A View on the Contemporary Ideas Towards the Moral Status of Abortion
A View on the Contemporary Ideas Towards the Moral Status of Abortion

Summary/Abstract: As we try to analyse the contemporary views on abortion, we identify two guiding lines. On the one hand, in many countries, legislations regarding abortion have reached a high degree of liberalization, never known before. We try to determine whether the citizens in the countries which allow abortion really think that abortion should be largely permitted. On the other hand, an extremely large number of people think that abortion is immoral, and some of these people actively fight for increased restrictions on abortion. And some countries do have a very restrictive system relating to abortion. We want to find out whether people and countries who declare themselves as anti-abortion really have an absolute view or if they admit abortion in some circumstances. Faced with this reality, we try to discover the meaning of an evasive attitude towards abortion. We wonder if having an opinion about abortion that admits exceptions doesn’t actually mean that abortion is considered to be moral in some circumstances, and immoral in other circumstances. In other words, we think that the morality of abortion is a dynamic concept. This means that the gap between pro-life and pro-choice activists is not as big as it has been considered before. Thus, we think that the disputes on the ideological level should be left apart and that people should try to find effective solutions to the real-life problems concerning the abortion issue.

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