during the first 3 months when a woman is pregnant while some say it is wrong. For myself, I consider abortion as one way of killing people. Why must they do abortion? What kind of sin have the babies done? I just feel that there are no reasons for abortion. The child has the right to live in this world even though his or her parents do not want to have him or her. It is not the child fault. Some people say that abortion is done because of having no money to raise the baby, which is unacceptable and actually shows their dumbness. Money can be earned but live is not. Therefore, I think abortion should not be done as we should appreciate life. It is all about morality.
In my way of thinking, abortion is totally immoral and should not be legalized for any reason. It is only the option if the baby endanger the mother's life. All other reasons are unacceptable. I dont wanna talk why abortion should be legalized or not but how we can avoid abortion. In my opinion, the couple should know their responsibility to avoid abortion from happen. They must decide whether they want to have kids or not. They must try their best to avoid unplanned pregnancy. Just like when you wanna drink, drink responsibly, when you wanna have sexual relations with your partner, do it responsibly. For the women who are raped or accidentally had sex with someone, they should be brave to tell their parents of if they are not, they can go straight to clinic and get checked whether they are pregnant or not. There are ways that we can avoid the embryo from being formed. In a nutshell, abortion is totally unethical and everyone especially woman must know his or her responsibility to avoid it from happen.
I think abortion is acceptable. Most people that argue against abortion just try to arise that people should focus on moral disciplinary. But moral disciplinary itself is also made by some human beings. I think reasonable abortion is also acceptable due to moral disciplinary. Put yourself in this story, if you had a very high position in the society and owned a very high honor, what you want to do certainly is to let all that you gained continue in the next generation. That is exactly where the heritage comes from. But unfortunately, you finally have a baby with an extraordinary low intelligence. What would you think of is to erase this existence of the baby. Will you keep it by your side, which would make all you gained disappear? Of course, no. What if the mother is very poor, it has been nearly impossible for her to feed herself. Then abortion would be a no worse choice, maybe two lives can both be saved. But one thing I deeply disagree is that abort children by sex discrimination, which I just cannot understand.
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