Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Ethics and medicine: Abortion

No matter who you talk to in the united states, they will have an opinion on abortion. This is just another one of those hot topics that never seem to be solved and keeps floating around in almost every political argument between liberals and conservatives. My personal opinion is that abortion should not be a legal matter, and that it is up to the woman themselves if their baby should be aborted or not. It doesn’t matter whether someone else thinks it is not the right thing to do, it is only the decision of the mother alone. However, many argue that this is considered murder and that this is not only an act against the law, but also Christianity as well.
The counterargument above is discussed in this pro-abortion blog (http://www.allaboutpopularissues.org/pro-abortion.htm). Although the last argument I stated was anti-abortion, this blog actually addresses the arguments against their position and is able to refute them properly. This blog mainly argues what I stated above with a few more arguments on peoples’ rights in general. Although this blog is one-sided, it does focus on the counterarguments and refutes them pretty well.
Another website I found was http://www.nrlc.org/, which mainly focused on the problems that can occur with abortion and had many arguments against it. Although this website is an organization website, I feel like it was less legitimate than the last website. This website I found was mainly one-sided and made me feel like there were not even counterarguments available. This website could have had a stronger stance if it added not only a few rebuttals, but also become less extreme than it is right now. Although this could have been just my personal bias since I am pro-abortion.

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