abortion

ABORTION Abortion is an issue that evokes, on all sides, very strong feelings and judgments and very heated debates. Most opposition against abortion is that the fetus is a living being from the point of conception. This brings up the premise that the fetus is a human being, are a person. Religion has played a major role in the attitude toward abortion as well. The "pro-life" argument then is that the act of choosing to …

…of us must make a personal moral decision about when human life really begins. And live in accordance with that decision while letting others do the same and not fighting are killing over it. Bibliography A Survey of Selected Philisophical Literature on Abortion by Lawrence N. HinmanStephen D. Schwarz, The Moral Question of Abortion (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1990). Bonnie Steinbock's Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses (New York: Oxford, 1992)