Abortion Debate

Abortion is one of the most controversial issues of our century. Abortion is at once a moral, medical, legal, sociological, philosophical, demographic and psychological problem, not readily amendable to one-dimensional thinking. This kind of issue must be seriously considered because it actually deals with human life. Even now abortion doctors and sharp instruments forcefully take out hundreds of fetuses from mother's womb both legally and illegally. There is no line explicitly protecting human life in the U.S. Constitution; however, such a line is incorporated in the U.S. declaration. The purpose of this essay is finding out whether abortion is truly constitutional or not.

Like any other political issue, abortion also has two perspectives on it. They are pro-life and pro-choice. All people should know their basic ideas on abortion. Their perspectives and ideas are totally different so that they cannot amalgamate their ideas together.

Pro-choice is a perspective on abortion that women should chose to get a free access to abortions if she follows the legal process. People who consider themselves "pro-choice" take many positions. Even in this perspective there are two views on it. Some people believe that a woman should have free access to abortions up until fetal viability. On the other hand, some people say that a woman should be able to choose to have an abortion later in pregnancy. They believe that the pregnancy start at implantation of the fertilized ovum in the wall of the uterus. Further more, they think that an infant cane be consider as a human at birth. According to pro-choice supporters the abortion is the termination of the life of a blastocyst or of a morula, embryo or fetus before viability, after it attaches itself to the uterine wall. Basically, what they are saying is that the mother has right to choose abort her child before the baby is fully developed to come out.

Another strong perspective on this issue is pro-life. Pro-life is a belief on abortion that life becomes a human being who is alive at the instant of conception and he or she has a right to be protected under the law of the government form that moment. This movement began in the early 1970's. A person needs to oppose totally to any kinds of abortion if you consider yourself as a pro-life supporter. However, in the early 1980's, that standard of belief was diluted to include those who get a sexual harassment such as rape, incest, and the life of the mother exceptions. Nowadays, anyone who only opposes the partial abortion can call themselves pro-life supporters. This idea is growing in very fast speed. Generally, pro-choice's definitions of abortion and when does life begin is lot similar to normal medication's definitions.

Both pro-choice and pro-life supporters have their constitutional arguments over each other. They have different views on abortion because they do not agree that a fetus inside of the mother's womb is a human being just like rest of us. Pro-choice supporters say a woman has the right to choose to abort the fetus. Pro-choice supporters allow doing that because of their basic understanding that the beginning of life is when the fetus actually can feel pain. They believe that a fetus is the part of woman's body, and therefore a woman can rid of it if they have to or if they want to.On the other hand, Pro-life supporters are saying that you cannot abort the infant because they believe that unborn infants are human beings just as we are and therefore be protected.. Pro-life supporters try to use the 14th amendment, basically saying that every human being should have equal protection under the U.S. government and its laws. Pro-lifers try to use 8th amendment, essentially saying that no cruel and unusual punishment can be conflicted on any human beings.

Pro-life also had many good logical arguments in many ways. Their point that infants are human beings and therefore should be protected under the U.S. government and its law was really made sense. Their definition of the beginning of the life was really appealed especially to religious society. Almost all religions will definitely accept the beginning of the life starts at the conception because it doesn't happen by a chance. Infants should treat as human beings because they will eventually become just like other individuals who are living on earth right