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Anti-abortion supporters argue that abortion is morally wrong on the basis that a fetus is an innocent human person [79] or because a fetus is a potential life that will, in most cases, develop into a fully functional human being. [80] They believe that a fetus is a person upon conception.
Mary Anne Warren, in her article arguing for the permissibility of abortion, [2] holds that moral opposition to abortion is based on the following argument: It is wrong to kill innocent human beings. The embryo is an innocent human being. Hence it is wrong to kill the embryo. Warren thinks that "human being" is used in different senses in (1 ...
A doctor who believes abortion is always morally wrong may nevertheless remove the uterus or fallopian tubes of a pregnant woman, knowing the procedure will cause the death of the embryo or fetus, in cases in which the woman is certain to die without the procedure (examples cited include aggressive uterine cancer and ectopic pregnancy). In ...
While there is no set doctrine among member churches on if or when abortion is appropriate in cases of rape or incest, or to save the life of the mother, the NAE's position on abortion states, "...abortion on demand for reasons of personal convenience, social adjustment or economic advantage is morally wrong, and [the NEA] expresses its firm ...
President Trump’s assertion that the Supreme Court returned the issue of abortion solely to the states is a completely inaccurate reading of the Dobbs decision and is a morally indefensible ...
Julio Cabrera believes that the moral problem of abortion is totally different from the problem of abstention of procreation because in the case of abortion, there is no longer a non-being, but an already existing being – the most helpless and defenseless of the parties involved, that someday might have the autonomy to decide, and we cannot ...
This is who is affected by abortion legislation.
A Defense of Abortion is a moral philosophy essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1971. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the right to life does not include, entail, or imply the right to use someone else's body to survive and that induced abortion is therefore morally ...