Social Argument

The argument I chose to discuss is the pro-choice argument versus the pro-life argument. What makes this argument so controversial are the many variables that it represents. Here they are as far as I'm aware, there may be more presently or in the future. Being religious or secular; believing in a woman's right to make decisions for her body versus believing that every 'person hood' has his own right; Belief in when the person is actually a person dictates someone's belief also. The problem with all of these arguments is that they are opinions. There is no 'night and day' to the data; it is all in the gray area which allows people to come to their own conclusions. Their literally is no right and wrong to this argument, except for those whose viewpoints contradict the opposing viewpoint. This is a tough choice for me to discuss because of the ambiguity of the argument itself. Even the science itself is arguable by opinion. Science is split, because some people believe that "Zygote" is the name of the first cell formed at conception, which is the earliest developmental stage of the human embryo, followed by the "Modula" and "Blastocyst" stages. Others believe that no matter how often a fundamentalist uses the incorrect word to indicate a fetus, the fetus is and always will be a fetus until it develops sufficiently to be birthed. Some believe those at 6 weeks the human embryo looks more like a tadpole with a pronounced tail, and is not a person at all. This controversy has become a battle of women rights, and purportedly the oppostion want to suppress woman's rights. I am of the belief that women should have all the rights that men have, but I believe in a child being a person at the moment of conception. Many, like me, who have this belief, are obligated to fight for the right of every unborn child. If we believe that a fetus is a child, then wouldn't we fight for every unborn child? On the other side, those that believe that person-hood is bestowed upon the born fight for their belief too. It is a difficult argument, and each represents something entirely different. Those that believe a person must be born to be a person; they believe and fight for women's rights. Those of us that believe that conception creates a human being respect women's rights, but do not believe that it supersedes the rights of an unborn human being.