Abortion

Abortion Crime or Not

By: Vickie A Houston

PHI 103 Informal Logic

Instructor: Peter Ingenhutt

4/22/12

Abortion Crime or Not

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Legalizing abortions allows for more people to be better informed and make a decision that is best for them. Those not based on myths and fears but in truths.

Introduction

When looking at whether abortions should or should not be legal you have to look further than right and wrong. This is because it becomes an ethical question, because people religious beliefs, personal experiences, and upbringing way in to this decision. That being said there is much more at stake that one person’s view of what is right or wrong so no one person should have the right to make this decision for another. For one person’s beliefs systems are put into question when the next says it is or is not right. Many people that really want to have abortions will find a way and have found ways whether or not it was legal in the first place. This only put more people in danger by creating a desire to find other means to get the work done no matter how unhealthy and ever dangerous the ways of performing the abortions may be. Based on the information here it would be completely illogical to make it illegal for women to have abortions. The other thing about allow people to have abortions is we allow for guidelines to be created as well as for more correct information to be given out. Guidelines for when abortions can and cannot be performed are need though due to the fact that it becomes a question of murder after a certain part of the gestation process, although different cultures disagree at where that line falls. It should also have stipulation that call for every person that wishes to have an abortion have all the needed information to make well informed decision and not move on emotions. When giving out all the needed information to make an informed decision the numbers of abortion actually drop rather than grow.

A Question of ethics.

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