Abortion

Abortion PHI 125 After reading many positions on abortion, I have come to the conclusion that a fetus is a person and the right to life of a fetus outweighs that of a woman’s right to bodily integrity. Hence, that abortion is immoral. Supporters arguments are that a fetus has no right to life at all based on the belief that is does not meet a set of criteria for personhood. Therefore, a woman may choose to abort at anytime during her pregnancy. Some may say that a woman’s right to bodily integrity outweighs a fetus’ right to life. I wish to expose the fallibility of these arguments. Warren argues that a fetus has no substantial right to life on the basis that it is not a person. She bases this belief off of a set of criteria that suggests that these components are most crucial to the acceptance of personhood. Warren’s criteria are “consciousness, reasoning, self-motivated activity, the capacity to communicate, and the presence of self-concepts and self-awareness” (Warren p16). This set of criteria works of the belief that any being that does not meet one of the five criteria is not a person. abortion, abort, fetus, right, life, criteria, permission, one, woman, woman’s, person, body, activity, wish, warren, sexual, personhood, intercourse, integrity, immoral, fetus’, communicate, bodily, believes, believe, war, take, grant, brain, because, argument, warren’s, voluntarily, set, say