The moral permissibility of abortion is an issue of utmost controversy and debate in both the philosophical community and in the general public. There are people that believe that abortion is never permissible in any circumstance. Others believe that abortion is always and only permissible if the mother chooses to abort. And there are those who stand in the middle with beliefs that abortions can be ethically sound in certain situations. I will first examine …
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…relies on female autonomy through reproductive freedom. In conclusion, the only person capable of truly knowing weather an abortion is morally permissible or not is the fetuses mother. The mother must make this decision by carefully weighing her own life factors. The only person that has any right to choose if a fetus should be aborted or not is its mother and therefore the moral acceptability of abortion rests intrinsically on the pregnant woman's decision.