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Running head: CRITICAL REFLECTION ON ABORTION1Critical Reflection on AbortionNameCourseDateCourse Instruction

CRITICAL REFLECTION ON ABORTION 2Pro-abortion article: Peikoff, Leonard. "Abortion Rights Are Pro-Life." Abortion, edited by James D. Torr, Greenhaven Press, 2006.SummaryWhat is the issue in the article?The article presents views on abortion and advocates for the rights of a pregnant mother as opposed to the rights of the unborn.What is the conclusion of the issue, according to the author?The author concludes that the anti-abortionists support the potentiality for life in a mass of undifferentiated protoplasm while sacrificing the actual life of the mother. What reasons does the author give to support his/her conclusion?The author asserts that the anti-abortionists, who supposedly advocate for life, are ignorant of the fact that the mother is an actual life while the neonate is just a mass of undifferentiated cells within the body of a woman. Therefore, the pregnant mother has a right to decide on what to do with her body including the developing child and that the state has no right to intervene as it is a private matter. Furthermore, the fetus is biologically formed in the mother's organs where it is nourished for survival hence no ability to claim for an individual right against the host since “Rights only belong to individuals not...parts of an individual."Con article: Johnson, Douglas. "Abortions Should Be Restricted to Before Twenty WeeksGestation." Abortion, edited by Noël Merino, Greenhaven Press, 2014.Summary What is the issue in the article?

CRITICAL REFLECTION ON ABORTION 3The author proposes that the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) should prohibit abortion by passing a bill into law that bans the killing of unborn children who are past twenty weeks of development after conception. What is the conclusion of the issue, according to the author?The author concludes by challenging the Congress of the District of Columbia to considerthe available evidence for neonatal pain at twenty weeks after conception as prove for life. Therefore, enact a bill that prohibits abortion past twenty weeks of pregnancy. What reason does the author give to support the conclusion?First, there has been compelling evidence that there is life in the unborn child at or after twenty weeks of conception since through feta; surgeries the unborn is capable of responding to painful stimulus. Second, a neonate can survive in the neonatal intensive care unit by twenty-three or twenty-four weeks after fertilisation. Therefore, any unborn at twenty weeks of age should not beaborted since it already has a life. The violators should be prosecuted.AnalysisWhat are some underlying value assumptions of each side of the argument?A woman has a political right to choose what to do with her body including the unborn child which should only be judged morally but not by the law. For example, if one kills his/her dog, it's a personal choice since he or she owns it hence the state should not intervene. On the contrary, the unborn child has a life that should be respected though after twenty weeks of conception since a neonate can respond to pain stimulus at twenty weeks of fertilisation. Therefore, the pregnant woman should be restricted from carrying out abortion, except for critical condition, by the law.

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