Abortion
AbortionTHE MANY SIDES OF ABORTION
The medical definition of abortion is, " the termination of a pregnancy by loss or
destruction of the fetus before birth. It can be either spontaneous or induced, and the
latter is an act with many legal and ethical ramifications." Abortion is a very controversial
subject and there are many different positions that one could take, none which are either
all right or all wrong. Before any one makes a decision as to how they feel on the subject,
one should look at the different sides to the issue.
When talking about abortion, there are many different ethical questions involved.
Ethics is what one uses to distinguish what is right from wrong, good from bad, etc. Since
people come from different backgrounds, they have a different code of ethics, therefore
answering the question of right and wrong can not be easily answered, and who knows if
it can ever be answered? There is no correct ethical or moral code for one specific time
period, or group of people, so one must decide what they believe on the issue of abortion,
by examining there own code of ethics.
I attended Catholic Schools for most of my life, and had Catholic beliefs and ideas
rammed down my throat for so long, that for a while I decided what ever The Church
believes, I am going to believe the exact opposite. So for many years I believed in
abortion, and thought of it as no big deal, and thought that if I was ever placed in a
situation that abortion was an option, that I would just go ahead and do it, but now that
has changed. I took a morality class my junior year of high school, and one day we
watched a movie on abortion, and it had some really graphic pictures of aborted fetuses,
and from the moment I saw that I totally changed my views on the subject. After much
thought I decided that abortion would be the wrong choice for myself, and though I don't
really agree with the principles of the subject, I don't have the right to say whether another
should or should not have abortion.
The position that I hold on abortion, is not the same as everyone else's, there...
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