...discussing women choices about abortions brings many opinions, facts, and assumptions. The bible is believed to tell the truth about many issues in our lives. It has numerous scriptures toward issues like abortions saying that you shall not murder (Exodus 20:13), Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed for the image of God He made man(Genesis 9:6), Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to strike down an innocent person (Deuteronomy 27:25), and There are six things which the Lord hates, yes, seven which are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood. (Proverbs 6:16-19) Abortion is termination of pregnancy intentionally choosing or having a miscarriage. Those who believe that human life is becoming a human person at the time of conception are pro-life. People that are pro-life believe a human pre-embryo, embryo, and fetus have the essential human right of being allowed to live. They consider the lives of two human including the mother and her fetus. There are people who believe that human life begins after conception when the embryo’s heart starts beating, the fetus looks human or is born are pro-choice. Those with pro-life views believe that life begins at conception and think an abortion is the act of taking human life. They believe that no society allows human to intentionally harm another human life without being punished. Those who are pro-life believe that adoption is an alternative to an abortion because there are many...
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...15, 2013 Abortion Out of all the women who get pregnant throughout the world, half of them do not want their babies, and about a quarter of them choose to have an abortion. An abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy; it can either be with surgery or medicine, which is called an induced abortion. An abortion can also be done by accident, which is most often called a miscarriage. There are also many different methods of having an abortion. There has also been found to be an alternative therapy to abortion which is called cat’s claw. This alternative therapy does not use medicine nor surgery, it is just a plant they can be used as an herbal treatment and has recently found to work for abortions. People choose to get an induced abortion for many reasons; however, it is always a personal decision. Some women or teenagers get pregnant before they are ready to have a baby. They also may choose to get an abortion so they do not have to deal with the repercussions of having sex before marriage. Some women feel that they already have enough children, or that they cannot afford to have a new/another child. Woman who are victims of rape or incest most often choose to abort their baby. In some cases, either the baby’s or woman’s health is in danger; this can lead to a miscarriage also. Another major thing to look out while researching a topic like this one is the statistics. See the people that get abortions most often or find out what religion is most popular for abortions. Abortions...
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...2012 English Language and Composition The Issue of Abortion - A Modest Proposal The issue of abortion has become an increasingly controversial topic over the past few decades, especially in the United States. Before the 1970s, the word “fetology” had not even come into existence. As knowledge of this subject expanded, the development of the Ultrasound led to many discoveries about the human fetus. Unfortunately, another fruit of the Ultrasound’s discovery was that of abortion. Statistics show that “39% of deaths in the United States are due to abortion”, making it the number one reason of deaths in the country ("ABORTION: The Number One Cause Of American Deaths.") Additionally, the total average of worldwide cases of abortion adds up to “115,000”. Yet the rate of abortions in America is about “3,700 per day”, which puts the percentage of abortions in the U.S. at only 3% ("Abortion Statistics." Abortion Statistics) This is certainly not only a crime in America, but a worldwide epidemic. Countless precious and unborn lives have been lost in this relentless act of inhumanity, and it seems that their “silent scream” has yet to be heard ("Silent Scream.") Of course there have been organizations, websites, and campaigns to raise awareness about this robbery of innocent life. Pro-life institutions such as the American Life League advocate the protection of unborn lives through adoption and donations for the cause of anti-abortion. Various websites, abort73.com for example, promote...
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...Abortion: The Wrong Choice Tammy Edwards COM/172 September 15, 2010 Sunny Rowland Abortion: The Wrong Choice Nearly half of all pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion (Guttmacher Institute, Incidence of Abortion, May 2010). Abortion should be made illegal, because a fetus is a baby, no person has a right to take another's life, and an unborn baby cannot make the decision to live or die. A Fetus is a Baby While some view abortion as something people should be able to choose, others say abortion is a great evil, which is destroying the moral fabric of society Cline (2010). Many of the arguments turn on the status of the fetus: Is a fetus a person? A fetus is indeed a baby. From the moment of conception, a fetus is alive and growing inside the mother’s womb. For this reason, the fetus is a baby and considered a living, breathing being. If this were not so, then why is there a law in the state of California that if a person murders a pregnant female, that person is then charged with two counts of murder instead of just one Simon (2004)? This is true no matter how far along the mother is, one day or nine months. Therefore, this makes the fetus a real person. No Person Has a Right to Take a Life No person has the right to take another person’s life. Many skeptics say that the Bible does not say anything specifically about abortion. That there are no references to women seeking to end pregnancies, for...
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...ABORTION: There are many reasons or scenarios that a woman can put her self in to result in having an abortion. The first one that comes to mind is being too young. There is nothing worse than seeing or hearing about a girl who is 14-16 years old being pregnant. That is too young and the girls decision should be clear, have the procedure or end up with a child when in fact she is still a child. Another reason why women who are pregnant unexpectedly to get an abortion is that babies are expensive. If the bills aren’t being paid and there is only food on the table for the two of you now, how is it going to be when there is a baby who is always hungry. Even if the partners both work, for at least three months their income is going to be cut in half so the mother can give birth an be with the child, and not all people can survive with that kind of financial burden. Abortion should be made illegal, because a fetus is a baby, no person has a right to take another's life, and an unborn baby cannot make the decision to live or die. A Fetus is a Baby While some view abortion as something people should be able to choose, others say abortion is a great evil, which is destroying the moral fabric of society Cline (2010). Many of the arguments turn on the status of the fetus: Is a fetus a person? A fetus is indeed a baby. From the moment of conception, a fetus is alive and growing inside the mother’s womb. For this reason, the fetus is a baby and considered a living, breathing being...
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...Abortion: A Never Ending Controversy Approximately 205 million abortions occur each year worldwide. Over a third are unintended and about a fifth end in abortion. What is abortion? Abortion is the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus prior to viability. In other words, it is when a mother decides she doesn’t want to go through with her pregnancy. Abortion in today’s society has become very political. You are either pro-choice, pro-life, and there doesn’t seem to be a happy medium. As we look at abortion and research its history, should it remain legal in the United States, or should it be outlawed, we must consider both points of views. November 14, 1979, with the temperature outside at fifteen degrees, a two pound baby girl was found in a field wrapped up in a wet, dirty, old shirt. The umbilical cord was still attached, and the baby had been aborted twelve weeks prematurely. With little chance of survival, the baby was taken to a medical center. The little girl survived surgery and other efforts to save her. The baby was later adopted by Susan Morrison, one of the nurses who attended to her. The baby was named Christelle, and now she and her mother talk to thousands of people about abortion and the pro-life movement. There are 1,600,000 other abortion stories every year in the United States. “Abortion is the termination of pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by death of the embryo or fetus. Because...
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...tremendous impacts on the average consumer and leads to misconceptions within the population. Uncheck bioethics, “when applied in social contexts, can lead to the exploitation of the populations they were designed to defend” (Braswell, 2011, p.78). If such an issue persists, the possibility of alternative ideas of medical care will be significantly restricted. The intangible richness of dignity mirrors the infinite fullness of human beings, which, unlike physical or chemical concepts, can never be apprehended in a single, closed definition. As Christians, we need to know the underlying truths and balancing relevant scriptural principles with the implications of the technological intermediations, seeking wisdom and the guidance of the Holy Spirit as to how each is to enlighten the other (Jones, 2016). It is crucial that bioethicists do not solely rely on perfunctory scientific generalization,...
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...Student’s Name Institution’s Name Course Name Submission Date Abortion With the expansion of personal freedoms through the constitutional provisions, abortion has become a question of personal choice rather than a moral question. Yet there are those who still argue that individuals should not be given the prerogative to decide if they should carry their pregnancies to term, even if that pregnancy is as a result of rape. All these arguments are misguided. In this paper, I propose that the question of aborting or not should be left to the individual(s) who has the responsibility of bringing up the child if at all the pregnancy is taken to full term. Proponents of Pro-choice argue that women who have procured an abortion have a higher propensity of suffering from a broad spectrum of mental health complications such as agoraphobia, panic attack, panic disorder, major depression, bipolar disorder and substance-abuse anomalies (Coleman et al. 45). Notably, these side effects are bound to affect women who have procured abortion and this is largely due to the fact that with opposition still coming from some sections of our societies, these women are denied their rightful societal place due to discrimination. Most of them balk away from the society as they suspect, and accurately so, that they will be discriminated against by the very people who are supposed to provide moral and psychological help. In fact, the propensity of these women to retreat into these psychological...
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...Ethics: How to live a good life what is my worldview? My worldview has been shaped and expanded over the course of my lifetime by many different influences. My family, friends, co-workers, teachers, and even strangers have made impacts on my life that have in one way or another changed how I view society and the world around me. The three main components that help to form my worldview are Ethics, Human Nature, and God, because they moulded my thoughts, experiences, education and life decisions. I feel the strongest aspect of my worldview is my tremendous sense of ethics. They help to guide my actions and decisions every day. Ethics to me lay the foundations of a person’s character. I feel that a person with good character will by default have a strong set of moral values and their morals will help that person to make ethical choices in their lives. My moral values have been learned from many different influences throughout my lifetime. Numerous influences in my life have been strong Muslim examples that have given me a good foundation of Allah like values. These loving examples have inspired me to live a life of compassion, service, and teaching. I strive to live ethically because I want to please God and lead others by my example. In my experience the ethical choice may not always be the popular choice, but it is the one I can live with. Human Nature has always been interesting to me. It helps me to understand why I and others tend to do the things we do. My definition...
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...Topic: Abortion Claim: Abortion is not the best solution. Thesis Statement: Abortion is not the best solution because abortion is murder, it is an unsafe procedure which endangers the lives of women and it disallows for safer options such as adoption. Points It contributes to mass murder It endangers the lives of women It disallows for options such as adoption Introduction The dictionary defines Abortion as: The termination of pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or of a fetus that is incapable of survival. This simply means, inducing birth to kill the fetus, or baby before it is carried to full term. However, I would define abortion as morally and spiritually wrong. How would you feel if you were denied the right to live? Imagine being held against your will, gagged, and your hands bounded as you are placed in front of a firing squad about to be killed for absolutely no reason. Your right to live depends solely on someone else’s decision, hoping and praying that their decision is one that will be one of moral and ethical consciousness and would allow you your right. This is exactly what abortion entails, denying you your right to live. There are many women who might have gotten pregnant and thought that they were not ready to have a child. For most of them, they turn to abortion and see it as their only way out. I am certain many of these women have not fully understood the consequences behind abortion or does not realise that there are many other alternatives rather...
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...09/09/2013 WHO ARE THEY? WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THEIR ETHICAL POSITION? IN VITRO FERTILISATION ABORTION Four month after a single women got pregnant, having three IVF-treatments with donor sperm, she asks for an abortion. According to the women, she doesn’t need the foetus any longer. She made her point: she is fertile and is able to become pregnant. WHAT IS ETHICS? • Ethics may be defined as a set of moral principles that govern one’s course of action. • Ethics and law are a system of conflict resolution. • The law is the minimum behavior standard. Ethics Trends, Issues & WHAT IS ETHICS? • Ethics is philosophy of morality. • This is why it is sometimes referred to as ‘moral philosophy.’ • The term ‘ethics’ comes from the Greek term ethos meaning character, and we mean by the moral character of a person whether he or she is a good or bad person. MORALITY Everyone has some morality of his or her own ‐ what he or she thinks is right and wrong ‐ and it sometimes happens that people who others see as bad do not see themselves as bad. Each nation has a conception of morality too, a conception which reflects the collective thinking of the majority of the people of the nation. Much of a nation’s morality is stated in laws which prohibit immoral actions such as rape, robbery, or murder. It is questionable whether everything which is illegal is also immoral. GOOD EVIL We’re doing this for years It’s in my interest Hey! This is what...
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...Abortion Abortion has been a long standing social problem leading to political debate which has only resulted in a standstill with no progress towards a solution. For those who are for abortion say that the idea of individuality and human life is not quite the same. Idea of a human life has come from conception. Simultaneously on the other hand, fertilized eggs used for in vitro fertilization are also human lives but eggs unable to implant are routinely thrown away. Those who are against abortion say that abortion is badly affecting our society today. People in huge numbers feel it to be evil as it kills an unborn for no reason. Conversely, others believe that it is a woman’s legal right to choose abortion especially in case of incest, rape, or health issues threatening life of a mother. A couple decades ago, when abortion was illegal, thousands of women died because they did not want to bear an infant and attempted to terminate the child's life by themselves or with an unprofessional approach. After 1973's Supreme Court decision, which allowed women to have the choice to abortion, thousands of women were saved. Abortion can save thousands of lives of women and thus, should remain legal in the United States. Imagine you have a balance beam. On one side you have the physical life of an infant and on the other you have the mental and emotional life of a mother and her unwanted child. Which side can we, as civil humans, claim as more valuable? Up to this current day, abortion...
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...Whose right is it: Abortion Alexander Ontiverios ENG 135 Advanced Composition Abortion a Woman’s Right to Choose The topic of abortion is one of the most controversial of our times. When does life begin? When, if ever, is it right to terminate a pregnancy? These are some of the moral dilemmas that are faced when dealing with the issues of abortion. These questions have caused long and brutal arguments between pro-life and pro-choice supporters. It is my personal belief that an unborn fetus is not a living being and abortion or birth of that fetus should be left up to the pregnant woman. I also believe that the present abortion laws according to Roe v Wade should be upheld in the United States. Roe v. Wade was a landmark decision that legalized abortions in the U.S. It was the case of a poor, pregnant woman who filed a lawsuit against the state law of Texas, which stated that abortions were illegal. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which meant that the decision made affected the nation on a whole. On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Jane Roe and stated that the 14th amendment guarantees an adult woman the right to seek termination of her pregnancy until viability (capable of living outside the uterus). From this day on, abortions in the United States were legal. No matter what people may believe abortion is neither right nor wrong. It is a matter of personal opinion. However, the question still remains; should abortion be legal? Though...
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...Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy. It is a surgical procedure, available in almost every country in the world, in which a fetus or embryo is removed from the uterus of a pregnant woman. According to an article made by the Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper based on Utah, 22% of all pregnancies around the world end in abortion. This means that every year millions of lives are destroyed before they even have the chance to breathe. These poor babies, who could have accomplished great things in their life – babies who are already alive – are killed deliberately by doctors. And everyday, more and more abortions occur as they are starting to be legalized in more countries. With that stated, I don’t agree with abortion and I definitely think it should be illegal in every country. As a teenager I’ve been warned and talked extensively about abortion by my parents, teachers, and relatives in general. Abortion is a very popular topic among adolescents. The reason why this is a very prominent issue among the people of my generation is because every day more and more teenage girls are getting pregnant. They don’t take sex seriously and are very irresponsible during intercourse. An internet article states that in the U.S. alone there are 820,000 teen pregnancies annually. This is very shocking because it means that 34% of all teenage girls in the States will end up pregnant before turning 20. Other alarming figures include that 8 out of 10 of these pregnancies are unintended...
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...Abortion: The Wrong Choice Tammy Edwards COM/172 September 15, 2010 Sunny Rowland Abortion: The Wrong Choice Nearly half of all pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion (Guttmacher Institute, Incidence of Abortion, May 2010). Abortion should be made illegal, because a fetus is a baby, no person has a right to take another's life, and an unborn baby cannot make the decision to live or die. A Fetus is a Baby While some view abortion as something people should be able to choose, others say abortion is a great evil, which is destroying the moral fabric of society Cline (2010). Many of the arguments turn on the status of the fetus: Is a fetus a person? A fetus is indeed a baby. From the moment of conception, a fetus is alive and growing inside the mother’s womb. For this reason, the fetus is a baby and considered a living, breathing being. If this were not so, then why is there a law in the state of California that if a person murders a pregnant female, that person is then charged with two counts of murder instead of just one Simon (2004)? This is true no matter how far along the mother is, one day or nine months. Therefore, this makes the fetus a real person. No Person Has a Right to Take a Life No person has the right to take another person’s life. Many skeptics say that the Bible does not say anything specifically about abortion. That there are no references to women seeking to end pregnancies, for example, by...
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