Unintended pregnancy

of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. Abortion is a very controversial topic, determining whether abortion is morally right or not. Several ethical views exist on abortion ranging from good to bad. The main two are: pro-life and pro-choice. The pro-life position is that a new human life is created at the moment of fertilization. The pro-choice doesn't necessarily mean that you are pro-abortion, or that, if faced with an unintended pregnancy, you would…

(self-preservation), because she cannot afford to keep the baby and pay for her family. To maintain her families well being, Salina would need to put her family’s needs before the babies. In this, securing her family’s survival is the action and terminating the pregnancy is the side effect. As a result of the side effect, we must use the principle of double effect to find out whether her life is forfeit. The first criteria is if the action is right, the action is ensuring the survival of her…

termination of a pregnancy with destruction of the embryo or fetus. Pro- life believe that once a women has sexual relationships she should be more than ready to have a baby coming along. But what about she doesn 't want or isn 't ready to raise a child should she be force to endures what’s against her willing? What if she 's not finically ready how is she going to be able to raise a child without money, if she 's not financial ready during the pregnancy she 'll face an unattended pregnancy,…

than just trying to be careful, however, it is expensive and difficult for many women without health insurance to obtain. By making birth control free and easily accessible to young women, America is likely to see a drastic decrease in unplanned pregnancies and abortions, especially in high schools and low-income areas. On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act (ACA), part of this law being that Medicaid is required to cover one type of birth control per person,…

healthier lives, significant gender-based health disparities still remain in many countries. The most widely recognized reproductive health disparities are maternal and infant mortality. Maternal mortality refers to deaths due to complications from pregnancy or childbirth while the infant mortality refers to deaths of young children, typically those less than one year of age. The rate of infant mortality is often used as an indicator to measure the health and well-being of a nation, because…

Abortion - Murder or a start to a new life As of 2014, 652,639 abortions are performed each year (MMWR). ¨An abortion is a medical or surgical procedure that deliberately ends a pregnancy before an embryo or fetus is born.¨ (Abortion). So bascically an abortion is a medical procedure that purposely ends a pregnancy before the birth of the child. Those who support abortion, trust that fetuses do not truly become a person until they are physically born and that babies should not come into the…

Title X has assisted in the development of a national network of family planning clinics, enabled millions of women to plan their pregnancies and prevent unintended births, and has established standards used for high-quality delivery of care with low-cost family planning services nationwide (Gold, 2001). The Title X program has helped women avoid nearly 20 million pregnancies and prevent unplanned births since 1980. With this said, it is appropriate in recent years to make Title X’s history and…

United States (Grimes A, 2015). It is a fact that women are jeopardizing their own body and health while trying to end unwanted pregnancies by inducing or looking for dangerous procedures that harmfully affect their bodies (World Health Organization, 2014). Doctor Doh Bit defines abortion as the expulsion of the embryo which simply refers to the termination of the pregnancy; it can be spontaneous or induced. (Dr Doh Bit, 2007). According to Frohwirth & Dauphinee, just a small proportion of…

well as emotional disability. For instance, followed by Rebbecca j. Donatelle’s research “Each year, there are 20 million new cases of sexually transmitted infection-half of which are in ages 15 to 24. Half of all pregnancies in the United States-more than 3 million a year-are unintended, meaning they are mistimed or unwanted.” In addition to a person’s free-will and the ability to please their body in any way they desire, when stepping outside of gods boundaries it can result in uninspected…

the termination of a human pregnancy. Removing the fetus from the mother 's body is essentially removing what could be a new life. Which draws the question, is abortion morally acceptable? When processing this question several thoughts run through a person 's mind. Things such as is it the mother 's choice being able to terminate the pregnancy? Or if taking a life not born is murder? How I respond to these questions is it is morally acceptable to terminate the pregnancy because it is the choice…