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Abortion ‘is to deliberately induce the miscarriage of a foetus’. This act, has been, and still is today, one of many criminological issues influencing and encouraging many writers to research and state their individual views concerning the abortion topic. Many authors simply state facts and provide evidence of the law of abortion, and those surrounding, however, others promote different opinions to challenge the laws and justify their views. The following is a review of the current academic literature on abortion perceived by a handful of different authors expressing their views and thoughts on the topic.
The Catholic Church is one of the loudest opponents of accepting and legalising abortion. ... Mary Kenny in ‘Abortion: Whose Right?’ has created a sharp analysis of abortion rights involving the Catholic Church who affirms the right of an unborn child not to be killed. Social attitudes towards abortion within the Church have changed dramatically because of the shifts shaped by abortion law reform. For example, it was once considered that no abortion can be justified, including those in which the pregnant mother would result in the loss of her life, two deaths were considered better than one murder. However, even the Catholic Church, with all its opposition to abortion, has compromised to the view that if a mother is in a position where her life is at risk with the pregnancy, the foetus shall be sacrificed to save the mothers life, but only in these extreme cases should an abortion take place, otherwise the Church still affirms the right of an unborn child not to be killed.
In contrast to Mary Kenny’s work, David Boonin in a ‘Defense of Abortion’ addresses the religious critics by his interpretation of cited religious works, including that of Pope John Paul II’s encyclical letter on abortion, euthanasia, and capital punishment, avows that the natural law that underwrites the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion is accessible to “every person sincerely open to truth and goodness” including “believer and non-believer alike”, and the text itself maintains at several points that this law is “knowable by reason itself’. If we are to engage critics of abortion on their own terms, then, we must reject any argument for the claim that abortion is impermissible whose validity depends on essentially religious assumptions. ... Boonin offers the following advice to be aspired to for anyone considering to enter the abortion wars, “don’t get trapped into making it a religious issue - it is not - it is a human rights issue, a social justice issue”.
Boonin‘s work examines many arguments representing the various possible perspectives from both critics and defenders of abortion. His well researched arguments and counter arguments invoke the thought that abortion, at least in typical cases is morally permissible and morally speaking a woman who has an abortion violates no rights. ...
From a feministic point of view, Albury, author of ‘Beyond the Slogans: The Politics of Reproduction’, stands strongly by her opinion of decimalising abortion. ... She argues that laws, rules and rights refer more toward the male rather than the female gender and believes that the legalisation of abortion rights will give women the sense of freedom, to make the choice of bearing a child when they chose to do so and not because of an unwanted pregnancy.
Approximate Word count = 2510
Approximate Pages = 10
(250 words per page double spaced)
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