Реферат: Untitled Essay Research Paper Abortion Life

this little one because abortion is the taking of a human life? This fact is undeniable; however much of the members of

the Women’s Liberation Movement, the new Feminists, Dr. Henry Morgentaler or the Canadian Medical Association

President feel about it, does not alter the fact of the matter. An incontrovertible fact that cannot change as feelings

change. If abortion is undeniably the taking of human life and yet sincere misguided people feel that it should be just a

personal matter between a women and the doctor, there seems to be 2 choices open to them. (1) That they would

believe that other acts of destruction of human beings such as infanticide and homicide should be of no concern of

society and therefore, eliminate them from the criminal code. This I cannot believe is the thinking of the majority,

although the tendency for doctors to respect the selfish desire of parents and not treat the newborn defective with a

necessary lifesaving measure, is becoming increasingly more common. (2) But for the most part the only conclusion

available to us is that those pressing for repeal of the abortion laws believe that there are different sorts of human beings

and that by some arbitrary standard, they can place different values on the lives of there human beings. Of course,

different human beings have different values to each of us as individuals: my mother means more to me than she does to

you. But the right to life of all human beings is undeniable. I do not think this is negotiable. It is easy to be concerned

with the welfare of those we know and love, while regarding everybody else as less important and somehow, less real.

Most people would rather have heard of the death of thousands in the Honduras flooding disaster than of a serious

accident involving a close friends or favourite relatives. That is why some are less disturbed by the slaughter of

thousands of unborn children than by the personal problems of a pregnant women across the street. To rationalize this

double standard, they pretend to themselves that the unborn child is a less valuable human life because it has no active

social relationships and can therefore, be disposed of by others who have an arbitrary standard of their own for the

value of a human life. I agree that the fetus has not developed it’s full potential as a human being: but neither have any of

us. Nor will any of us have reached that point: that point of perfect humaness, when we die. Because some of us may

be less far along the path than others, does not give them the right to kill us. But those in favour of abortion, assume that

they have that right, the standard being arbitrary. To say that a 10 week fetus has less value that a baby, means also that

one must consider a baby of less value than a child, a young adult of less value than an old man. Surely one cannot

believe this and still be civilized and human. A society that does not protect its individual members is on the lowest scale

of civilized society. One of the measures of a more highly civilized society, is its attitude towards its weaker members. If

the poor, the sick, the handicapped, the mentally ill, the helpless are not protected, the society is not as advanced as in a

society where they are protected. The more mature the society is, the more there is respect for the dignity and rights of

all human beings. The function of the laws of the society, is to protect and provide for all members so that no individual