Moral principles of Abortion
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end their unwanted pregnancies within 10 weeks <strong>of</strong> gestation with the help <strong>of</strong><br />
medical abortion. Doctors living in such places mostly recommend women to buy<br />
abortion pills to cancel their undesired early pregnancy.<br />
Are there ethical obligations <strong>of</strong> Women to the fetus?<br />
If a woman desires to have sex and/or didn’t use contraception appropriately,<br />
then she knew that pregnancy might result. Pregnancy means having a new life<br />
budding inside the womb. Whether the fetus is a human being or not and<br />
whether the states takes a position on pregnancy termination or not, it’s<br />
debatable that women have some sort <strong>of</strong> ethical responsibility to the fetus. May<br />
be this obligation is not strong enough to eliminate pregnancy termination as an<br />
option.<br />
Is it ethical to force women to carry their pregnancies?<br />
Suppose if legalized cancellation <strong>of</strong> pregnancy is eliminated, then the law will be<br />
stated that will force women to carry pregnancies to term. It might happen that<br />
usage <strong>of</strong> women’s body would be made to provide a place where a fetus can<br />
develop into a baby. This is the ideal <strong>of</strong> pro-life activists, but would it follow moral<br />
<strong>principles</strong>? Not allowing females a choice over being pregnant and procreating is<br />
not at all well-suited with justice in a liberal, democratic state. If anti-choice
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