Ethical Arguments Concerning Abortion

Running head: ASSESSMENT 4: REPRODUCTIVE ETHICS
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ASSESSMENT 4: REPRODUCTIVE ETHICS
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ASSESSMENT 4: REPRODUCTIVE ETHICS
Ethical arguments concerning abortion
Abortion is an act of terminating the pregnancy prior to standard delivery time using
operation. According to some community, it is stated to be legalized and ethical in nature,
whereas others look at it as immoral and unethical. The aim of the paper is to evaluate ethical
reasoning on both for and against the issue.
According to Muniz, Lins and Silva Menezes (2018), abortion is considered merely as
a matter of a pregnant woman’s body and it offers unlimited right to choose what they want
to do with the body; thus, they have the ultimate choice of opting for abortion. A woman is
allowed to decide the events that would occur in the body. There are many situations, such as
rape and incest, where seeking an abortion is legal because it is used for reducing trauma and
shame. It cannot be considered to be murder as the cells are incapable of living outside the
womb and thus, in case of complications, it becomes mandatory to adopt the process. A fetus
is considered as a part of a woman’s body and therefore, it does not have any significance
outside the body; therefore, the harm to the fetus is not stated to be derogative in nature.
According to the opinion of Watt (2016), it is a mean of reducing the population as it is one
of the biggest concern in the today’s world, which pose a multifaceted issue, and is a burden
on the Earth. Therefore, it needs to be supported by achieving a balance in the Earth and
safeguarding the resources.
On the other hand, it is unethical as many consider it as murder as it involves
deliberately taking the life of an innocent human with any consent. Zulu et al. (2018) opined
that it is a morally wrong action that should not be taken. A woman does not have the
unlimited right of acting as per the need or as per their body. Therefore, one cannot use one’s
body to impair the life of another human being. In some cases, it is stated that fetus is a part
of a woman’s body; however; it is an independent in nature, which is connected to the female