Abortion

Abortion

Introduction

Abortion is morally justified if the mother to be is threatened by carrying the baby to full term. If a distinction is made between abortion and miscarriage (and generally there is), 'abortion' can be utilised when the death occurs before the fourth month of pregnancy, and 'miscarriage' for any thereafter. Alternatively, miscarriage can be utilised to mention to any and all spontaneous abortions (Mecklenburg 2001).

 

Discussion

Pro-life: A lesson viewpoint retaining that medically-induced abortion is wrong. Pro-lifers may have a register of situation under which abortion is agreeable, if there are critical deformities of the fetus, or if the pregnancy is the ...