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Subject: Ethics
Topic: Abortion should be banned.
The banning of abortion is a debatable topic based on various ethical elements. The complicacy of this topic arises in seeking to establish whether the fetus should be granted human rights.
Some of the moral lessons from the support of abortion include: Women are accorded independence and control over their bodies to make reproductive & parental choices for their future; banning abortion violates women’s rights to enjoy their citizenship (Gonzales v. Carhart, 2017); human hood starts after birth when a fetus can live on its own; hence abortion does not terminate an independent human being. Other moral lessons from the support of the abortion ban include: Life starts at conception; therefore, unborn babies are humans with the right to life; abortion advocates a notion that human life is disposable; thus, legalization of abortion communicates that human life has a nominal value.
Ethical egoists would say that the morality of abortion solely depends on the mother in line with her interests. They argue abortion is immoral if it does serve the mother’s interests. And even if abortion is restricted in the community, it doesn’t mean having it is terrible. Ethical egoists would be on the side that supports the legalization of abortion rather than the ban.
Social contract ethicists would say that abortion is termed legal in the following instances; when the mother has a mental illness; where the pregnancy is as a result of crimes like rape; where the child would have cases of physical handicaps, genetic problems & mental defects; when there are social problems like poverty; when it is used in regulating of population.
In conclusion, most individuals that support the ban of abortion agree that the mother’s health, abortion can be morally acceptable, i.e., if there is a genuine risk of damage to the mother’s life.
References
Hansen, Dale (2014). “Abortion: Murder, or Medical Procedure?”. The Huffington Post.
Coleman, PK (September 2011). “Abortion and mental health: quantitative synthesis and analysis of research. The British Journal of Psychiatry.
Paul, Adrian, G., (2010). The sin of abortion and the anthropological implications on the fate of human life. Romanian Journal of Bioethics.