Abortion

Abortion and the Concept of a Person Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade case in 1973 legalized abortion, it has continued to be one of the most highly debated issues in the country. According to Mario Derksen, “Abortion is the unnatural termination of a pregnancy by killing (at least) one human fetus” (Derksen). There are two main sides to the abortion argument. Conservatives believe the life begins at conception; thus abortion is murder. On the other hand, liberals believe that…

The legality of elective abortion, or a woman's right to choose, has been an issue for almost two centuries, since at least 1821 when Connecticut passed the first statute criminalizing abortion (Cole & Frankowski, 1987). The biggest argument people against abortion use is freedom of religion and the sanctity of life, but another large factor is that of the mental health of those women who do choose to abort their fetuses. Research by Coleman (2011) suggested that abortion is linked to a moderate…

Oanh Van PHL 3670 Final essay [girl’sname] is a Muslim woman, and she wants to have an abortion. She considers her religion to be the defining aspect of life; she is an active member of the community, particularly in the area of women’s role in family and child nurturing. She plans on having as many children as God’s Will. And there she is, pregnant with her first precious baby after years married the love of her life. God knows how much pressure she had been enduring through both families’…

One point zero six million people, 1.06 million people had an abortion performed on them in 2011. One point zero six million lives who didn’t have to grow up in a broken family. One point zero six million lives who didn’t have to grow up in financial destitution. One point zero six million lives who didn’t have to go through emotional and physical abuse. One point zero six million lives who didn’t have to live with parents who weren’t responsible for undertaking the job of raising a child…

Abortion has always been a controversial topic with frequent heated debates about its use. Chapter 5 covers the arguments being made by opposing sides on the ethicality of abortion. These views are attributed to people’s beliefs about the personhood of a fetus and the variance in beliefs is the reason there has yet to be a consensus on abortion’s ethicality. Some people take a fetus’s ability to develop into a human being as evidence of its personhood, while others mandate that to…

Many people think abortion is wrong but there are some exception. The baby can be a produced of a rape, that person can’t afford a baby, they can also want to avoid single parenthood, and for educational purpose. Being rape can mentally destroy you and having your rapist child can just kill you. They would just be a reminder of what happen to you that day. That child life can also be in danger because the mother is taking out their anger out on that child for what his/her father did to her.…

of abortions became more than just a number on a screen. Now, it was: who would I tell? How much trust would I lose? Would the ones that love me ever forgive me? Plus an abundance of other uncomfortable questions regarding how it would effect my partner. But the question the scared me the most was if I even wanted an abortion at all. There was no right decision, and a field of black and white suddenly became an even gray. This experience did not change my stand on a woman’s right to abortion,…

Genetics Abortion As I close my eyes, I try to recall the very first moment I saw light. The farthest I can dive into my memories was probably about 15 years ago when I was around four years old, trying to climb the tree in my backyard. Because of the fact that I am limited by human capabilities, I can only remember back to a certain extent. It’s almost impossible for me to remember the very first moment I was born or the time inside my mother’s womb. Even if you ask a six year old child, he or…

for a woman to choose to have an abortion in today’s world. Reason’s may include a woman being raped, a teen pregnancy, pregnancy by incest, unplanned or unexpected pregnancy, pregnancy at a financially unaffordable time or high risk pregnancy. Historically, in China children may have been aborted the second time around as a means of population control, “The abortion gangs often capture women who are pregnant for a second time and arrange for an immediate abortion” (Richards, 1996). Science…

to direct their own health care. “It would undermine the principles underlying the right to the reproductive choice” (American Civil Liberties Union, 2000). Even though it is clearly stated in the law that it will have no correlation in regard to abortion or any choice that a woman may precede in fulfilling, there is still a uneasy fear as to how…