...Ethical Employment Issue Heather Pagington Webster University Corporate Responsibility and Society MGNT 5990 Greg Hoffmann January 15, 2014 Ethical Employment Issue Working for an ethical company or for a company that makes ethical decisions is important. One organization that I could not work for is Planned Parenthood. My stance on abortion is completely Pro-Life. My beliefs come from my faith and love for children. The below includes my reasons for my objections to Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is the number one provider of abortions in the nation. Interestingly enough they promote themselves as, "America's most trusted provider of reproductive healthcare." Planned Parenthood does not like to talk about its abortion business, but it runs the nation's largest abortion chain and commits over 300,000 abortions a year (Tolck, 2013). 1. Abortion is murder. Planned Parenthood's schedule each day is a kill list (Hasson, 2013). After watching the movie The Silent Scream in high school, no one will be able to convince me that a zygote, embryo or fetus is not a human being. The baby tried to avoid the instrument that was inserted into the woman to extract him or her. a) Planned Parenthood kills twice as many innocent human beings every week as died in the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001. b) Planned Parenthood also has a goal of reducing the population. 2. Debate on when birth begins is ongoing. a) Some say life begins at conception b) Some say life...
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...health care organization. Include the following: • What are the organization’s goals? How are they tied to its ethical principles? Describe the role and importance of the corporation’s ethical values. • What is the relationship between the organization’s culture and ethical decision-making? • Is it important that the organization’s ethical values support your ethical values? Explain. • Is there a social responsibility for the organization in the community? Explain and provide examples. · Include at least three sources in your paper. · Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. CODE OF ETHICS PAPER A code of ethics is an integral part to all organizations and the degree that values are aligned with as well as the strategic planning methods for the thriving of Planned Parenthood of America where workflows equal the most efficient and clinically effective methods and tools. Political viewpoints and laws enforce personal employee's opinions and public pressure could interfere with operations at any point in time. Managerial preparedness through conceptualization of external ethical issues as well as internal issues that may arise from staff is necessary. Communication of protocols for situations and procedures should be performed to allow for front-line staff, patients, and the public to have a clear dynamic view of the ethical dilemmas that encroach upon the delivery of health care for this sector of the market. In America there are...
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...Challenges of being an Planned Parenthood Advocate and Neutral Facilitator Lorraine Sardin BSHS/441 July 28, 2912 Stephanie Taylor Challenges of being an Advocate and Neutral Facilitator In this paper I will discuss in detail the legal challenges of dual relationships of ethical and moral challenges of advocating and mediating on a personal perspective of integration. Also to identify in this paper, individual approach to advocating and mediating within the Planned Parenthood Center’s site, and my personal philosophy. My personal perspective as a Clinician that offers mediator services like the services that is offered by the Planned Parenthood Agency. At this agency it is important for a mediator to have confidence in the services provided, and has no personal objections to issues like abortion. In order to be a nonbiased person mediating for two parties that may be involved with abortion or an individual, it would be important that the clinician has no conflicts of interest with the persons that decide to have the Abortion. An Abortion is a critical decision for a mother to make. In our country, there are that believe that Abortion is “MURDER” no matter what the situation. Mediation for Abortion, the mediator has to accept the mother’s decision no matter what their own personal beliefs are. Because with mediation it does not involve changing the client’s minds or making decisions for them; what it involves is facilitating communication...
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...Planned Parenthood: The Next Great Debate The ethical, legal, and religious fight of abortion has been a long and strenuous fight, with smaller arguments, such as the now newly publicized controversy of Planned Parenthood and it’s functions, spawning from the main issue. The opinions on abortion have been divided into two main arguments; pro-life and pro-choice. While there is great variation between the two opposing sides, there is little variation in the views belonging to the same side. Many ideas that propose a different solution to the issue of abortion and it’s offsets are often diminished to ‘unrealistic’ and ‘too hopeful’ for the main issue at hand. However, several solutions that have been proposed are well thought out and ultimately useful for the debate over abortion and Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is a non-profit organization which receives almost 530 million dollars from the government each year. They receive almost $392 million from private organizations, $306 million from non-governmental services, and $78 million from other revenues. The organization, which focuses on the health and wellbeing of women and children, in notorious for it’s supposed high abortion rates, despite the fact that abortion makes up only 2% of services the non-profit organization offers. Most of Planned Parenthood’s revenue consists of helping women’s contraception and the treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections. 15% of what they do is also cancer screening and prevention...
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...Abortion Debates HCM-331 Mount Olive College May 15, 2010 Abortion Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in the United States today that has the ability to provoke debate in the legal, political, medical, ethical, and religious arenas. The passion and emotion behind the debate has polarized the Nation and propelled groups on either side of the issue to bring their stance into the spotlight. Some have worked outside the legal system with a sense of vigilante justice, and others have worked within the legal system to bring about change. As health care administrators, we must be knowledgeable of the issues that are fueling the debate and the current laws regarding those issues. Before discussing the laws regarding abortion, definitions vital to the understanding of the laws are necessary. These include fetus, gestation, trimester, quickening, and viability. Medically, a fetus is the unborn entity after the eighth week of development when brain activity becomes detectable, but legally, this term is used in the discussion of abortion as the unborn entity throughout the entire gestation. Gestation being the period of time the fetus develops in the mother’s uterus, which is usually 40 weeks. The forty weeks are sub-divided into trimesters. The first trimester ends after the 12th week, the second ends around the 26th week, and the third trimester ends with birth. Quickening takes place sometime between the thirteenth and twentieth weeks and does the...
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...Pro-Abortion There are many women in the world that decide to have abortions for their own personal reasons or reasons that may affect the unborn child’s life. We live in a society of unwanted pregnancies and where people are either Pro-life (against abortion) or Pro-choice (for abortion). I consider myself Pro-choice and believe that abortion should not be controlled by the government. Pro-choice groups believe that woman should be free to follow their own ethical beliefs concerning the termination or the continuation of a pregnancy (Wikipedia). Many recognize that their different beliefs about abortion access and that the state should not attempt to enforce a common belief system on all pregnant women who decide to terminate their pregnancies. The legalization of Abortion started in 1973 with the Roe vs. Wade case. This made abortion legal in all 50 states. Abortion is safe because we know the risks involved in an abortion are very low relative to other surgical procedures, and the risk of death from an abortion is one-tenth that of childbirth (Abortion Access). There are many different reasons that people fight for and against Abortions. You have those whom think that terminating a pregnancy is murder and the parent and doctor are committing the crimes. The situations where woman should have the right to abortion are where they have been raped, their health or life is at risk, contraception was used but...
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...In the world today that abortion takes place every second of every day. Abortion is a big topic in this generation because of have uncontrolled hormones the miss connection of love and responsibility and what it brings to the table. They lack to fully understand the presents and laws to childhood care because yet they are still children themselves. When we misuse this we tend to fall into wrong decision making of abortion. Abortion ties into what some say the killing of a human life. We fail to realize the fact of when does life begin. Many may claim that life begins as we form in our mother’s uterus. (According to prolife physicians.com) human life begins as we are able to adapt, reproduce, organized, have energy etc. Does this really define that we are able to still take a life that has never displayed these actions but will. Many people will agree that during every abortion and innocent human being is killed. They also stop to think that when does life begin or is abortion just abortion. According to pro-choice network human life begins as a baby / fetus begins to breathe on its own without the mothers support (Pro-choice network). In the world today laws have been developed in many states that there is a set time for a women to abort her child or fetus. Women can only have abortion between eight to twelve weeks of pregnancy. This comeback to the question when are we considered human beings viewpoints regarding this issue vary wildly, but after clarification of why one should...
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...frustrations to the court concerning the ambiguity of the wording in the abortion law, saying that he was incapable of distinguishing which of his patients were eligible for the laws exception.54 He appealed for the court to legalize abortion and suggested that should they fail to do so, they change the wording of the law.55 Hallford’s desire was to ensure the safety and care of his patients, while practicing under clear and concise laws. The court dismissed his testimony due to his impending cases.56 In the process of making the decision for abortion, the court discussed the Hippocratic Oath.57 In this oath, the doctor swears that they will not aid a woman in having an abortion or gives her the means to do so...
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...Abortion is defined as: "the termination of pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or of a fetus that is incapable of survival." However, if only the debate over the abortion issue was as simple as the definition provided above. Much like every aspect of human life, a statement is neither right nor wrong, but simply left open for interpretation. There is no black and white in life, only gray areas. Some issues tend to provide us more gray areas than others. Abortion is a prime example of that. Those who refute abortion claim that it is the murder of a helpless baby who has not yet had the chance to live and function as a human being. However, the debate opposite it is just as fervent: it is a woman's right to choose what happens to her body, and if she decides that she is not capable of bringing a child into this world, than she shouldn't be forced to out of nature. Where do we draw the line between humane and inhumane, necessitated death and murder? When does a woman's right over her internal reproductive organs become that of the government's? Is abortion wrong or is it right? Are rape, incest, and potential fatality to the mother exceptions when abortion is "okay"? Are there truly any at all? So many questions are raised by such a fervent debate, that we must look at both sides of the issue to better understand it in a general, but yet thorough approach. As expected, there are...
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... PRO-CHOICE Abortion is the termination or premature ending of pregnancy by removal or expulsion of a fetus or embryo from the uterus. An abortion can happen spontaneously because of complications for the period of a pregnancy, or the abortion can be induced. A therapeutic abortion is an induced abortion, which is carried out to save or preserve the health of the mother. An elective abortion is an abortion carried out for any other reasons. Therefore, abortion refers to the induced abortion of pregnancy. Abortion is generally used to mean an induced termination of pregnancy whereas a miscarriage is generally used to mean a spontaneous termination of pregnancy. In abortion, the termination is intentional while in miscarriage, the termination is not intentional (Naden, 2007). Pro-choice abortion is the conviction that all women have the absolute right to choose to whether to abort a baby from their bodies. The paramount view of the pro-choice is that a baby ultimately does not have any human rights within its mother’s womb. A Pro-choice abortion allows women to have a choice on how to abort the unwanted child. Characteristically, the method of abortion is ultimately determined by the fetus age. During the first trimester of the fetus growth, a woman can choose to have a Suction Abortion or to use pills popularly known as the morning after pill or. On the start of the fourth month, the abortion is more often than not performed by Dilation...
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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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...known as “the modern movement of birth control” actually began in Great Britain. The writer Thomas Robert Malthus stirred up the interest regarding the time’s current over-population problem. As a result of his publications, by 1870 a wide range of birth control devices were made available in English and American pharmacies. These devices included; rubber condoms, diaphragms, vaginal sponges, and medicated tampons. Due to the easy access to these devices to the public, both countries created a bill to prohibit the distribution of contraceptives across state lines and through the mail. Before the use of birth control in America, many women had opted for abortions because they either had too many children to take care of or they were simply not ready to parents. In the early 19th century, abortions could be dangerous. Too many abortions often lead the woman’s death because the technology was not yet available to try and properly prevent internal hemorrhaging. In 1878, Aletta Jacobs established the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The first birth control clinic, in the United States, was opened in 1916 by Margaret Sanger and was located in Brooklyn, New York. The clinic opened by Margaret was later closed by the police and she was remanded to jail for thirty days because she was...
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...discuss in your proposal how those sources support or refute your opinions. The following are useful resources that are available on the Multimedia page of the University Library: * Issues & Controversies * Issues & Controversies in American History * Global Issues in Context What is the first topic that comes to mind when you think of world-wide controversial issues? For me, the biggest and most wide-spread issue is that of abortion. What is right and what is wrong? Are there exceptions to when abortion is okay? Do sexual offenses against a victim make abortion a “fair” decision? What about genetic testing that shows serious medical problems for a fetus? “Abortion is the most often topic written about in School. Abortion is the most often topic debated in School. Abortion is the final outcome of one out of every three pregnancies in the U.S. Abortion divides our country, our religions, our family, our society and our politics.” – This quote comes from the home page of abortioninfo.org and sums up most of the reason why I have chosen this topic to write about. This topic can keep a feminist talking and is the baseline for many political campaigns which are dependent on whether or not the elected official is pro-abortion or not. Feminism ties best into the subject of abortions because women have rights to their own bodies and the freedom to reproduce and keep the child or to abort the fetus.” Feminist movements have campaigned and continue to campaign for...
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...Abortion and Free Markets A social problem or issue is something that people believe should be corrected into a legal action; one social problem that has been on the government’s agenda for several years, abortion. It involves the fundamental rights for all women and teens when deciding whether or not to abort a child. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2011 reported that abortions accounted for 9.3 percent (CDC, 2011). This percentage of takes into account rape, incest, abusive relationships, and the health or life of the mother and baby. The reasons for abortions are what the government considers the most important for an abortion to be considered legal. Although limited reasons, other reasons were found for wanting an abortion such as not wanting a child or the inability to afford a child could possibly be a legitimate reasons. In fact, during that time the case of Roe v. Wade was being heard in court, nearly 55 million abortions were performed in the United States legally – which averages of about 1.5 million per year (Pazol, Creanga, Burley, & Jamieson, 2014). Thanks to Roe v. Wade abortion became partly legal because it was considered unconstitutional to women and violated their human rights (ProCon, 2015). It is clear that the government believes in their interests of protecting life versus the personal rights of women around the world. Women of all ages have the right to make critical decisions about their own bodies and when the government steps...
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...PHC6420 Spring 2013 Dated: Summary of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992). In 1973 Roe v. Wade created a political and legal uproar on issue of abortion. Under due process clause of the 14th Amendment, which declares that “no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law”. This due process of law has not been completely understood though court has spent years of defining redefining each component of due process clause. Women’s decision to have abortion before viability of fetus and to obtain it without interference from State .Interest of State to protect prenatal life and create hurdles for Women’s right to choose the procedure though few exceptions were considered where life of women and fetus after viability was in danger. This was challenged that states involvement in whole pregnancy process was not right and therefore court ordered involvement of state limited to trimester of pregnancy. This was argued too and later courts rejected trimester involvement and supported the fact that women has right to terminate abortion till fetus is viable The exact definition of viability became big controversy and this prompted a debate in entire nation and is still going on even today whether abortion should be legalized, who should decide the legality of the abortions, how much should be the state involved, what are the moral and ethical views regarding this issue. This controversy divided nation into pro-choice...
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