Marry Ann Warren View On Abortion

Introduction: There are three main different views of the abortion debate. Most of the debate is if the fetus is considered a human or not is the main argument. For the pro-life side of the abortion debate, they mainly say that it should be considered human. Of course the pro-choice feel just the opposite usually. I personally, consider myself to be Pro-Life because I don’t think that we have enough information on the fetus and I could never consider killing a human (or even a fetus). I feel that the parents should have taken responsibility and taken the appropriate actions such as choosing abstinence, or at least using contraceptives. Hopefully, you will agree after looking at the opposition and their views/arguments against my view. …show more content…
Ultimately, she argues that the fetus are not human beings therefore, we should not worry about if we should be able to kill them. She states that the fetus is genetically human, but she claims that research has shown that a fetus is not morally a human. Genetically human is known as a member of the homo sapiens species and being morally human can be summed up by saying one that gives us traits that make us have moral rights. She compiles a list of attributes that make a human morally human: consciousness, reason, self-motivated activity, communication, and self-awareness (not necessarily all of them). She concludes that because the fetus is not morally a human until around the third trimester, so the fetus is not a human until that point, which makes an abortion acceptable any time before the third trimester, or around twenty or so weeks. However, she doesn’t agree with allowing the individual to have an abortion done after reaching the state where the fetus is morally …show more content…
She doesn’t think that the fetus is in fact morally human, but for the sake of the argument accepts this principle. She then comes up with her own version of the Pro-Life view. She temporally goes along with the argument that the fetus is a human and that it has a right to live, but then she argues that a woman has a right to decide on whatever she wants to have happen to her body (this would be the controversy to this theory) but still the fetus has a better propriety than the mother because the right to life is more important than any non-tangible options. Therefore, the fetus cannot be killed. She then gives a very extreme example known as “The Violin Player Analogy”. Here, this states that theoretically an individual goes to a concert and suddenly this individual blacks-out because somebody shoots them with a tranquillizer gun, or something similar. The individual wakes up connected to the musician that they went to see. The individual must then stay connected to this musician for nine months to keep them alive until a transplant could come in. Here, she reaches the argument that most would say it is okay to just get up and leave. She explains that the individual is like a mother and that a fetus needs the mother to survive like the violin player, therefore if the mother does not want to let someone use her body for nine months, she does not have to let the fetus use