Abortion is a very delicate issue and in Europe it is still not allowed freely in some countries (and forbidden in Malta under all circumstances), which require one of certain conditions: permitted to save woman’s life, to preserve her mental or physical health or in the cases of rape or incest or foetal impairment (Poland, Spain and Portugal). In addition to that could be economic reasons (such allows the UK and Finland). In the rest of European Union the availability of abortion is upon request and most of the time is permitted until the twelfth week of pregnancy. This is how laws about that matter differ in EU.
Although laws across European countries differ, they have one thing in common: there is nothing about father’s right to decide or at least help to decide on this matter. Some of potential fathers want to be a part of this decision and demand rights. On the other hand as it is seen from the article sometimes a man puts a pressure on his partner to terminate pregnancy. Additional facet to consider is that often it is seen as it is women’s body and therefore her decision. But is it morally right to instantly exclude man from this? In the end a woman herself could not get pregnant.
Many women decide to terminate pregnancy because they say it would break their careers. Another moral issue that could be seen here is if abortion is moral itself. Even if it is stated that embryo becomes a foetus between ninth and twelfth week if not terminated it will become a person anyway. Isn’t this already a humans life form? Could the termination be called “killing” as for example Christian religion name it? Is it morally permissable to deprive embryo or foetus to live because of a potential parents’ mistake, lack of responsibility or an accident?
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If I understand the story of the writer, he claims that it is unethical to kill a human being deliberately is the idea that we have rights. We have these rights because we are human beings. Therefore, I belief that this arguments states that the fetus has rights, since it is a human being. You can look at this statement from another perspective. Human beings have rights not because they belong to a biological specie, but because it has other features. These features could include self-awareness and self-determination. This argument is called the personhood argument and states that mental capacities rather than biological species determine an entities right.
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