Abortion
Since unborn fetuses are both human and alive, no one has the moral right to reject their human identity or deny them life. Abortion is generally defined as a medical or clinical procedure which results in the termination of the existence of a human fetus. In the United States, an impassioned debate has been waged for decades between pro-life advocates and pro-choice advocates concerning the morality of abortion.
In response, pro-choice groups have responded with a variety of arguments over the years, ranging from defending a woman's right to control her own body to arguing that aborting a human fetus before it reaches a certain stage of development is morally acceptable because the fetus isn't really human yet. Subsequently, the ongoing debate over abortion has yet to be fully resolved because of the difficulty in determining to everyone's satisfaction whose rights should take precedenceĀthe mother's rights or
the baby's rights.
Unfortunately, pro-choice advocates refuse to accept that abortion is morally wrong because it deprives the aborted human victim of life. To objective observers, it seems quite evident that even though women have the secondary right to control their own bodies, the right to life of a human fetus supercedes the right of a woman to control her own body. Because a fetus is human, because it is alive, and because its right to life is a greater moral consideration than a woman's right to choose, abortion is morally wrong, and should be illegal.
Abortion 3
The first compelling reason why abortion is morally wrong is that fetuses are human. A human fetus was conceived by human parents, so it stands to logic that if it is not human, then none of us are human. A fetus consists of human tissue and human DNA, and has a unique set of chromosomes that makes it a separate human being. Pro-choice advocates, who claim that abortion is morally acceptable until...
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