Noonan's is an extreme anti-abortionist. He believed that once conceived, the being was recognized as human because he/she had human's potential. The criterion for humanity, thus, was simple and all embracing: if you are conceived by human parents, you are human. He believes in four pro-choice criteria for human being. The first criterion is viability. Viability is the point in time in which a fetus lived attached to its mother determines the fate. Notion of viability is that fetus is depended on its mother in order to live, and if this dependence is taken through abortion, then it is actually a right of life taken from a living human being. The second view is experience. Experience as defined through Noonan is, " A being who has had experience, has lived and suffered, who posses memories, is more human than one who has not..." Here he points out the stage of fetus when it can be responsive to touch and can feel the environment around him/her.
Human fetus, age unknown
Human cheek cells
A 3D ultrasound taken of a fetus at 20 weeks.He compares this stage of fetus to of an adult who has aphasia has lost his or her memories- his or her "experience": Noonan asks rhetorically if this means the humanity of the adult has been erased. In this argument Noonan is implying that if there is an absences of experiences during fetus stage of human life, we can not deprive the fetus of his/her right to life. The third case is sentiment. Sentiment in this case means that if the fetus dies, it won't receive the same grief as for a living child because it hasn't been named or had personality. Noonan views this while contrasting different races among human kind. He portrays his feelings that if one human being is of different skin color or of different sex, we won't say...
Christian position
Recently, the moral and political issue of abortion erupted onto the American scene. Never before have we, the individuals who retain certain unalienable rights, ever faced such a dilemma in moral decision-making. Now, the Christian community has sought answers to this dilemma in an attempt to put the debate to rest. For sometime now mainstream Christians have gravitated to the "right" side of the issue by quoting passages alleged to protest the abortion procedure; Such passages as Psalm 139 and Exodus 20. Indeed, predominant Christian activists Ralph Reed, Christian Coalition leader, and Gary Bauer, President of the Family Research Council, have tackled the issue head-on by addressing legislation in the political tendrils. Although the Christian position eventually selected its preferred stance (pro-life or anti-abortion), other Christians have since rivaled what was thought to be the "Christian position".
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