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Abortion

In the modern, developed, democratic world, abortion is unethical, or at least it should be. The USA is considered to be an etalon of democracy and a country which devotes itself fully to human rights protection. The United States has overcome many unethical issues in its history, such as slavery (with its legacy of racial discrimination) or gender inequality. Currently, all women regardless of skin color can benefit from all the human and civil rights granted by the American Constitution and society. However, many of these lucky females misuse and overuse their privileged rights by using the one to have abortions. Abortion is an act of killing, regardless of how people might refer to an unborn child: a baby, a fetus, or simply “it”. The organism which evolves inside a female body is alive at any of the stages of its development. By definition, a living being has a life, thus, it must have a right for this life as one of the basic ones granted to human beings. The main problem in this case is that democracy has not gone deep enough to reach the rights of an unborn child. It is so because of the ongoing debate on whether the unborn organism should be treated as something inanimate and unconscious or as an individual with traces of personality. This whole dispute is unethical as well as the practice of abortion. In a civilized world, there should be no disparity considering this fact. It is unethical to deprive a living human being, even in the uterus, of its right to evolve into a future human and citizen. I would rather say that it is unethical to take away a human being’s life, especially in the uterus, where it is so helpless and fragile. One might object to this argument on the basis of the fact that democracy and freedom of choice should apply primarily to a pregnant woman. The latter must have a right to decide whether pregnancy is what she needs, whether she is financially able to provide her future child with everything he or she would need for a happy life, whether she wants to bring a child in the world with all its evils such as diseases, pollution, wars, etc. Many people think that a female has a right to determine the fate of the fetus in accordance with her own needs and vision of life. There are numerous cases of unwanted pregnancy which put women, especially young ones, into a difficult position. Some of them have not finished school and are too immature for the role of a mother; some have career goals to achieve and pregnancy ruins these plans; some are afraid of the prospect of raising a child as single mothers; some have no financial basis to bring up a child; others simply do not like children and do not see themselves as mothers at all. Any or all of the aforementioned reasons may be used and, in fact, are being used by thousands of females in the USA every year. The act is based on the belief that every woman must be free to decide for herself and her child as long as it is a part of her body. Respectively, through abortions, thousands of women get a chance to come back to “normal” lives they have had before getting pregnant. Although it is true that thousands of women’s lives are not ruined thanks to the option of having an abortion, this objection does not weaken my argument because thousands of lives do end at that point. Those are the lives of the unborn children which were cut short for the sake of “not ruining” their mothers’ lives. Viewed from this perspective, the price of women’s happiness and satisfaction with lives they return is the high price of lives of their unborn children which are not simply destroyed, but taken once and for all. Speaking of the democratic right such as the freedom of choice, every unborn child must also have a right to decide, according to this rule. However, an unborn child does not have a voice to be heard. Since an unborn child cannot be heard, since his or her obvious willingness to live cannot be voiced, ethics remains the only way for such children to be heard and protected. Indeed, unplanned pregnancy is challenging, but difficulties and inconveniences should not be a reason or a moral right for taking lives. I agree that in some cases, abortion can be justifiable and understandable (e.g. when a victim of a rape gets pregnant and wants to get rid of a child as a reminder of that horrible event) or even recommended (e.g. in cases of medical contraindications when the fetus threatens the carrying mother with complications or even death). However, even in these cases, abortion is by no means ethical. Abortion, as an act of killing, is always unethical, even when it is justifiable, unavoidable or recommended, and especially if it is done for no objective or strong reason.

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