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When people claim that abortion is murder, what they seem to mean is either that abortion should be re-classified as murder or that abortion is wrong, or both. Either way, arguments are needed to support that, not question-begging slogans.
This essay about the assertion that abortion equates to murder examines the moral, religious, and philosophical dimensions of the issue. It explores the belief in the sanctity of human life from conception, bolstered by absolutist ethics and philosophical reflections on personhood.
Common Argument #1: A fetus is a human being, and human beings have the right to life, so abortion is murder. The Pro-Choice Argument: I'm probably not going to convince you that a fetus isn't...
This is why abortion opponents have warned of a slippery slope from abortion to infanticide and involuntary euthanasia; as pure logic, the position that unborn human beings aren’t human persons...
Abortion bans deny bodily autonomy, creating wide-ranging repercussions. CON. Life begins at conception, making abortion murder. Legal abortion promotes a culture in which life is disposable. Increased access to birth control, health insurance, and sexual education would make abortion unnecessary.
This chapter considers the claim that if the fetus is a person and abortion is killing, then most abortions are instances of justified homicide.
In an influential essay entitled Why abortion is wrong, Donald Marquis argues that killing actual persons is wrong because it unjustly deprives victims of their future; that the fetus has a future similar in morally relevant respects to the future lost by competent adult homicide victims, and that, as consequence, abortion is justifiable only ...
