Moral Issues Regarding Abortion, Constitutional Argument, and Religion and Abortion

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Is Abortion Morally Wrong?
Introduction
The abortion debate has been on the mainstream media for a long time especially during the election period in the United States. The Liberals and conservatives have never seen eye to eye on this issue and keep generating new theories and ideas to counter the other party’s opinion. According to Hannah Fingerhut (2016), currently, “only 56% think abortion should be legal” while 41% “say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.” The question of whether abortion is a moral issue or not has often surfaced during the numerous debates, and both sects still offer differing views. When analyzing the issue of abortion, several questions always seem to arise with some of the common ones being: are fetuses persons and do they have rights, do fathers have a say in the matter, are there distinctions between a person, being alive, and a human being, and finally, is it a woman’s right to decide what happens with her body (Cohen, 243). Politics has also played a big role in turning abortion into one of the most debated issues in the last four decades. As is always the case, politicians always feel the need to weigh in on issues and even enact laws on the same., In the case of abortion, however, the court has in some occasions shaped the debate and set the liberals and conservatives on conceptual battles. The universal belief of personhood is that it has a certain moral status which should not be infringed unless under extreme circumstances (Resnikoff, 2013). However, the question this article strives to answer is whether abortion is an issue that presents alternatives (right or wrong) or solely involves a difference in belief.
Moral Issues Regarding Abortion
The debate of whether abortion is morally right or wrong has indeed developed into a big and confusing conceptual fight. The liberals and conservatives often clash but never seem to find a common ground aside from only on a few occasions. One of the main issues that both sects seem to always argue or confront each other about entails the inclusion of fetuses into the moral community. Conservatives believe that fetuses are indeed part of humanity and terminating one is indeed as much a crime as killing an adult human being. Their argument is based on the simple fact that fetuses exhibit the same features as adult human beings (Don Marquis). The liberals, on the other hand, believe that fetuses should not in any way be compared to adult human beings. On their part, they believe that fetuses lack “the sorts of features that are taken to be necessary for inclusion in the moral community” (Don Marquis). Both factions have held firmly on their beliefs and neither seems to ever want to let go off their stand.
However, while talking about killing, it is important to first understand what killing entails and why we consider it to be morally wrong. A majority of people, including conservatives and liberals, believe that killing is wrong. However, few can firmly defend or give solid reasons why killing is wrong. Most people believe that murder causes suffering to other people which is indeed true. But few can give other reasons besides the one above. According to Don Marq...