Abortion: Pro-Choice Or Pro-Life
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Abortion: Pro-Choice Or Pro-Life
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Kimberly Daniels
Ms. Clara Wright
English IV
21 January 2000
Abortion: Pro-Choice or Pro-Life
Controlling Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explain the pro-choice and pro-life controversy of receiving an abortion.
I. Introduction
A. Definition of abortion.
II. Thesis statement
A. Pro-choice
B. Pro-Life
III. The views
A. The moral viewpoint
B. The murder viewpoint
C. The restriction viewpoint
D. The parental consent viewpoint
E. The rape justification viewpoint
F. The safe viewpoint
IV. Conclusion
A. First Amendment
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Abortion: Pro-Choice or Pro-Life
But oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to desperation which impelled her to the crime [abortion] (Susan B. Anthony, 1869). In the Scott, Foresman Advanced Dictionary, Thorndike and Barnhart defined abortion as the removal of a developing embryo or fetus from the uterus to terminate a pregnancy before birth resulting in death of the fetus (3).
The abortion issue has become one of the worlds most controversial problems of today. This issue is divided into two sides, pro-life and pro-choice. They focus on different aspects of receiving an abortion. At one end we have the pro-choice advocate---those who focus on womens right. The pro-choice supporters have reason to believe the fetus is only a potential human being. It has no right whatsoever, because the right belongs to the woman carrying the fetus, and it is she who decides on the length of time of the pregnancy. On the other end we have the pro-life ---those who oppose abortion and focus on the fetus rights. They believe the fetus is a human being and has just as much legal right as the parents.
The Bible states that everybody was created in the image of God. Therefore, taking the life of an innocent child is like killing the image of God. In the Bible, God said that thou shall not murder. Websters Dictionary and Thesaurus has defined murder as the unlawful and intentional killing of a human being (133).
Is abortion moral or immoral? According to pro-life supporters, the unborn child is entrusted to the protection and care of the mother carrying it and yet the majority of the
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time it is the mother herself who makes the choice of whether or not the child should be aborted. The decision to abort the child may have come from problems dealing with the health of the mother or standard or living for the family. However, these excuses never justify the intentional killing of an innocent pe...
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