Antony Weston has presented the concept of Abortion in his book A Practical Companion to Ethics. He has positively explained that the negative feelings about abortion are wrong with respect to the condition of the baby inside the woman. The emotional commitment to the growing mass inside the body is the thing that leads to the problematic thoughts of abortion as a bad thing. Abortion is a relief from an unneeded child, and a healthy way is to abort the pregnancy rather than destroying a future individual’s future by lack of parental support and complete attention. Abortion is also considered as the problem of killing babies in the book, and it was highlighted that the act of abortion shows the nature of the person as it is her personal right, and she must be given an opportunity to live as she wants.
In contrast, abortion is described as an ethically wrong act, and it is always advised to avoid pregnancy rather than acting against it in the wrong way, which is abortion. The time of pregnancy is the development of a new life, and only the mother’s body is the place where the child is placed and nourished by nature safely. Abortion is an action against nature, and it is an uneven act of giving a chance for a life to come and then letting it end without a solid reason. From an ethical perspective, abortion is completely unacceptable, and early precautions are advised to perform rather than to perform unethical approaches.
The concept of abortion is highly accepted in countries like Japan and the Buddhist community, where there are even graveyards for the fetuses. There are reasons why abortion is considered a positive act because if unwanted children are allowed to come into this world, then they would be homeless. Abortion is also a way to control the birth rate and an unethical way to allow the woman to decide her way of life without any difficulty of being engaged in an unwanted burden of pregnancy. The poor people are unable to survive with so many children, so they also require some way to limit pregnancies, which is only abortion.
From an ethical point of view, the act of abortion belongs to personal ethics. Many organizations are against the act of abortion and give their female employees a chance to give their womb to develop in a care and stress-free environment. Their working hours are lessened, and they are supposed to work in a comfortable environment rather than struggle. The National Right to Life Committee, the U.S. Catholic Conference and Planned Parenthood are the companies that have discussed against the proposal of allowing abortion as it is an unethical practice in the community. The poor women are forced to do abortions for their survival of jobs, which is also an unethical way.
In making creative strategies to handle abortion, it can be considered that there are many societies that are performing ethical ways to prevent pregnancies. Also, to end the pregnancies by just poisoning the child in very premature conditions, which include the removal of the fetuses from the human body. Abortion is an unethical subject, but still managing the problems of the individual who is having the pregnancy would be the priority. There are women whose lives are in danger because of pregnancy, and for them, abortion would be a lifesaving technique. The technology is enhanced and improved which would help in securing the life of people as well as to protect the society from wrong actions.
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