...number of illegal abortions has decreased and the protection of woman has increased, this is because abortion has become more readily available, nevertheless that could change. The law regarding abortion and women’s rights are being observed at for changes for the worst, the elimination of abortion clinics, a diminution in the number of qualified abortionists and the harassing of women who consider an abortion. This raises an important question, “Should the decision of having an abortion be up to the mother or society?” To decide which choice is right, stakeholders will be analysed and issues surrounding abortion will be looked at. Though the ideal choice is for the mother to decide. Abortions are the deliberate termination...
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...answer is yes. But it is a shame that abortion is destroying our dream and faith. It can not be denied that abortion is acceptable for some people as it exactly provides them a few benefits but quantities of evidence have proved that abortion should be banned as it not only do great great harm to mother’s health and society but it is also immoral indeed. So, please save the poor babies and ourselves! Hundreds of studies prove that abortion can harm mothers’ health a lot as abortion is unnatural, seriously against the law of nature[1]. Some peole supporting abortion may think that if only they can tolerate the pain during the pocess of abortion, then everything will be fine. However, they may be wrong! Aborion can do worse than that. Quantities of gynaecologist have warned that abortion can lead to several problems such as an increase risk of breast cancer and barrenness. It is because when a woman is going to give birth to her baby, a surge of endocrine hormone will appear in her body, getting the mother into the preparation for the coming of her sweet heart. But abortion forces the pregnancy to terminate, suddenly disturbing the excretion of endocrine hormone and leaving the mother’s body to lose her balance which leads her to become more delicate in fornt of diseases. Therefore, abortion should be banned. Besides the harm to women’s health, abortion also impact society much! [2] Quantities of supporters of abortion argue that abortion is just a personal chioce but in fact...
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...the Texas Review of Law and Politics. In this article, Mr. Adams’ discusses the reasons that Norma McCorvey, (formally known as Jane Roe), now wants the Supreme Court’s decision to be overturned regarding a women’s right to have an abortion. Mr. Adams’ creates a thesis in his article that he feels support the reasons why Roe v. Wade should be overturned. Adams’ main thesis and focus regarding this article is that, abortion actually causes more harm to women than good and that the Constitutional basis regarding abortion is political fiction. In the article the author questions at what point is a human life a citizen and when does a human life have a right of its own? The author believes that an unborn child should have the same protection of all other humans....
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...So far we have been focused either on normative ethics, which studies what features make something good/bad, an act right/wrong or a trait virtuous or vicious - or metaethics, which studies philosophical questions about the meaning of ethical words, or the nature of ethical facts 2. Applied ethics is a distinct category of ethical philosophy A. What is applied ethics? 3. Deals with difficult moral questions and controversial moral issues that people actually face in their lives Examples: the moral issues regarding… abortion euthanasia giving to the poor sex before marriage the death penalty gay/lesbian marriage (or other rights) war tactics censorship so-called “white lies” etc. A. What is applied ethics? 4. Given the time we have left in the semester, we’re going to focus on only two example issues: • Whether or not we are morally obligated to help the less fortunate (especially those in other nations) • Whether or not abortion is morally wrong 5. Why we haven’t spent more time on this: • Often results in gridlocked or endless discussions • Having some prior knowledge of some normative theories helps give a framework for discussion • Brings in issues that are not philosophical E.g., a discussion about whether or not the death penalty is morally OK may require sociological information about its effectiveness, etc. B. Suggestions for having good discussions 1. Abortion is a very emotional and charged issue - Students are bound to have strong, conflicting opinions. - Many...
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...Abortion: Should Parents be able to abort their child? You are a parent, sitting in a doctors office. You have just found out, your child has a birth defect. What are you going to do? You can either abort the child, or continue the pregnancy. This is a very difficult decision for parents to make. Parents should not be allowed to have an abortion because it harms the woman mentally and physically; it is a cruel way to kill a fetus, and it causes future problems in pregnancy. Terminating a pregnancy is a cruel way to kill an unborn because the fetus can feel pain, it limits the number of children to be adopted, and there are organizations who will find a family who can support the child if it has a birth defect. During the procedure, any pain inflicted on the fetus can be felt. In fact, a fetus at the twenty week mark can feel pain more intensely than a grown adult. Abortion also limits adoption chances. Families will take in children with birth defects or disabilities. There are organizations who will take in children with birth defects and find them a good family. The family will be able to care for the child and pay medical bills. The abortion procedure is cruel and torturing to a fetus....
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...Pro-Life How would you feel if someone took away your ability to live? Many women across the United States are having the procedure of abortion done, which is the termination of a pregnancy. To kill an unborn using horrible procedures is not only wrong for the doctors to perform, but morally wrong too. I believe abortion should only be legal if it is done in the first trimester of pregnancy or if a pregnancy will physically effect the mother. Besides those reasons, abortion should be outlawed because abortion is considered murder, unwanted babies can be adopted, and abortion can harm the mother’s body. Abortion is simply murder because you are killing a living being for your own interests or reasons. Firstly, pro-choice activists believe that aborting a fetus is not murder because it isn’t a human being yet. According to an article from sexinfo.edu on arguments for and against abortion, “The fetus is a human being from the moment of conception, this means abortion is murder.” Secondly, pro-choice activists also say that the baby will not feel any pain which is not only untrue but it also is painful for the mother. According to an article called Do Unborn Children Feel pain, “Many pro-life doctors maintain that fetuses can feel pain by 8 weeks after fertilization (about the time most surgical abortions take place).” Lastly, it is unfair to the baby who has no say in anything to be aborted. “The child who is in the womb of the mother has not done anything wrong to deserve...
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...Don't judge someone because they sin differently than you (by Lauren Elise) For hundreds of years women helped each other to abort their pregnancies. Without legal prohibitions, women in Europe and the United States provided abortions and trained each other to perform the procedures. In the past century different states had begun to outlaw any procedure that would terminate or avoid pregnancy. In 1973(?) the United States Supreme Court asserted a woman's constitutional right to abortion in determining Roe v. Wade. After several decades of quiet disagreement, abortion has once again become a political hotbed. Under the direction of religious fundamentalists and fanatical anti-‐abortionists, this privacy right is in jeopardy. While both sides present strong arguments, these same positions have already been exhaustively debated and ruled upon by the Supreme Court. To turn back the clock on this issue would discriminate not only...
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...92 percent of all abortions take place in the first trimester. At this point in the pregnancy, the baby health depends on the mother to survive. With this said, the baby cannot exist outside of the womb, therefore it cannot be qualified as a separate entity (Lowen, 2016). If a baby does not qualify as a separate entity, then it does not have the right from the Constitution. Hence why abortion is not murder and the rights of women should not be restricted. The need for an abortion came before the 1880’s despite its legality. The legislation was used to control the women’s decision on childbearing roles and health care for women. People feared that abortion would take over male’s medical presence. During this time, the restriction was placed...
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...children have been killed, more than an entire population of a country (“10 reasons”).Many pro-lifers are going to the women rights march Saturday, January 22, a day after the inauguration on January 21. They will also be having their annual march on January 27 a week after the march on Washington DC. Abortion can harm the mother both mentally and physically after the abortion is over. It is also not right to kill the unborn child when it did not even have a chance at life. You should join the Pro-life movement because the more pro lifers we have the more unborn children are going to be saved. Life is more valuable than what most people think. A lot of people do not think of the baby when they decide to have an abortion(“Pro-Life Action”). Pro-life is a amazing movement to protect the right of the baby that abortion kills....
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...the child and the quality of life that you can provide them at this point in your life. What do you do? No matter your decision, the fact is that you should have a choice and not be controlled by the government on what you want to do with your body. This has been an issue in our society for many years and will continue to be around for many years to come. Our government should not be able to make the these kind of decisions for women in which they will have to live with for the rest of their lives. Women must have the right to choose whether or not to have an abortion because of the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy, the constitutionality of the issue, and the health concerns of the mother and baby. During a lifetime, people encounter an infinite number of circumstances, some of which they cannot control. Circumstances surrounding a woman’s pregnancy become the basis of her decision whether or not to have an abortion. Some women grow up in dysfunctional homes, where they are subject to sexual abuse by family members. Many times, this sexual...
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...Abstract Abortion is the intentional termination of pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. The purpose of this research is to inform the readers about the pros and cons of abortion. The three pros that were explored were that the baby should not come into this world unwanted, reproductive choice protects women from financial disadvantage and professionally-performed abortions reduces maternal injury and death caused by unsafe, illegal abortions. The three cons that were examined were that abortion is murder, life begins at conception and abortion can cause physical and emotional damage. This paper examines both sides in an objective manner and contains my own opinion (based on research) at the ending. [Title...
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...A House Divided: Abortion and Slavery in America It is routinely remarked by both intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals that “those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it.” It is definitely true that one of the history profession’s greatest tasks is to explain to the current generation how people in the past dealt with their problems, the good and the bad. It is to be hoped that by doing so we might (re)learn some lesson or at least will avoid the same pitfalls our ancestors discovered the hard way. One area in which a number of strong comparisons may be made might surprise us. A number of historical similarities present themselves between the arguments antebellum slaveholders used to support slavery and those used to support the modern abortion rights movement. At its most basic level, African chattel slavery involved one section of the population declaring other portions of that same population non-persons in order to protect the dominant side’s perceived rights and to reap economic gain, public benefit, and convenience. In doing so, the slaveholders claimed as a civil right the ability to perpetrate a moral wrong on someone who was not in a position to complain. This, of course, is nothing more or less than the essence of the “Pro Choice” movement. Arguments in favor of abortion and slavery are nearly identical, revolving around several similar premises: 4.Each person’s “right” to choose to do what he or she would with a life that had been...
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...Abortion Could it be Ethical Kelanah Hubbard SOC120 Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility Prof. Jennifer Murphy September 3, 2012 Could you imagine witnessing a child have surgery at 21 weeks gestation for spina bifida, outside of the womb and then be placed back inside? Would you agree with the mother aborting the child if there were no chance of adverse side effects from surgery and the child was going to have a normal birth in 3-4 months? “As the surgeon was closing the womb, the miracle happened. Baby Samuel pushed his hand out of the womb and grabbed the surgeon’s finger. Photographer Michael Clancy caught this astonishing act on film. And in that instant, Clancy went from being prochoice to being prolife. As he put it, “I was totally in shock for two hours after the surgery…. I know abortion is wrong now---it’s absolutely wrong.” (Alcorn, 2000, pg.33) Abortion and whether it is right or wrong ethically and what might be some of the opinions and ethical solutions, has always been a big debate and will be covered more. Utilitarianism argues that given a set of choices, the act we should choose is that which produces the best results for the greatest number affected by that choice. I believe that is the best solution for the crisis of abortion because it would make more people have to weigh their options and truly think about the choice they are about to make. People in society these days make decisions very selfishly and do not think about what is...
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...Abortion, the deliberate termination of a pregnancy, has been the subject of discussion and controversy for many decades. Utilitarianism is the chief teleological ethical theory today which considers the consequences of an action; such as abortion. This ethical approach to abortion is useful because it determines that “an action is right if it produces the greatest good for the greatest number”. It considers the hedonic calculus, designed by Bentham, which weighs up the pleasure and pain generated by the available moral actions; the theory mainly focuses on both pleasure and pain and the ability to maximize pleasure over pain. It also emphasises the ends of abortion over its means; so it judges the rightness of abortion by the end result, possible pleasure, it produces. The views of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are significant in illustrating the effects of a Utilitarian approach to abortion. Firstly, Bentham’s version of utilitarianism, known as Act utilitarianism, is the most relevant theory to the issue of abortion. His theory remains teleological, using the outcome of an action to determine whether it is good or bad. With abortion being a personal issue, it seems that act utilitarianism is the most adequate theory because it looks at the consequences of an abortion, taking each situation into separate account of all others. This would then enable women who have been raped, for example, to choose whether they go ahead with the birth because they may not be able to...
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...Abortion has been a controversial matter in our society and this is from many years ago. In the United States, it is legal to abort a baby up until the day of birth. An abortion is the ending of pregnancy before birth, which leads to killing the fetus. Many people believe that abortion is a crime. Although some might see abortion is a personal right while others regret that it is legal, other people believe that no one except God has the right to take someone’s life. Supporters of abortion, however, do not consider an unborn child a person who must be protected .With an issue like abortion, there is a difficulty in knowing if it is right or wrong. Abortion has been around for thousands of years. Abortion was...
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