(Yes, this article is a bit old)
The article is briefly about debate rising from confused criterion on time point when a life begins. A term for "ability to maintain life," viability plays a significant role. It is indisputable that once a fetus is considered to be viable, exercising power over a fetus so that it is killed should be punished with homicide. Trying to find a middle point between pro-life and pro-choice campaigns, the argument over viability expands even further: to sperm and egg in extremities and embryos in current scientific level. The article focuses on suggesting pro-life and pro-choice campaigns' arguments and this being expanded thanks to the scientific development.
Because the article is about so many topics - abortion, debate between the camps, fetal rights and complicacy of viability due to medical advancement that enables survival of fetuses that would have been aborted otherwise and specific cases - I would focus on abortion only. As a pro-choice rather than pro-life, I believe that parents should have decision over the abortion. However, there should be a limit on age of the fetus so that a full baby is not aborted. About the matter, I believe this does not have to be argued when the fetus is fully grown because with current level of medical technologies, it is nearly impossible to abort a fetus on such developmental stage. Due to Roe v. Wade court decision, abortion is primarily allowed on pregnancies from sexual assaults and deformation. In reality, there are numerous cases of pregnancies from failure of family planning and such case leads to unwanted marriage, which often causes increasing divorce rates. As leaving more room for parents' will to intervene would leave more leniency so that parents can have higher quality of life - as sometimes, asking for responsibility is not the best option.
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