This article is about the social movement. For other uses, see Pro-life (disambiguation).
Pro-life protesters make a silent demonstration in front of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
Abortion debatePart of the abortion series
Movements
Pro-choice
Pro-life
Issues of discussion
- Breast cancer- CPCs- Crime effect- Ethics- Fetal pain- Fetal rights- Genetics- Late-term- Libertarianism- Mental health
- Minors- Paternal rights- Philosophy- Public opinion- Religion- Self-induced- Sex-selection- Unsafe abortion- Women's rights- Violence
Pro-life is a term representing a variety of perspectives and activist movements in bioethics. It can be used to indicate opposition to practices such as euthanasia, human cloning, research involving human embryonic stem cells, and the death penalty, but most commonly (especially in the media and popular discourse) to abortion, and support for fetal rights. The term describes the political and ethical view which maintains that fetuses and embryos are human beings, and therefore have a right to life.
On the issue of abortion, attempts by pro-life campaigners to pass laws against abortion are opposed by pro-choice campaigners who argue that the central issue is a completely different set of rights. The pro-choice view does not consider a fetus to have full legal rights, so the issue is instead considered to be the human rights of the pregnant woman to choose to terminate her pregnancy or carry it to term. The pro-choice view believes that a woman should have complete control over her fertility and pregnancy and that this entails the guarantee of reproductive rights.
Pro-life protesters make a silent demonstration in front of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
Abortion debatePart of the abortion series
Movements
Pro-choice
Pro-life
Issues of discussion
- Breast cancer- CPCs- Crime effect- Ethics- Fetal pain- Fetal rights- Genetics- Late-term- Libertarianism- Mental health
- Minors- Paternal rights- Philosophy- Public opinion- Religion- Self-induced- Sex-selection- Unsafe abortion- Women's rights- Violence
Pro-life is a term representing a variety of perspectives and activist movements in bioethics. It can be used to indicate opposition to practices such as euthanasia, human cloning, research involving human embryonic stem cells, and the death penalty, but most commonly (especially in the media and popular discourse) to abortion, and support for fetal rights. The term describes the political and ethical view which maintains that fetuses and embryos are human beings, and therefore have a right to life.
On the issue of abortion, attempts by pro-life campaigners to pass laws against abortion are opposed by pro-choice campaigners who argue that the central issue is a completely different set of rights. The pro-choice view does not consider a fetus to have full legal rights, so the issue is instead considered to be the human rights of the pregnant woman to choose to terminate her pregnancy or carry it to term. The pro-choice view believes that a woman should have complete control over her fertility and pregnancy and that this entails the guarantee of reproductive rights.
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