Self-induced abortion

Abortion: Consequentialist and Deontological Perspectives Abortion can be termed as the dissolution of pregnancy by therapeutic or non-therapeutic measures before the foetus is necessarily developed to subsist. While discussing about abortion, the term is essentially taken synonymous with 'induced abortion', that is, for whatever the reason, the pregnancy is made to end purposefully in par with the decision taken by the woman. The occurrence of spontaneous abortion also termed as miscarriage,…

Gender Abortion is widely accepted as a “women’s issue” by abortion activists, with cis, heterosexual women leading the movement and serving as the voice for abortion rights. A search for trans men and abortion in academic search engines such as EBSCO brings up no articles on the issue. Indeed, the academic literature on trans men and access to abortion is severely lacking. The same is true for queer women. The idea that queer women and trans men cannot get pregnant uses stereotypes about their…

2000). Margaret was the first to popularize the term “birth control” with her great push to educate women about family planning. After returning to work, Sanger faced many difficult examples of how miscarriages, frequent childbirth as well as self-induced abortions were affecting the poverty stricken women in her community. She believed that women should have equal rights like men in society and should be able to choose when to give birth to…

Identity develops throughout our lifetime and continually changes as we go through different experiences. A lot of our identity in our youth is shaped by those around us; they define certain identities for us and teach us how to interpret our experiences. Sometimes, people who influence us go the extent of telling us what our identity should be, even if we don’t necessarily agree. As we age, we learn different perspectives from others and go through experiences that begin to shape our own ideas…

Facilitating Identity Achievement in Students Who am I? Where do I fit in? These are the questions that spur an individual to begin on their journey to develop their sense of self, a process known as identity formation. Although issues with one’s sense of identity could arise at any point in life, clinical psychologist Erik Erikson theorized that identity formation was most prominent in, and was the most critical developmental task of, adolescence. Ideally, in identity formation, an individual…

Orson Scott Card’s definition of an outsider conveys an idea that outsiders can see things more clearly and are important to everyone around them. He compliments their stronger sense of self compared to the rest of people in society. Card mentions how an outsider has a unique perspective than everyone else and that great heroic deeds are made by outsiders because of this unique perspective. While there is a notion that outsiders are not important, it is clear that outsiders are necessary in…

understand their identity, which is evident in Gogol’s experience. Through three phases of self-awareness in Gogol’s life, Lahiri depicts the development of Gogol’s understanding of his identity to represent the journey of self-perception children of immigrants undergo while reared in America. In doing so, she conveys the necessity of first generation…

through their jobs and experiments are the students that have more knowledge since independent learners programs provides students to control their own particular future objectives and time managements and convince them into the perfect path. First, all self taught programs have to get advocated in order to help students to organize their time and to be more open into the world which is more valuable than school examination programs. Students must be able to manage their time in order to…

exotic “other”. As the gay movement progressed into the 1970s, there was a backlash against homosexuality. Then came the rise of queer theory. Queer theory, “wishes to challenge the regime of sexuality itself – that is, the knowledges that construct the self as sexual and that assume heterosexuality and homosexuality as categories marking the truth of sexual slaves” (Seidman, 1994, p. 616). Essentially, it questions homosexuality and heterosexuality as a binary…

backgrounds struggle to discover the purest, most personal reason for their birth, their unconditional identity. Many have surpassed Maslow’s definition of basic needs and have focused their attention toward more psychological ideals, such as self-fulfillment and self-actualization, such as finding the purpose of their existence, perhaps even their true identity . However, the trouble roots from the sources used to come to such conclusions, often cases our peers, coworkers, authority figures,…