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ABORTION LAWS AND MEDICAL ETHICS.

ABORTION LAW AND MEDICAL ETHICS

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The debate about abortion has been a long war between pro life and pro-choice especially

in the west. While the pro-life hold that the use o contraception works unfairly to nature, and the

pro-choice on the other side, claim that a fetus is not a child until it is born. The two re just but

an example of argument that we always hear from both sides every time they hold each other in

the war of reasoning, making the topic on abortion one of the most emotionally active political

controversies.

English law that is used by almost every country in the world, has now become so

vulnerable that people want to bend it anyhow they want, when trying to make a point on what is

the best possible solution to a mother bearing unwanted pregnancy (Hart, 1971). First, a pro-life

will make an argument defending the rights of the fetus, who is in an antagonistic relationship

with the woman carrying it, by claiming that the fetus also has the right as a living being,

forgetting that even the mother carrying it also has a life to live. However, the English law states

that fetus is not a person, meaning, women should have much autonomy on the issue about

abortion (Scott, 2004; Madrazo, 2009). However, in the United States of America, and Ireland,

two countries where fetus is given much respect than the woman carrying it due to exiting

statutes, and the latest evidence I what happened at the Supreme Court in Texas.

Some questions we have failed to ask as to why women want abortion even after various

studies have proved it that women in most cases want to postpone and stop childbearing, unless

we don't even care to know why (Hewson, 2001). To families who are not financially stable

would want abortion as a family planning and some does it if there is no fatherly support to the

child (Kirkman, et. Al, 2009). Therefore, I would argue that compelling a woman to stop
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abortion and bear a child contrary to her wish to me is ethical nepotism. If indeed we live in the

world of free, then that freedom must involve making difficult personal choice.
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References

Hart, H. L. (1971). Abortion law reform: The English experience. Melb. UL Rev., 8, 388.

Hewson, Barbara. "Reproductive autonomy and the ethics of abortion." Journal of medical

ethics 27. suppl 2 (2001): ii10-ii14.

Kirkman, M., Rowe, H., Hardiman, A., Mallett, S., & Rosenthal, D. (2009). Reasons women

give for abortion: a review of the literature. Archives of women's mental health, 12(6),

365-378.

Madrazo, A. (2009). The evolution of Mexico City's abortion laws: From public morality to

women's autonomy. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 106(3), 266-269.

Scott, R. (2004). The English fetus and the right to life. European Journal of Health Law, 11(4),

347-364.