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... Wade decision, while providing for some semblance of legal structure to the political debate over abortion, has led to further question within moral and religious aspects of our society. In that decision, the Court found that a woman had the right to choose whether or not to abort a pregnancy within certain constraints; however, if a fetus were a person, according to the Court, abortion would be found impermissible. ... Upon the moment of conception, the human embryo is a person; and as a result, emolument of the fetus occurs simultaneously, making its abortion an act at odds with moral rectitude, and a sin within the teachings of the Catholic Church. ...
While the point of viability becomes an invalid argument in defining the instance in fetal life takes on human rights under the law, it may still be argued that "what really matters for the issue of abortion, is not when the human organism begins, but. ... This lies at the heart of the issue, as abortion can only be wrong morally if it kills someone, as opposed to just killing a biological organism (something). ... Lacking the capacity for consciousness, rational thinking, feeling, and perception, one could argue that after conception there is room for an early abortion in which no person is destroyed. ...
Now that it has been established that a fetus can be identified as a person upon conception, one can approach the moral and religious aspects of its abortion with an understanding that, for all intents and purposes, the Courts definition of fetal personhood is more or less irrelevant. ... Patricia Beattie Jung, in her article Abortion and Organ Donation, makes reference to a Sidney Callahan quote regarding the rights of fetal life, and the call to the realization that fetal personhood also encompasses emolument:
Just as women and blacks were considered too different, to undeveloped, too biological to have souls.
Approximate Word count = 1434
Approximate Pages = 5.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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