A teen is pregnant. She is afraid and hasn’t told her boyfriend yet. When she finally tells her boyfriend, he tells her to get an abortion. This makes her extremely upset and storms out. Her boyfriend chases her, and apologizes. They have the baby. Even though they keep the baby, the boy still thought it was best for them to have an abortion. This bothered the girl for a while. To what extent can a man have on pro-life or pro-choice? Because there’s a man and a woman who created a child, shouldn’t there be a 50/50 say so in the decision to keep or not keep the baby. A man making the final decision makes it harder for the mother, adding more pressure and stress. “Every year, almost half of all pregnancies among American women are unintended.
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In the Roman and Green classical texts, there were several mentioning of abortions. Aristotle made a theory of abortions, which stated “a soul at 40 days and a female fetus at 90 days, so if the abortion was performed prior to these deadlines it was not killing something human (History)”. With that being said, he believed abortions were not a problem. In the Hippocratic Oath, vaginal suppositories for abortions were forbidden. This avoided dangerous practices. Hippocrates believed abortions were safe and suggested for a woman to jump up and down to bring about a miscarriage. Romans believed abortions were unsafe and ceaseless. Writers thought if a woman died during an abortion she would, “…. undergo the extreme penalty (History).” Botanical preparations were reported to be abortifacient, and were typical in folk medicine and classical literature. Some of the herbs they used were poisonous and terminated the pregnancy. De Viribus Herbarum is an 11th century herbal written document, states all the plants used that caused abortions. Some that were used was “Italian catnip, savory, sage, soapwort, cyperus, white and black hellebore, and pennyroyal …show more content…
Some states require a second physician to be present in abortions after a certain limit (AbortionLaw).” Parental Involvement in which parental consent and notification laws that relate to women under the age of 18. Most states require at least one parent's involvement in a minor's decision to have an abortion. Other states require both parents to consent to an abortion procedure, while a dozen states require only one or both parents be notified. Finally, a small number of states require both parental consent and notification (AbortionLaw).” Ultrasounds, new laws, a growing number of states require women to view or hear the fetus through an ultrasound before undergoing an abortion (AbortionLaw).” “As it stands today, American women have the legal right to obtain an abortion in all 50 states, through all nine months of pregnancy, for virtually any reason at all. This has been true since the Supreme Court declared that autonomous abortion rights are built into the Constitution, and that legal barriers to abortion are unconstitutional. This ruling was arrived at on the premise that the 9th and 14th Amendments, according to legal precedent established during the 1960's, guarantees a woman's "right to privacy"—a right that extends even to abortion (USAborLaw).” Time for an Abortion is a law in North Carolina that places a time limit on when a soon to be mother can have an abortion. The time limit for North Carolina is twenty
In the Roman and Green classical texts, there were several mentioning of abortions. Aristotle made a theory of abortions, which stated “a soul at 40 days and a female fetus at 90 days, so if the abortion was performed prior to these deadlines it was not killing something human (History)”. With that being said, he believed abortions were not a problem. In the Hippocratic Oath, vaginal suppositories for abortions were forbidden. This avoided dangerous practices. Hippocrates believed abortions were safe and suggested for a woman to jump up and down to bring about a miscarriage. Romans believed abortions were unsafe and ceaseless. Writers thought if a woman died during an abortion she would, “…. undergo the extreme penalty (History).” Botanical preparations were reported to be abortifacient, and were typical in folk medicine and classical literature. Some of the herbs they used were poisonous and terminated the pregnancy. De Viribus Herbarum is an 11th century herbal written document, states all the plants used that caused abortions. Some that were used was “Italian catnip, savory, sage, soapwort, cyperus, white and black hellebore, and pennyroyal …show more content…
Some states require a second physician to be present in abortions after a certain limit (AbortionLaw).” Parental Involvement in which parental consent and notification laws that relate to women under the age of 18. Most states require at least one parent's involvement in a minor's decision to have an abortion. Other states require both parents to consent to an abortion procedure, while a dozen states require only one or both parents be notified. Finally, a small number of states require both parental consent and notification (AbortionLaw).” Ultrasounds, new laws, a growing number of states require women to view or hear the fetus through an ultrasound before undergoing an abortion (AbortionLaw).” “As it stands today, American women have the legal right to obtain an abortion in all 50 states, through all nine months of pregnancy, for virtually any reason at all. This has been true since the Supreme Court declared that autonomous abortion rights are built into the Constitution, and that legal barriers to abortion are unconstitutional. This ruling was arrived at on the premise that the 9th and 14th Amendments, according to legal precedent established during the 1960's, guarantees a woman's "right to privacy"—a right that extends even to abortion (USAborLaw).” Time for an Abortion is a law in North Carolina that places a time limit on when a soon to be mother can have an abortion. The time limit for North Carolina is twenty