Abortion is Moral

Abortion is Moral

On the question of abortion being moral, the answer is clearly that

terminating a fetus' life under certain circumstances is not only moral, but it

is also our responsibility to terminate it if the quality of life is in

question for the fetus. A second major reason is that to declare abortion

immoral would mean that we would have to consider the factor of how the

conception came about. This cannot and should not be done.

Quality is a major factor in the question of the morality of abortion.

When parents decide to keep or not keep a baby the issue of adoption does not

play into this. The reason for this is that once the baby is born that the

parents may change their mind if they want to keep it. Parents must decide at

the onset of the pregnancy to decide if they can in good conscience bring a

child into the world, if the answer is yes, then people should proceed with the

pregnancy and then determine whether they want to give the child up for adoption.

It is a parent's moral responsibility to make sure that the environments which

the child will be brought into will be healthy and supportive. It is a far

greater crime to treat a child poorly for eighteen years then it is to terminate

a fetus that cannot think, feel or is aware of its existence.

On the second point of making the way that conception occurred a non-

factor I am not saying that having the babies of rapists or in cases of incest

is okay. Still, for the argument that abortion is immoral, you must argue that

the action is immoral, not the child. The child cannot be either at this point.

If we are then talking about the act of abortion then who is to determine right

and wrong. A court of law should have no place in this decision. The primary

interests in this pregnancy should make the decision themselves. This would

normally be the parents of the fetus. The action in the case of rape is

defiantly immoral, but the fetus is not. To say that the abortion is moral