The Immorality of Taking the Future from a Person: The cons of abortion based on the ideas that a fetus has potential for a future.

Abortion is one of the oldest controversies the United States' political systems and society have faced. There is no black and white area of this topic because many different angles by which a person can analyze the issues have been developed over the years. It is my personal belief that abortion is immoral. Based on the ideas that a fetus has potential for a future (Marquis, 1989) and that a fetus is a person, based on …

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