ABORTION – NEGATIVE

ARGUMENT #1 – MOTHER’S RIGHT TO LIFE

 This dilemma really involves a conscious choice between two equally precious lives, if
the baby lives, the mother dies, and vice versa.
 For example, in Tubal Ectopic Pregnancy, both will die if the pregnancy progresses and
no one intervenes.
 While a preborn baby may not survive treatment for an ectopic pregnancy, the intent and
goal is to save the mother’s life, and not to end the life of the child.
 For the mother who elects to accept treatment that might end her preborn baby’s life, I
believe it’s important to offer compassion, not condemnation.
 “Life of the mother” is equal to “health of the mother”

ARGUMENT #2 – FREEDOM OF WOMEN OVER THEIR BODIES

 Reproductive rights, including abortion rights, are human rights.

 Everyone has the right to make informed decisions about their body and health – and to
determine whether or when to bear a child.
 Let’s take for example a rape victim, continuing her pregnancy to full term will be torture
for the woman.
 Rape, incest survivors and sexually exploited women must be free to discontinue their
unwanted pregnancies without risk to their lives.
 If a woman is not emotionally and financially stable, she has the choice to terminate her
pregnancy in as early as possible.

ARGUMENT #3 – IMMINENT DANGER TO THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER JUSTIFIES

ABORTION

 Essentially, both mother and child should be treated as patients. However, in the course
of treating a woman, if her child dies, that is not considered abortion.
 Aborting the baby is legitimate when a woman’s life is in danger.
 It may be ethical for a mother to have an abortion to defend herself from danger to her
mental and physical health that continuing with the pregnancy would cause.