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A 6 page consideration of the issues surrounding abortion. This paper considers the contention that the human fetus should be protected at all costs because of its frailty and dependence. The author considers this contention in situation of rape and incest and in contrast to the right of a woman to control her own body but concludes that abortion can never be considered ethically or morally right. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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right to control our own bodies often comes into direct confrontation with the rights of others to life. This confrontation is particularly evident in regard to the issues of
abortion. Indeed, abortion, is one of the most controversial topics of our modern age. It has been debated by philosophers the world over, each with their own view
as to where the right to control ones body ends and the rights of a fetus to live begins. This same argument, in fact, has been extended to numerous
other facets of the right to life. According to Sidney Callahan, for example, our societal tradition of guaranteeing us the right to control our bodies extends by its very
nature to: "the wrongfulness of harming other bodies, however immature, dependent, different-looking, or powerless. The
handicapped, the retarded, and newborns are legally protected from deliberate harm." By far the
most controversial of these extensions, however, is the right of a fetus in comparison to the rights of the mother which carries that fetus.
The intrinsic value of life is a question which is constantly being considered in our courtrooms and in the halls of academia as well. It is
a question which involves economist, philosophers, bioethicists and numerous other professions and one to which the answer appears to vary according to just who is considering the question and around
such particulars as whose life is being considered (Thomas, 1998; Rolston, 1997). In the case of an unborn fetus this consideration becomes exceedingly complex. The right of a
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