Death, Personhood And Abortion: Death And Personhood

Fetus: Death and Personhood Abortion has become a strong debate for the society about whether it is morally permissible or impermissible to abort a fetus regarding the unborn child being a person, having a right to life, and its characteristic of personhood. Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy; ending the life of a fetus which leads to their death. It is taken into place considering the different factors, such as a women’s financial state and education, a single mother, in a case of rape, or the woman or baby has health problems. In the population of women, minors, and young women are the ones who might abort the fetus regarding those factors. Considering abortion, death is the action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the

According to Don Marquis, the fetus is a person and has the right to live because it is a biological human being and a human being in a moral sense (Lewis,2013, pp. 320). A fetus is a person some may say because it possesses some of the personhood characteristics. In the woman’s womb, a fertilized sperm turns into a blastocyst after 5 days and later turns into an embryo (human fetus), which eight weeks later the fetus develops a brain, heart, and all the other body cells and tissue (Lewis, 2013, pp. 293). At that moment, the fetus is conscious and alive, because the brain is slowly functioning and is pumping blood throughout the whole body. Soon, the fetus would form into a human figure and kick the mother’s tummy, and when the mother places her hand on her tummy, the fetus stops kicking shows a communication or connection. So, it is a wrongful act to abort the fetus because it has the potential to develop into a person.
Abortion causes pain and suffering to the unborn child because it is being killed using one of the methods of abortion: abortion pill or vacuum aspiration (Lewis, 2013, pp. 293). These two methods forcibly suck the fetus and placenta out of the mother’s uterus then the doctor crushes its little

It takes away the chance for a fetus to develop into a person and experience the important values in life and experience the love, faith, and support from their loved ones and the world. Who knows when a woman who did not undergo an abortion that a baby can bring a lot of happiness and change their life in a positive way. Killing a fetus is like killing an adult human which is not the right thing to do because it has the same moral status. The fetus is a person because it is alive and conscious in the woman’s womb and will soon develop into a person who will have all the characteristics of personhood. Death is the ends of one’s