There are many arguments as to why abortion is morally wrong. Philosopher Don Marquis proposed a new argument. He called this argument the “future like ours” argument. In the future like ours argument, it is claimed that since killing a person is wrong, then it is wrong to kill a fetus. In this argument, it is equally wrong to kill a fetus just as it is killing an individual. The argument simply states that if one kills a fetus, that individual is robbing the fetus of its future and the potential
of abortion has been around for centuries. Abortion, if you are unaware, is the deliberate termination of human pregnancy with the usage of surgery. Furthermore, the two contrasting views regarding this bout are pro-life, those who consider abortion as committing murder, and pro-choice, those who believe that it is a woman’s right to do to her body what she feels fit. Over the years, many arguments have been created regarding whether abortion is moral or immoral. Two known opposing arguments that
Don Marquis pointed out that abortion is serious wrong morally.His’ article,”Why Abortion Is Immoral?”,has been highly anthologized at April 1989. Marquis criticizes the argument between anti-abortion and pro-choice always uses the same point to attack each other.It is the result of stand-off results and forming a vicious cycle. Marquis explains why abortion is immoral without assuming the personhood of the fetus.It skips the argument of Judith Thomson, which is the right of the mother to choose
has lead philosophers such as Don Marquis and Judith Jarvis Thomson to give their opinions. Marquis’s piece titled, ‘Why Abortion is Immoral,’ argues, “…abortion is, except possibly in rare cases, seriously immoral, that is in the same moral category as killing an innocent adult human being…” (Marquis, 446). Whiles Thomson’s ‘A Defense of Abortion,’ in which she argues that abortion is morally permissible under certain conditions if we grant- for the sake of argument- that the fetus has a right to