Abstract
Abortion is a sensitive and contentious issue with religious, moral, cultural, and political dimensions. It is also a public health concern in many parts of the world, as it raises questions about basic beliefs regarding life and death, the sanctity of life, the beginning of life, and a woman’s individual legal right. Abortion is illegal in some countries such as Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Senegal and the Philippines, and legal in other countries such as Great Britain, Greece, Poland, Israel, and Turkey. Ethically, opponents considered abortion as equivalent to murder and that such killing of a fetus is deprived of future value, and no matter how much women may suffer, women can’t be allowed to kill their fetuses. Whereas, proponents considered abortion as morally justified and that the pregnant woman has the fundamental right to terminate her pregnancy. The current authors are against abortion to preserve dignity and respect for a fetus and regard the killing or termination of human life as morally wrong. The purpose of this paper is to present arguments on abortion from the legal and ethical views of opponents and proponents.
 Keywords: abortion, legal, ethical, opponents, proponents, argumentations.
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