Many clinics provide abortion services for women with unplanned or uncontrollable pregnancies. Some women find themselves with an unplanned pregnancy rather than an uncontrollable one. Unplanned in fact that a contraceptive failed, or may not have been easily accessible: uncontrolled in the sense of factors being greater than limited contraception. Abortion has been performed in many clinics as a treatment for unfit or unhealthy women, and for women who may have been molested or raped. Abortion shouldn't be used as a form of contraception, nor should women's lives be sacrificed to bear an infant before morally ready to commit. If a woman is raped, and the outcome incurs pregnancy, then abortion is an alternate form of controlling the unwanted pregnancy. Abortion should stand as only the woman's choice, never as a decision adverse to Pro-Life activists. Pro-Choice advocates seem to vindicate abortion, accepting that abortion is not considered a form of birth control, but merely a method of controlling the woman and fetus future. Women are the sole determinate persons in stating if they are capable of withholding a full term pregnancy.

Pro-choice followers do feel that there is a time when abortion is immoral and unethical, which is aborting after the second trimester. By the third trimester, a fetus has formed distinct facial features, digits, limbs, and internal organs. To anyone, this would be the equivalent to the physical human person. Warren states that, "the late term fetus has features which cause it to arouse in us almost the same powerful protective instinct as does a small infant." (133) The consequences of aborting late in the pregnancy can be dangerous to the woman's well being. It can cause mental and physical trauma a woman may not be prepared to undergo. If the circumstances were that bearing the fetus could pose a life or health threat to the woman, then it is accepted by Pro-choice believers to abort after the second trimester. This does not entail killing the fetus- usually labor is induced, and the infant is placed in an Intensive Care Unit. The mental trauma is still sustained, but the future life and health of the woman is known.

In conclusion, abortion is the intentional termination of pregnancy resulting in the death of the fetus. A fetus is a person and has a right to life. I believe Immanuel Kant would suggest that maybe a woman has a duty to abort a child for the mere fact that she has a duty not to bring that child into the world. On the other hand, he might state that she has a duty to give that child the right to live life to the fullest. The child may lead a prosperous life that leads to happiness and aborting it would deprive that. We as people have a moral duty to do what is ethically correct for the greatest amount of people. Utilitarianism is acting so as to produce the greatest possible balance of good over bad for everyone affected by our actions according to John Stuart Mill (51). Legalizing abortion affects us all. If no one were able to have an abortion, then everyone would have an equal right to life. Who is to say that is not for the greatest balance of good over bad for everyone. Abortion is seriously wrong except perhaps in rare cases.

the fetus will be born without abnormalities, or defects. Therefor, it is impossible to state that the fetus would ever even see a "FLO". It is wrong to kill peaceful or harmless persons, as Marquis argues, "the FLO account of the wrongness of killing is correct because it explains why we believe that killing is one of the worst of crimes."(141) Would it also be wrong to place an individual in the world that is handicapped, deformed, o

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