...such as inheriting a BRCA gene (a defective gene associated with increased breast cancer risk), being exposed to oral contraceptives, hormone replacement therapy, and hormonal changes. Many hormonal changes occur during pregnancy and may influence a woman’s chance of developing breast cancer later in life. There have been recent misconceptions that abortions may be linked to women having a higher chance of developing breast cancer. Only about 5-10% of women with breast cancer develop this cancer because they have had an abortion. The vast majority of women with breast cancer have not had an abortion, but there are some women with breast cancer that have abortion as an attributable risk according to Angela Lanfranchi. With all of the confusion to whether or not there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, there has been a significant amount of research to figure out the truth. Many studies have looked at a possible link between abortions and an increased chance of breast cancer also known as the abortion-breast cancer hypothesis. The hypothesis proposes that if a pregnancy is interrupted by an abortion, then more immature cells that developed in the growth of the breasts could be left than there were prior to the pregnancy, resulting in a greater potential risk of breast cancer over time stated by The National Center for Biotechnology. A woman who has become pregnant undergoes many physical changes to help her body adjust to carrying and providing for a child. One...
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...Abortion is Immature What would it be like to die so young and so fragile? What would it be like to kill something so young and so fragile? Abortion, in my definition, is the taking of a life. Now it is hard for me to sit here and type this paper when I know good and well that if my daughter or wife were ever raped I would want whatever was inside of them out -- immediately. I think that to take the life of an unborn just because the couple involved were too lazy to use contraceptives, is immature and quite horrid. In this informative paper, you as a reader will come to understand the facts on abortion and then understand where I stand. Let us begin. According to US Abortion data provided in 1995 by Planned Parenthood, there were 1.8 million first trimester abortions, 180 thousand second trimester abortions, and about four thousand required Hysterotomies. Now according to these figures we, as the United States, killed/aborted 1,984,000 fetus'. Sure we could keep down the increase in our population at this rate, but where would we be emotionally? Speaking from a "my" point of view, I wouldn't get to far. I enjoy children profusely and thinking that there are 1.9 million children less in the world every year sends shivers down my spine. But I guess you may say that it is not my place to speak. There are fewer deaths per million abortions than per million births according to the Planned Parenthood survey...
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...Abortion is Immature What would it be like to die so young and so fragile? What would it be like to kill something so young and so fragile? Abortion, in my definition, is the taking of a life. Now it is hard for me to sit here and type this paper when I know good and well that if my daughter or wife were ever raped I would want whatever was inside of them out -- immediately. I think that to take the life of an unborn just because the couple involved were too lazy to use contraceptives, is immature and quite horrid. In this informative paper, you as a reader will come to understand the facts on abortion and then understand where I stand. Let us begin. According to US Abortion data provided in 1995 by Planned Parenthood, there were 1.8 million first trimester abortions, 180 thousand second trimester abortions, and about four thousand required Hysterotomies. Now according to these figures we, as the United States, killed/aborted 1,984,000 fetus'. Sure we could keep down the increase in our population at this rate, but where would we be emotionally? Speaking from a "my" point of view, I wouldn't get to far. I enjoy children profusely and thinking that there are 1.9 million children less in the world every year sends shivers down my spine. But I guess you may say that it is not my place to speak. There are fewer deaths per million abortions than per million births...
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...ENGL 1001 – 22 Catherine Joseph September 25, 2012 Annotated Bibliography Abortion: Parental Consent Abortion is defined as the removal of a fetus or embryo from the uterus or a termination of pregnancy. The abortion debate is full of controversy as two opposing groups (pro-life/pro-choice) argue about the legal and ethical issues surrounding the debate. Sarah Glazer, author of the article “Roe v. Wade at 25,” discusses the 1973 Supreme Court cases that legalized abortion, which thus sparked unprecedented social change and the unsettling debate of abortion. One major aspect regarding this issue is parental consent; it is still undetermined [on both a state and federal level] whether parents should be involved in a minor’s decision to terminate a pregnancy. The following sources provide both pro-life and pro-choice perspectives over whether parental consent should be required or not. Many of the sources supported the idea of parental consent through a pro-life perspective. In Charles S. Clark’s article titled, “Teenagers and Abortion,” he expresses the idea of how parents have the right to be involved in any medical decisions regarding their child and suggests that teens may be too immature to make a grave, life-changing decision on their own. Hyman Rodman, author of “Should Parental Involvement be Required for Minors Abortions,” expresses the idea of how parental consent can benefit teens as they are able to make a better decision about their pregnancy with the input of...
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...Is Abortion Immoral? Question 1: Imagine two philosophers sitting on a bench at the county morgue. They are looking at the bodies being brought in and three in particular interest them. One is a woman who was six months pregnant due to rape and died from the pregnancy complication. She wanted to have an abortion but it (abortion) was illegal under all circumstances in her state. One is the body of a woman who died after attempting to give herself an abortion with a coat hanger. She was a poor woman who lives in the slums; she had no money to take care of the child and no way to feed her living children if she lost her work from the pregnancy. Another body is that of a one-month-old fetus that was aborted once the mother found out that it was going to be a girl. She has just had one child and wanted to wait for a couple of years to have another. While looking at these bodies the philosophers begin to discuss the question: “Is abortion immoral”? How would the discussion proceed if the two philosophers were: 1) You and Judith Thomson? 2) You ad Sidney Callahan? 3) Which position (s) do you find morally compelling and why? In this scenario, the two philosophers are sitting on a bench at the county morgue. They are looking at the bodies that died involving abortion’s issues. I will call case A – a woman who was six months pregnant due to rape and died from the pregnancy complication because abortion was illegal in her state. Case B is the poor...
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...Abortion plays a significant role today in the United States with it being the highest number of abortions in any other country ("Abortion Facts"). Approximately 1.1 million women in the United States have an abortion each year and nearly one in four pregnancies end in abortion ("Abortion Facts"). According to Abortion studies, teenagers who considers an abortion is influenced by her environment, her religious beliefs, her relationship with her parents, her access to family planning services, and the behavior of her peers (Lowen, "Top 3 Reasons Women Choose Abortion"). A few other reasons for considering an abortion may be not wanting their lives to be changed by the birth of a baby, not being able to afford a baby, or even too immature or...
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...for my portfolio is Abortion. I choose this topic because Abortion is really strong issue to me. I’m strongly against this issue. One reason this topic is interesting to me is that doctor have the ability to kill innocent babies. Another reason this issue interest me is that it gives women the right to abort within 24 weeks and sometimes even when the babies are fully grown and ready to be born. The last reason this topic is so interesting to me is that this is a ongoing rally, people fighting for pro- choice for its her body and people fighting for the poor baby, that doesn’t know anything thats going on with his or her body. I feel this issue is really big because it’s like war, mainly because people fight so much and then the problem is so strong other people cry with just fighting about abortion. This topic is a really horrible, and gruesome topic. It is also a really heartbreaking issue for some people. Some things I already know about this topic is there are three types of abortions fetal abortions, early term abortions, and late term abortions. Something else I know about this issue is that this is a procedure that doctors do for women when they don't want to be mothers, or made a mistake. So they get to erase their mistake by taking out the baby by killing it. Another thing I know about abortion is the way they kill the babies, they dismember the baby part by part to make it easier to pull the baby out. Also something else I know about abortion and how it affects people...
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...Abortion is an important option for women “One woman dies every 7 minutes around the world due to an unsafe illegal abortion.” (“Womens Center”) Preventing a baby might sound atrocious, but sometimes it’s the best option. Abortion should be a choice for all women who are in danger of financial instability, unsafe abortion, and unwanted pregnancy from rape. The United States has a large problem with financially unstable parents having children at a unpredictable and at immature ages. The young girls are not ready for the responsibility of raising a child when they are still yet children themselves. Women who cannot support a child for lack of money could give up the baby for adoption. However, the problem with adoption is that a child goes the rest of his or her life possibly not knowing their birth mother. Just think, if abortion wasn’t allowed women would be getting illegal, unsafe abortions done, with a potential of having harsh consequences. Hidden abortions can have a tragic side effect. Some serious side effects can be infections or excessive bleeding that can lead to death. In addition, there is a chance that the women may no longer be able to have a child again in the future. In the horrendous incident of a women being raped, the last thing she wants is a constant reminder of the past. It may not be the child’s fault; just the same it’s not the women to blame either. Having the child would be like reliving that same night inside her head repetitiously. Every day...
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...When someone hears the word “abortion”, the first thought that rushes into their mind is the death of an innocent human being. However, it’s not that simple. In 2014, over 650,000 women had to make the hard decision to end the life of their baby. Abortions don’t just happen. A mother only decides to terminate her pregnancy when she truly believes that she isn’t capable of providing a safe and loving environment for a child. Many may believe that abortions are a convenient, easy way out of a mistake, but it is much more than that. This procedure can prevent babies with severe disorders from suffering, financial crises, potential mental health problems, The United States Constitution guarantees our fundamental rights of privacy. There was...
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...Is it ethical to have an abortion? ETHIC ISSUE It is ethical or unethical to have an abortion. INTRODUCTION Abortion is a controversial social issue that has been continually argued over for the last 40 years. The pro-choice people and the pro-life people hold different opinion on whether or not a mother have right of abortion. “According to the pro-life position, the conceptus has an absolute right to life from the moment of conception onward. According to the pro-choice position, however, women have absolute rights over their own bodies and lives” ( Thiroux, J & Krasemann,2009).On the whole, when we talk about it is moral or not of abortion and whether or not abortion should be legal, we may mainly consider about the result for existence of abortion. This article will analyse this subject by using consequentialist ethical theories. FACTS ◆ 54 countries allow abortion, which is about 61 percent of the world population. ◆ Unintended pregnancies account for almost half of all pregnancies and four out of ten unintended pregnancies end in abortion. ◆ Out of the total number of pregnancies, 24% end in abortion. ◆ The number of abortions per year is approximately 42 million and the number of abortions per day approximately 115,000. ◆ 83% of all abortions are obtained in developing countries and 17% occur in developed countries. ◆ 1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the...
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...United States Supreme Court legalized abortion in the Roe vs Wade decision. Many people today are concerned not only with the legal and moral aspects of that decision but about the effects it has on women’s health. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan asked the Surgeon General to research and issue a report on the psychological consequences that abortion had on women’s health. According to the surgeon general’s research, there was not sufficient evidence to compile a report. He stated “obstetricians and gynecologists had long since concluded that the physical sequence of abortion was no different than those found in women who carried to term or had never been pregnant” (Koop, 1989, p.195). The American Psychological...
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...not. Abortion it is the deliberate termination of a pregnancy. This is done by taking pills also known as medical abortion or by surgery also known as surgical abortion. These procedures are used to cause the miscarriage of a woman pregnancy. Abortion is illegal in many countries, however most countries are fighting to have their abortion laws repealed. There are many laws that answer to the question of abortion. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Article (6) says “Every human being has the inherent right to life, this right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of their life.” The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a General Assembly Declaration adopted in 1948 and it includes provisions such as: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Article 3- Everyone has the right to life and liberty. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel and in-humane treatment. Both the UDHR & ICCPR set out the right to life and that is very clear. Also both the UDHR &ICCPR evidently don’t adequately address the issue of abortion, primarily because these two aspects of international law do not speak decisively on the issue of abortion. This “lack of decisiveness” is most evident because neither the UDHR nor the ICCPR state when life begins. So it can be stated that a level of ambiguity surrounds the UDHR & ICCPR as it relates to the issue of abortion. The question/issue of abortion is better...
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...accept other people’s decision. There are many topics related to medical law and ethics, three of the most common ones are Respondeat Superior: Latin: "let the master answer”, abortion, and Good Samaritan Law. In this paper we will be more focused on abortion. Abortion means ending a pregnancy before the fetus (unborn child) can live independently outside the mother. If abortion happens spontaneously before 24 weeks of pregnancy, it is called a miscarriage. An induced (or "therapeutic") abortion is caused deliberately in order to end the pregnancy. The decision of an abortion is extremely personal and varies from person to person. Usually abortions are safer in the first trimester, which is 12 weeks or before. Moreover, the female needs to be sure because once is done, there is no going back, and it will be too late. Everyone is raised different, may have different beliefs and opinions. For instance, the case of a woman named Alex, she wanted to have an abortion because she thought she was too young and she thought she could not do it with just her boyfriend’s help and they did not want to give up on their lives and goals. When she found out she was pregnant she was about 2 months, about 8 weeks so she still had time to get an abortion, even though she was Catholic and her religion is against abortion she was going to do it, but the night before she had a dream about a baby boy saying, “mommy, please do not hurt me.” She thought it was just a dream and still went to...
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...The Tragedy of Teenage Abortion In society today, teens are taught by the television and the media that pre-marital sex is not a bad thing. This problem is leading to many teenage pregnancies, that then lead to abortion. All over the world teens are faced with many challenges in their everyday lives. Sex is being portrayed as extremely appealing in the media, but what they don't show is the pregnancies and the unborn child that never asked to be created in the first place that is being discarded. Abortion is in no way acceptable, it is murder of an unborn child. Many doctors will say that abortion is not a bad thing, and it's not murder. They have argued that it is just an embryo, and is not yet a child. In the book The Terrible Choice: The Abortion Dilemma, Glanville Williams, a well-known English criminologist, was quoted saying abortion should be treated like a tonsillectomy. It's a minor operation to remove unwanted or harmful "tissue growth". Both tissues are alive, and contain material substances, chemical compounds, DNA and RNA molecules. They may vary a little, but they are mainly matter which is composed of cells which are composed of chemicals (1-2). The only difference between a tonsillectomy and an abortion is that the fetus can grow and develop into a human being much like ourselves. Joseph Farah wrote an article about abortion in The Human Life Review. In this, she quoted Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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...Today, I would like to inform you about birth control and hope to persuade you that teenage girls should legally be able to receive birth control without parental consent. After writing about and researching this issue, I have gained the appropriate knowledge to inform others on my position. This has been a controversial topic for decades, spread all around the world.Unstable parental relationships, ensuring feelings of confidence and safety in girls, and lowering the rate of abortions are among the reasons I believe that girls should have access to birth control without parental consent, because it would be safe for girls to prevent pregnancy while empowering young girls to be more responsible and educated. First, it is important to know information...
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