If one talks about the moral consensus regarding abortion, there are different implications that are talked about. During the course of this paper, we will see the perspectives of Reiman and Marquis with regard to abortion and how they implicitly value the moral value of the whole debate. Talking about the perspective of Reiman, there are legal implications to the cases that are about abortion that must be looked into to make sure that a better perspective is developed in this regard.
During the course of this work, the most prominent argument that he has made with regards to abortion is that how women who have been going through an unwanted pregnancy to the situation where someone is kidnapped and forced to do something that they really do not want to carry out. The right to use one’s body for one’s own purpose is one of the key arguments that one gets to see from Reiman. Comparing this through the process of Marquis, he takes the standpoint that every foetus has a chance and should be given enough opportunity to make their own future. What it does is that it implicitly states that once there is a foetus, it has become a life on its own, and they have its own set of rights and privileges that they have to take care of. The other argument put forth is that premature death, in any case, is always going to be a bad thing, and when someone opts for an abortion, they are depriving the foetus of future experiences. It is pretty much the same way premature death disconnects the chord of life. It can be seen both these researchers have unique perspectives about abortion, and it can be said that abortion is something that is still an area where moral ambiguity exists.
References
Reiman, J. (1998). Abortion, Infanticide, and the Changing Grounds of the Wrongness of Killing: Reply to Don Marquis’s “Reiman on Abortion”. Journal of Social Philosophy, 29(2), 168-174.
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