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Overview - Abortion
Viability outside of the womb (which as medicine advances is getting ever closer to the unique EEG standard; Gilbert, 2006).
There’s a broad spectrum of opinions on these questions, but in the most general terms combatants tend to line up as follows,
Pro-Choice Advocates
- Believe that life begins late in gestation.
- Are less likely to wrestle with questions of fetal humanity in favor of other concerns, particularly maternal illness and mortality due to unsafe abortions and lack of access to quality reproductive healthcare.
- Believe that the primary issue at stake is a woman’s freedom of choice regarding her body, her moral principles regarding fertility, and her sexual behavior—hence the moniker Pro-Choice.
- Promote solutions that emphasize reducing unwanted pregnancies through access to birth control and other forms of reproductive healthcare, including access to safe abortions.
Pro-Life Advocates
- Believe that life begins very early in gestation, the large majority believing that it begins at conception.
- Are less likely to wrestle with questions of maternal hardship and mortality in favor of concern for the preservation of pregnancies and as such, address maternal suffering only when it is believed to be a direct consequence of abortion procedures.
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