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Abortion 7

Date Submitted: 04/20/2004 19:23:00
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 9 pages (2500 words)
All of the arguments against abortion boil down to six specific questions. The first five deal with the nature of the zygote-embryo-fetus growing inside a mother's womb. The last one looks at the morality of the practice. These questions are: 1.Is it alive? 2.Is it human? 3.Is it a person? 4.Is it physically independent? 5.Does it have human rights? 6.Is abortion murder? Let's take a look at each of these questions. We'll show how anti-abortionists …
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…dealing with premature babies. Although a preemie is obviously still only a potential person, by virtue of its independence from the mother, we give it the full rights of a conscious person. This saves us from setting some other arbitrary date of when we consider a new human being a full person. Older cultures used to set it at two years of age, or even older. Modern religious cultures want to set it at c
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