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A 5 page research paper that, first of all, examines arguments both pro and con on the issue of abortion. Then, the writer analyzes these arguments and offers a personal view as to which one is correct. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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slaughter of innocent life (Levine 22). Those who are favor the right to an abortion, the "pro-choice" people, consider abortion an option that should be available to women, believing that
all women have the right to control their reproductive lives. Professor of Christian ethics Beverly Wildung Harrison argues for the "pro-choice" position. She begins her argument by pointing out
the dichotomy inherent in a society that on one hand, argues for the sanctity of human life, but on the other, continues to incorporate a structure of coercion, "even violence,
against women as morally appropriate to its functioning" (24). After emphatically announcing her position that reproductive choice is a necessary prerequisite for obtaining any adequate "notion" of what constitutes good
society, Harrison goes on to address what exactly is meant by the word "right," as in a "right to life" (25). She insists that a plausible account be given to
establishing a criteria of what is required to be considered a "full member of the class of human beings" and, therefore, entitled to "rights" (25). Harrison goes on to
lay out a criteria of five points of what she proposes constitutes "personhood," i.e., characteristics that define being human. These are: 1) consciousness, and in particular the capacity to feel
pain; 2) reasoning, a developed capacity to solve new and relatively complex problems; 3) self-motivated activity; 4) the capacity to communicate; and 5) the presence of self-concepts and self-awareness, either
individual or social or both (26). She concludes that a fetus does not possess any of these criteria. Harrison does qualify her endorsement of abortion regarding the later
stages of gestation. She states that abortion in these instances "are not to be undertaken without serious justifications" (27). However, even in late pregnancy, she argues that the emotional
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