Question

A pro-life woman would advocate abortion if:

• A. the mother of an unborn child is suicidal.
• B. bearing a child conflicts with a woman's career prospects.
• C. the mother becomes pregnant accidentally.
• D. None of the above

Answer 1

The correct option is D None of the above

A pro-life woman views the foetus as a human life rather than as an unformed complex of cells; therefore, they hold to the belief that abortion is essentially murder of an unborn child. They see legalized abortion as morally intolerable.
Option (a) is mentioned in the following lines – ‘An additional 25 percent live in countries where it is allowed if the women's life would be endangered if she were to go ahead with her pregnancy’ and ‘By 1900, abortion was banned in every state except to save the life of the mother’. These views may not be necessarily reflected by a pro-life woman.
Options (b) and (c) are actually the views of a pro-choice woman (read the 4th and 6th paragraph).
Therefore, options (a), (b) and (c) are ruled out. Hence, the correct answer is option (d).