Pro-Choice vs. Pro-Life
Introduction
Both pro-choice and Pro-life are terms loaded in the mainstream media. The words coined about ideologies on abortion rights. In reality, conversations relating to reproductive health are usually intricate. While views about abortion vary, other champions for legal and safe abortions. Due to the heaviness of the complications, there is no consensus when life begins. The gray area in the Pro-life and Pro-Choice debates is far from near. However, society is still opinionated about matters of abortion. In this discussion, we shall focus on the Pro-life and Pro-choice perspective point of conflict and the ideologies of womanhood.
Pro-life activists believe in opposing abortion and euthanasia. According to Jost, the concept of fetal pain exposes the stark reality that abortion takes the life of a developing person; a person who will live, breathe, have emotions, and, yes, feel pain (long before 24 weeks of development (2010). For instance, they protect the rights of mothers and prenatal children. However, they are usually concerned with the life of the fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus. Many at times, this has led to accusations on the abortionist for being sentimental. Moreover, their language allows critics to point out the obsessiveness. Pro-life argues that abortion is similar to consumerism, a practice in which human life has merely dignified the debate on abortion is a struggle in many outlets. Although language and subjective experience of pain debated if ‘pain’ defined as ‘perception and response to noxious stimuli,.’ it is evident that fetuses are capable of illness by 22 weeks gestational age at the latest; possibly earlier, as fetuses do respond to touch as soon as 7.5 to 8 weeks” (AAPLOG, 2018, ). During dilation and evacuation, an abortionist dilates the cervix then uses surgical pieces of equipment to dismember and extract the parts of the fetus. Thus, compromising the health and safety of women as well as the life of the pre-unborn child. Abortion hurts babies. Pro-life advocates are tracking the development and researching ways of transforming the world’s most contentious debate.
Abortion rights movement, also known as pro-choice, believes indefensible moral choices about pregnancy. For instance, Pro-choice activists present that fetal pain is dismissive. Pain is, therefore, dependent on psychological developments that support cognition, and self-awareness and these psychological developments need time to appear. Fetal distress is not possible because of the lack of growth necessary to help the experience” (Derbyshire, 2008). In 2015, Amelia Bonow and Kimberly Morrison launched a digital campaign dubbed #shoutoutyourabortion, encouraging women to share their abortion experience to denounce the stigma surrounding abortion. In the women’s right arguments banning abortions advocates for business for unsafe abortions. The second observation presents Women subjects to various restrictions. Thus freedom and life choices are limited by unwanted pregnancies. However, the pro-choice movement insists that the callous attitude to the fetus is the least of several bad decisions. They also claim that fetuses are not independent, and abortion involves the termination of pregnancy and not the baby. Rigorous scientific studies have found that the connections necessary to transmit signals from peripheral sensory nerves to the brain, as well as the brain structures required to process those signals, do not develop until at least 24 weeks of gestation” (Koff, 2019).
In reality, conversations relating to reproductive health are usually intricate. As we have seen in the discussion, Pro-life and Pro-choice perspective point of conflict and the ideologies of abortion. The arguments between the two sides need a lot of research. The issue of abortion is the most contentious debate not only in the United States of America but in the world. Since most people are still stubborn.
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