Policy debate

The interpretation of the feeding tube being the equivalent of the breathing machine or vice versa is up for debate. These are both machines that can prolong life in some fashion. It does not say she is unable to talk or unable to eat, but rather that she refuses to do both actions. I would advise that her husband and her daughter speak to her to see if she will respond to them. It is quite possible that Ann could die at her own hands because of her refusal. This is somewhat a reminder of the…

On completing the story, Damanaka asked, “O Karataka, tell me, What is the moral of this story ?” Karataka replied, “I know Homo sapiens. I have understood the moral of the story very well, and it is this – If, like Homo sapiens, anyone endangers the life of one’s own mother, then , that will be one’s own end too.” “Absolutely right”, said Damanaka, “Times have changed, the Era has changed, but, the moral of the story has remained unchanged; Because, the behavior of Homo Sapiens too has…

There's been a controversy for decades now on whether or not abortion should remain legal, in other words it's pro choice vs pro life.They’ve disputed the future of the women and the child through debates with few if any compromises.Abortion being legal reduces death and maternal injuries caused by illegal abortions.Abortion needs to continue being legal not only because some mothers or parents are financially incapable of taking care of a child but because they’ll be in a household where they’d…

For Judith Jarvis Thomson abortion is something that should be a negative right, provided that it has certain guidelines. One in which abortions are neither a right that should be given nor taken away. Thomson begins by arguing that there is no right time to mark the point in which a person should begin to be considered a person. She then gives an example of an oak tree and how it is not called an oak tree at the beginning, but goes through stages to become an oak tree. Nevertheless, Thomson…

is that women should have the right to control their body, Marquis argues that the right of the unborn fetus outweighs the right for a woman to control her body. Before supporting his thesis Marquis lays out one of the main problems in the abortion debate. People in favor of abortion often have a very narrow view on what constitutes a person and this is problematic because it leaves out infants, severely retarded and mentally ill individuals. Cleary killing one of these individuals would be…

The writer Francesca Minerva, in her article named “Why shouldn’t the baby live?” published in 2011, in the Journal of Medical Ethics, in which she discussed the claim of euthanasia in infants , and whether it should be legally and ethically permissible or not, she took the side of supporting the previous claim, and she called for allowing for the euthanasia in infants. The writer used in her article the Rogerian method to support her claim, as she didn’t propose her point of view or clarified…

The frequency of abortions carried out in the recent past and currently has been rampant. Abortion is the removal of the foetus before it is viable. It is normally done before the end of the first trimester of the pregnancy. It is either spontaneous or induced where spontaneous is whereby the foetus comes out due to body disturbances and it is involuntary while induced is whereby the woman herself wants he foetus expelled from her womb. in this case we are referring to the induced type (Malcolm…

2. In the Maternal Rights Approach, the mother is the only patient and the fetus is not considered a patient, separate from the mother, until after delivery. Therefore, from the medical indications standpoint, the clinical circumstances (risks/benefits) of the mother take precedence over the fetus. From the topic of patient preferences, the emphasis is on “the primacy of the pregnant woman’s right to control what happens to her body.” (OBGYN Risk Research Group, 2009). Any interest in fetal…

The Permissibility of Abortion: Noonan V. Thompson The topic of abortion has been of much dispute throughout time. Some seeing abortion as the mother’s right to choice, others as murder. Most pro-life supporters argue that fetuses have the right to life and to aborting it is murder. Judith Thompson concedes that fetuses may have the right to life but that only gives the fetus a right to not be unjustly killed. Thus, if abortion is justifiable, then abortion is morally permissible. John Noonan,…

In the book Abortion & the Politics of Motherhood, Kristin Luker investigates the reasons where the abortion debate originates and why it has caused so much conflict between pro-life activists and pro-choice activists. After holding interviews of supporters in both groups, Luker’s experiment has shown that both groups possess contrasting motives based on their different and world views and beliefs. The pro-life and pro-choice activists have opposing views on abortion, especially concerning the…