Abortion: Arguments | Assignment

Running head: ABORTION: ARGUMENTS
ABORTION: ARGUMENTS
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1ABORTION: ARGUMENTS
Abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of human pregnancy that are most often
carried out at the first twenty weeks of pregnancy. Even though abortion is considered a right of
the bodily integrity of women, arguments against abortion also exist. Many religious scriptures
have talked ill about abortion by considering that abortion is similar to a murder or assassination.
The respective paper intends to analyze and advocate the argument “why is abortion wrong” with
proper social, cultural and religious interpretations along with cosmopolitan societal behaviors.
The paper is in an essay format.
Certain people with certain sets of beliefs stick to the idea that abortion is wrong and that
women do not have the discretion or right over their bodies. Such ideas have been proved as an
obstacle in the path of women’s emancipation in the third wave of materialist feminism all over
the world. Women are now considered as an individual who are eager to go ahead in their life
despite worrying about unwanted pregnancy. Many women speak up in favor of abortion
because they say that if they are not ready financially or socially to deliver a child and take care
of it, it would be better to completely terminate the pregnancy altogether. A child who does not
have social and economic protection might lose a lot in their lifespan. However, a counter theses
states that abortion is not good, or that it is unethical even if the foetus has not taken a human
form. Certain theorists have said that abortion deprives a foetus of his/her future of values. Life
on earth means a hundreds of possibilities and advancements. Despite the gender of the foetus, a
person who might take birth on the earth is an asset to the society. The foetus takes turns of
becoming a child and “the child is the father of the man” which means future lies in the pregnant
women’s disposition and how they look at the world (Sumner, 2014). Killing a life for the sake
of certain difficulties is immoral in the present situation because the foetus is the product of
nature and therefore, nobody has the integrity to kill nature’s component. According to the