Abortion: Pro-Life is the Logical Argument

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Suppose your mother was not planning on having a child when she was pregnant with you. Suppose your father was abusive to her. Suppose she was not even ready to be a mother or prepared to have a baby. Aren’t you still glad that she didn’t put her right to choose what goes on within her body before your right to life? Ronald Reagan once said, “I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born” (qtd. “Quotations about Abortion”). Because a fetus is a human being from the moment of conception, aborting is murder and therefore it should be just as illegal as taking the life of a grown human is. Most abortion advocates do not argue that the fetus is not human. David Noonin, author of A Defense of Abortion, is quoted saying “there is no doubt in my mind that this picture, too, shows [my son] at a very early stage in his physical development. And there is no question that the position I defend in this book entails that it would have been morally permissible to end his life at this point” (“Medical Testimony”). While he doesn’t even try to refute that it is not a life, he still believes that it would be all right to kill his son at that age. Another advocate, Naomi Wolf, concedes enough to say that those who are for abortion need to “contextualize the fight to defend abortion rights within a moral framework that admits that the death of a fetus is a real death” (“Medical Testimony”). Both of these abortion supporters admit that abortion is killing, and Wolf even urges others to admit that. When the Supreme Court made it’s decision in 1973, the majority opinion was “the judiciary, at this point in the development of man’s knowledge, is not in a position to… resolve the difficult question of when life begins… since th... ... middle of paper ... ...e, though both are acceptable in some beliefs. These things are programmed into the human nature and as soon as society realizes that a person is still a person no matter what race, age, or gender, it will realize that any killing is killing no matter what race, age, or gender. From the moment of conception, the fetus has a right to life. It is also innocent regardless of the guilt of the father. The majority opinion of the Supreme Court in 1973 was because no one could determine when life started, but now that scientists have resolved that issue, Roe v. Wade should be reexamined and abortion should be made illegal. Our society has progressed from women inferiority and slavery to equal rights for men and women, no matter what race or gender. We now need to progress from allowing some murders because the victim is young to a society where every life is protected.

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