A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ON THE MORALITY OF ABORTION

Abstract

The issue of abortion has over the years confronted mankind as a perennial moral burden. Indeed, it has become one of the most perplexing moral issues for mankind irrespective of culture or race. This is so because it borders on human individual private lives, hence it attracts the attention of most people. And it is therefore an issue people passionately hold to their views and usually handle it their own way irrespective of any orientations that appeal to one. Recently however, abortion question has assumed a new dimension as most people often pay lip service to the morality of abortion and this has led to the enormous cases of abortion worldwide. People’s attitude and approach to abortion usually turn out rather to a matter of “convictionâ€. In this case, however, the paper adopts prescriptive method in the examination of the issues and facts that led to these individual convictions on abortion. It is on this note that the paper posits that when one thinks of an abortion as an option or a remedy, there must be some profound reasons underlying it and one may perhaps not have chosen it out of mere pleasure.   Keywords-Abortion, Epistemic, Relativism, Discourse, Morality.