Abstract

Abortion is a serious issue in the medical ethics and its proponents and opponents have raised many arguments in its favor or against it. One of the arguments raised against abortion is the reasoning through potentiality. Some philosophers of ethics take the fertilization as the beginning moment of being a person and deem abortion wrong. Although some other scholars do not believe that a human seed becomes a human being at the moment of fertilization, yet they consider abortion as morally wrong from the very moment of fertilization at first sight. This paper argues for the ethical non-permissibility of abortion via the idea of potentiality, though assuming that an embryo is not regarded as a person since the moment of fertilization. In addition to the exposition of this argument some related criticisms have been mentioned and analyzed.

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