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A consequence of this argument is that abortion is wrong in all the cases where killing a child or adult with the same sort of future as the embryo would be wrong. For example, if involuntary euthanasia of patients with a future filled with intense physical pain is morally acceptable, aborting embryos whose future is filled with intense ...
Christianity and abortion has a long and complex history. There is scholarly disagreement on how early Christians felt about abortion. Some scholars have concluded that early Christians took a nuanced stance on what is now called abortion, and that at different and in separate places early Christians have taken different stances.
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.
She sees a push-pull between judges, anti-abortion lawmakers and Americans who by and large favor abortion rights. Column: Two years after the Supreme Court's abortion decision, meet the expert on ...
Legal scholars and political scientists point to major missteps at the start which left the Roe vs. Wade decision vulnerable.
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 ...
And while a total national abortion ban is extremely unpopular (in the typical poll, less than 10 percent say abortion should be illegal in all circumstances), many Americans were fine with Trump ...
South Africa: A 2003 Human Sciences Research Council study examined moral attitudes among South Africans: 56% said they believed that abortion is wrong even if there is a strong chance of serious defect in the fetus, while 70% said they believed that abortion is wrong if done primarily because the parents have low income and may be unable to afford another child.