Religious, moral, and legal rhetoric of abortion argument

Abstract

The issue of ‘right to life’ is a most recognized fundamental human right in all democratic set-upsunquestionable in both legal and moral spheres but it comes into contested mode regarding its absoluteness with an interplay of law and morality in cases such as in matters of ‘Abortion’ activity. The western Christian states especially the common law adhering countries have much perennial debates over the subject and the necessity of a comparative study of abortion laws cannot be denied for a better conceptualisation of the study over the subject ‘abortion’. The study of three western nations having common law system has been taken into consideration for the purpose of finding gaps and controversies.The aspect of the studyis to benefit each society from each other’s experiences for best suitability of the practice in different situations and learn from each other. For the better objectivity of the research findings some western philosophical arguments also been taken into account with Christian ethos much prevailing in their ideas and propositions having influences over the society causing effects over law making.