Ethics Of Care Essay

“Ethics of care. Rooted once again in a specific view of the world, this time a world of relationships and psychological truths where an awareness of the connection between people gives rise to recognition of a responsibility for one another, a perception of the need for response. Seen in this light, morality arises from a recognition of relationship.” (Weston p.203) Each person is responsible for one another. Society is interdependent and each person should be given compassion. To answer the question stated first we must analyze what is considered to be caring and compassionate. We determine what is moral based off of our compassion. Many other forms of ethical and moral reasoning are logical and no feeling is involved. Care ethics brings

A supporter of care ethics would deny that these two situations relate. Abortion deals directly with a woman’s right to her own body. Caring and compassion should be used when analyzing if it is right or not. The fetus may be innocent but we must give the woman the right to choose. Abortion is a harsh topic for women. A woman doesn’t want to be looked down upon by society so we should. As stated by Vanessa Siddle Walker and John R. Snarey, “To care for the self is to care for the group, and to care for the group is to care for the self.” (Weston p.210) Show compassion to the woman making the decision to abort an “innocent” life if she so pleases so that society may care for one another interdependently. We can say the same for a person facing the death penalty. We must show a little compassion on their life so in return we may get that compassion back. The moral answer is that execution and abortion has no right or wrong. But as a group we should show compassion and try to relate to each person and their situation. Then once we build that relationship we can decide what is moral and what is not. The conclusion to this is that to consider what is morally right and wrong we must let go of our