This essay provides answers from a pro-life perspective to those who try to justify abortion in general by using the case of rape and the case in which the mother’s life is endangered. It provides arguments as to why abortion in the event of rape is morally illegitimate, while abortion in which the mother’s life is at risk is acceptable, but it does not justify other types of abortion.
Constitutional Rape: One of the main tenets of any law that concerns the use of retaliatory force is that it should be used only against those who are directly responsible for the early initiation of force. The harm here is the kidnapper, not the fetus, and the law legally consents to terminate the kidnapper (as the kidnapper is a heinous crime), yet not innocent, even if his dependence on the mother was a direct result of the rape.
Give me a like. Imagine two people who are enemies of each other, neighbors living in the same apartment building in Britain during Hitler’s bombing raids in 1940. A bomb he explodes into the building to make all possible exits to the cave, while destroying the wall that separates the neighbors. In fact, they are forced to share the same living space and work together in an effort to tunnel their mutual hatred (in this scenario).
This then justifies the killing of the other because of the inconvenience caused by it, despite the fact that the other of them caused it, or it would not be justice to demand, when he reached freedom, that the Nazi air marshal. Who had ordered the raid that had begun to be attempted as a war criminal? (I know that this scenario is extremely shocking, but it is abduction, and both are possible. And the circumstances here are to be compared to pregnancy by rape.
The issue of risk of life: No one is obliged to sacrifice his life to save the life of another. Thus, when it can be demonstrated to the physician that the mother’s life is substantially endangered by the pregnancy (that “substantial danger” constitutes material for science medical to be determined by conclusions from empirical observation), abortion can then be initiated as a last resort.
But this only situation, in which a legal abortion can be done by patrons and the principle of each person’s rights remains in faith, is not a typical situation. It is rather urgent, such events are directed by Ayn Rand in a commentary. Suddenly, “in The Power of Self.
Rand writes that cases are the exceptions to the rule, and are not the normal state of human life, or the ethics of human relations. To say that some extreme action is permissible in a case of necessity is not to advance that license in the realm of normal human existence as a basic ethical directive.
Therefore, because abortion could be justified as a last resort in the rarest of circumstances, this does not at all justify the legalization of general abortion, especially since many abortions occur because a woman has had sexual intercourse indiscriminately and does not want to incur the objective consequences of such acts, namely pregnancy and the obligation to raise a child.
