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Abortion, which is sometimes known as induced abortion, signifies pregnancy’s deliberate termination by medical or surgical ways. Drugs are used in medical means. The unintended termination of a pregnancy resulting from a medical disorder is called a miscarriage or spontaneous abortion. An abortion performed to protect the health or life is known as therapeutic abortion. Arguments against and for abortion are diverse and plentiful; their quality ranges from good to bad, their conclusions vary from conservative to liberal, with a number of positions in between.
The conservative argument against abortion is that abortion is never, or virtually never morally allowable. Classically the “almost never” denotes the circumstances in which abortion might be permitted to save the mother’s life. On the other hand, the liberal argument for preserving access to abortion asserts that abortion is always or almost always allowable. The liberal argument is based on a certain perception of the moral status of the fetus. In one position, liberal argument argues that the fetus is not a person, not a being with full moral rights. Commonly, both the conservative and liberal positions maintain that abortion might be allowable to save the mother’s life, typically on the basis that the mother has a right to self-defense. However, the Roman Catholic view is that the fetus’s demise must be unintentional in any case. Abortion is, as a result, morally permissible because the fetus does not have a right to life, unlike the mother, who has an entire complement of rights.
Commonly, for the liberals, the event that makes the unborn a person is not conception but birth. Personhood is such an important concept in a way that against the liberal’s argument, the conservative can point out that if Warren’s viewpoint of personhood is correct, then a fetus is not a person, but neither is a newborn. In the end, it is uncertain that a newborn can meet Warren’s principles for personhood. I find the conservative view most plausible. It is for the reason that whether the fetus is born or unborn, it deserves equal rights. Abortion can only be done if the mother is at risk. It should never be done intentionally.
