Fertility tourism

Positional Paper on Ethical Issue In a proposed case, Jenny, 18 years-old, a young pregnant teenager sought a counsellor and expresses her decision in considering an abortion because her boyfriend left her and she no longer can bear the responsibility alone. Jenny says that she really needs to talk her options over with an adult who is “outside of her family” and doesn’t wish to involve her parents into this as she never wants to disappoint her parents any longer. Jenny also said that she has…

Some agencies they make a legal document that both the surrogate mother and the commissioning parents cannot part during the pregnancy. In surrogacy process the woman rents her body for other couple. This should be a new form of exploitation and trafficking in women. In surrogacy process, the child is treated as a mean for earning money or the object of a legal agreement. The main goal of surrogacy is to fulfil the wish the of couple, to enable foreign parents to satisfy their need for a child…

Introduction The NuvaRing is a contraceptive, and it prevents you from getting pregnant. Like all contraceptives, is the NuvaRing not one hundred percent reliable, there is a probability of 0.4% pregnancy. This means that if a thousand women a year use the NuvaRing, four women would become pregnant. The NuvaRing does not protect against STDs. It is intended that you insert the ring between the first and the fifth day of your period. The first week is the ring not quite reliable, so using a…

Have you ever thought about abortion? Most people try not to think about it and wish to avoid the overwhelming dreadful reality. For the majority of women, the most terrifying sight is the positive line on a pregnancy test. Surveys given worldwide by the Guttmacher Institution of Unplanned Pregnancy, state that four in ten women become pregnant before the age of twenty. Thirty-one percent of these women chose to terminate the pregnancy. How do you think you would feel if someone took away your…

For a logical response to Jerome’s androcentric criticism of women practicing free will and control over their own bodies, one could look to Beverly Harrison, a professor of Christian Ethics. Harrison defends women’s rights to their own bodies, stating that abortion could be considered not only “morally justifiable,” but “a moral good, because it is not rational to treat a newly fertilized ovum as though it had the same value as an existent, pregnant, female person.“ She goes on to say,…

“Intersex is a group of conditions where there is a discrepancy between the external genitals and the internal genitals (the testes and ovaries)” (Kaneshiro, 2) Intersexuallity is a essence of being born with a mixture of both male and female biological characteristics, which are caused by an error in the sex chromosomes. Since both sides are present, it is very difficult for physicians to deal with issues involving the assignment of a specific sex or any consultations revolving around the issue…

History of abortion In the story,”The abortion debate” by Courtney Farrell talks about both sides of the abortion debate. In the book the author gives many reason why you should have an abortion. One of the many reasons that girls have an abortion is because of rape. Many girls/women get raped and pregnant everyday. According to a young girl in the book, “everyday would be a reminder of the horrible thing that happened to me.”. Some people also have abortions because they aren’t able to take…

Throughout the world there are many different types of societies and cultures that have completely different ways of life. Throughout these cultures they have their own beliefs, values and morals. Many of the practices that certain cultures participate in are very controversial around the world. People are torn between seeing these topics in cultural relativist ways VS. ethnocentric ways and they question whether to see it as just a part of the cultural or a human rights violation. Each day…

Murder or a women’s right? This is what the abortion controversy comes down to. Abortion has quickly become a very current controversial issue. Most people are either completely for it or absolutely against it. Lately, the topic of abortion has grown in popularity with just about everyone. Women should have the right to an abortion because children who were unintended suffer more consequences, in some cases women have been raped, and keeping the pregnancy can negatively affect the mother’s…

“If a mother can kill her own child-what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me-there is nothing between” -Mother Teresa. Abortions, has been around for many years and in each year there are 1.1 million U.S. abortions made. Approximately 51% of abortions are performed on women less than 25 years of age. Abortions should be illegal because it makes irresponsible, it can cause health problems, for the mother or family, and it also kills innocent children. Women have used abortion, known…