Don Marquis gives a different argument regarding the immorality of abortion from the standard anti-abortion argument in his “Why Abortion Is Immoral” article. Standard anti-abortion views, according to Marquis, are that fetuses are humans because they “look like babies” and “possess a genetic code.” Therefore, killing a fetus would equal killing a living human being. However, as Marquis further argues, both arguments are abstract and lose their plausibility under analysis. For instance, the argument “fetuses look like babies” is hard to be determined at the early stages of pregnancy. Moreover, Marquis questions the immorality of killing a human being to debate how abortion is immoral. He further says that abortion is not moral because it deprives us of a future value. In my opinion, the argument imposed by Marquis is more plausible and has no logic voids; thus, it is stronger, but neither of the arguments succeeds.
The argument presented by Don Marquis is rational because it states an apparent reason why people should be against abortion. Ideas like “the fetus have genes” do not offer a practical benefit of abortion’s immorality. On the contrary, Marquis’s statement states that abortion deprives a future value because a fetus is a future human who will bring some value into society like everyone. Another succession of Marquis’s argument is the absence of logic voids – for instance, it could be argued that contraception shall not be used because it risks losing future value. However, as Marquis later explains, there was an article misled, meaning there are millions of possible cell combinations, and it is unknown if the fetus appears.
Nonetheless, both anti-abortion arguments fail because some pro-choice arguments are stronger. For instance, the author states in the article that what makes “killing” a person or a fetus a severe problem is losing the victim’s future. If there is a case when a fetus or birth-giving endangers the mother’s life, doing abortion would not be considered immoral because a living human’s life can be more valuable than a fetus’s uncertain future.
To conclude, the anti-abortion argument presented by Don Marquis is stronger than the standard one because it is more reasonable and offering real value. Nevertheless, both ideas probably do not succeed because they fail to explain morality in specific cases. To be precise, in instances where a mother’s life or future is in danger because of the fetus, neither of the arguments is strong enough.