The article examines arguments opposing women's right to voluntary interruption of pregnancy, thus basing its own stance in favor of the right to abortion. Examination of contradictions in "right to life" discourses goes beyond life-threatening situations or pregnancies resulting from rape. Considering the mother as a moral person includes, in the stance sustained in the text, the right to guarantee her own life and to choose how it is going to be lived. In this analysis, abortion is debated for its political, moral, and philosophical implications.
abortion; right to life; individual; moral obligation; pregnancy; choice