Abortion

“Abortion stops a beating heart…” vs. “Western philosophy’s idea of the autonomous self: the pregnant woman is in fact both a person in her body and a vessel. Rather than seeing both beings as alive and interdependent—seeing life within life—and acknowledging that sometimes, nonetheless, the woman must choose her life over the fetus’s…”. Few issues have fostered such controversy as the topic of abortion. The participants in the abortion debate not …

…our sexuality. Men may come and go in our lives and can say they will support whatever decision we want to make, but as selfish as this may sound, the bottom line is we are women faced with a decision that is al! l our own. “They (abortion opponents) talk like we make this decision so cavalierly. Yeah, right. Like they need to make us feel guilt. Like there isn’t plenty of that already.”