...By definition, "abortion" refers to any premature expulsion of a human fetus, whether naturally spontaneous, as in a miscarriage, or artificially induced, as in a surgical or chemical abortion. Abortion has been a controversial issue dating back long before the United States Supreme Court’s 7-1 decision on the case of Roe versus Wade. As a result of the case, it was decided that the procedure was a fundamental right. Since then abortion has continued to be a subject that draws fluctuating heated emotions from society. The social predictors of abortion attitudes are greatly influenced by varying religious beliefs, demographics, and political views. Generally, the debate over abortion consists of two stances, pro-choice or pro-life. Those who distinguish themselves as a proponent for the pro-choice attitude towards abortion believe that the procedure is a right that should not be limited by the government or a religious entity. They believe that if women do not have legal access to abortions, these women will resort to unsafe options to eliminate their unwanted pregnancy. Individuals who distinguish themselves as a proponent for the pro-life attitude towards abortion believe that life occurs at the time of conception. Therefore abortion is the immoral killing of an innocent human being. As previously mentioned, this debate stems back to the infamous case of Roe versus Wade. This case originated in Dallas, Texas in 1969 when “Roe”, the legal pseudonym for Norma Leah McCorvey...
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... women to have abortions there has been a great debate on the topic of abortion from the problems of having an abortion to the likely benefits of abortion. Legal induced abortion was defined as a procedure, performed by a licensed physician or someone acting under the supervision of a licensed physician, which was intended to terminate a suspected or known intrauterine pregnancy and to produce a nonviable fetus at any gestational age. Over the past years there seems to have been substantial changes in the demographic composition of women who have abortions. Theorists have often tried to determine the number of factors that may have influenced the change demographics, including shifting perspectives on teen pregnancy, religious shifts and changes in the community views regarding abortions. This paper will outline the reasons why abortion should remain legal. (Dr.Howard, 207) . Laws against abortion kill women, to prohibit abortions does not stop them. When women feel it is absolutely necessary, they will choose to have abortions, even in secret, without medical care, in dangerous circumstances. In the two decades before abortion was legal in the U.S., it's been estimated that nearly a million women per year sought out illegal abortions. Thousands died. Tens of thousands were mutilated. All were forced to behave as if they were criminals. Anti-abortion laws discriminate against low-income women, who are driven to dangerous self-induced or back-alley abortions. That is all they...
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...PARENTAL CONSENT LAWS AND ABORTION RATES AMONG MINORS PARENTAL CONSENT LAWS AND ABORTION RATES AMONG MINORS 13 Do Parental Consent Laws Reduce Abortion Rates among Minors? Dedra Burnett Louisiana Tech University HIM-541 Dr. Kennedy ? Background One of the biggest controversies in the country is parental consent regarding an abortion with a minor. Parental involvement and government laws are extremely important for the safety, welfare, and health of minors. Many minor girls become pregnant at an early age and think about having an abortion; the minor is making the choice on whether or not to go through with a pregnancy. Many states have parental consent or parental notification requirements before a minor can receive an abortion....
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...Russia is one of the largest countries in the world. But in recent years, the population of Russia increases very slow and is much lower than other countries all around the world. This phenomenon will lead to many negative effects on the economic and social development. If Russia doesn't solve its problems before 2050, the population will almost inevitably decrease by about 50% (Ediev, 2001, p. 302-303). The population decline in Russia is dramatic. In other words, Russia faces a serious demographic crisis that needs to be solved as soon as possible. This paper will examine the reasons and explain why the population of Russia declines based on birth and death rates, substance abuse, mortality rates, economic, culture and political changes, migration, international trafficking and adoption. Low birth rate is the direct factor of population decline. Almost all of the developed country experience negative population growth. But Russia has that problem even more serious than others. In 2000 the Russian birth rate was lower than in any developed country in the world (Shlapentokh, 2005, p.952). One of the reasons why that happened because women in Russia change the concept of child-bearing over the time. They don't want to have children because it takes significant time and resources to raise a child (McKinney, 2009, p.20). They don't want to use their time on bearing children. They have good education and want to put more attention on their career development. That causes the base...
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...Stigma and Counseling Methods associated with Abortions Marsha Escayg Medgar Evers College The abortion rates in the United States is higher than that in most other developed countries. Although this fact alone requires attention, looking deeper reveals additional areas of concern. According to Greene this research is based on the different confinements on abortion that have been forced under the falsification that women may be ignorant, undecided or pressured as to their choice to end a pregnancy. Of all the health decisions women make in their lifetimes, their choice to end a pregnancy is among the most individual and socially challenged. What this article does is address the gap in knowledge by describing the counseling tools and practices at one large abortion clinic in the US. It examines how confidence in decisions making varies by demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of women and pregnancy-related attributes. Furthermore it reviews women’s responses to questions aimed at identifying those with specific beliefs about spirituality or abortion. Overall what was found was that upon arrival to the clinic women had high pre-counseling confidence in their decision to terminate their pregnancy. Abortion policies concentrates on prerequisites, for example, waiting periods, state-mandated information and parental association. These laws are focused around the premise that women are unaware of the nature of the abortion and the dangers included, and require extra data...
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...Should Abortion be Legal Kristy Love COMM/215 Essentials of College Writing 09/29/2014 Dr. Laura Wilson Should Abortion be Legal? Ever since the case of Roe Wade in 1973, abortion has been one of the most contentious issues in our society, this has been controversy for years now. The sound of that word can cause an environment to go from cheery to tense. People suddenly become, avoiding the topic that they know if engage will become passionate and fiery debate. Those who for abortion want to protect the rights of women and what they can do for their own bodies, while those against it firmly believe in the rights of the unborn child. There is, however great speculation between what we call “pro-filer” and “pro-choicer”. People that are pro-choice have their reasons. They believe it’s a women’s body. She should be able to decide whether or not if she doesn’t want the fetus. Another reason people support abortion rights is for certain reasons. Examples of this are rape, teen pregnancy, or sickness the mother may have. Abortion can also result into not being able to get pregnant in the future, many sicknesses and even death. Abortion affects both victims in dangerous and physicals ways. Some people don’t support this procedure because they fill that the women are highly risking the mother’s life and affecting her. Not only does it have an effect on the USA but, it affects other countries as well. Should Abortion be Legal? As we all know, there are...
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...Phase 5 Individual Project Abortion is a Luxury We Can Do Without Prepared by: Esther Williams Date: June 25, 2012 Introduction My thesis statement “Abortion is a luxury that we can do without” is very true. Some have said that abortion is a good way to control overpopulation. This argument tends to be a little over dramatic. It would be far less costly to not only the individual but also the country to simply wear a condom. Surveys show that the age which has the highest rate of abortion is between 20 – 24 years. This tells me that in most cases they are not children and more often than not abortion is being used as a convenient way to get rid of an inconvenience and rarely is abortion because of a need. The discussion on abortion has been taking place for many years and despite the many laws passed this topic has touched the very core of many persons’ beliefs and concerns. Many believe that a fetus is a human and as such the taking of like is potentially murder while others believe that a fetus in not yet a human. The various laws that have been passed placing some restrictions on abortionists have been met with resistance. There are a number of options now available to persons that would result in no pregnancies in the first place that I find it difficult to understand the necessity of abortion this wide scale that we now see in many economies. The cost to healthcare and the various health risks both physically and psychologically...
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...being able to experience the world we know of today? Many bypass this thought process when considering abortion. Women instead think of themselves and their situation when debating the option of abortion. Life is valuable period. Regardless of whether there are good outcomes of abortion, or negative outcomes of abortion, I am against abortion. Regardless of what is going on in life, women know that the only way to not get pregnant is through the choice of abstinence, but they still choose to have sex. With this being a problem it makes abortion look really evil due to careless and selfish choices that women are making today. Abortion has been overthrown and battled in many courts with different cases and the procedure of abortion has granted because the right of the constitution protects the choices that women make with the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment. The constitution protects the rights of women in many different ways including the choice of what women want to do with their bodies. These three amendments make abortion legal and create a bigger problem of diminishing this evil operation for the fact that abortion has been approved by judges all across America. In prior cases, such as Roe vs. Wade, argue that in the case of abortion, it is unconstitutional to take the rights of women away as a citizen and force women to birth a child. In the case of Roe vs. Wade, abortion was granted and deemed constitutional and this decision was based on the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment...
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...the rest of them. In fact, female adolescents whose friends engage in sexual behavior were found to be more likely to do the same compared to those who do not associate with such peers. If the teen perceives her peers to look negatively at premarital sex, she was more likely to start sex at a later age. Numbers Statistics in the United States show that each year, almost 1 million teenage women—10 percent of all women aged 15-19 and 19 percent of those who have had sexual intercourse—become pregnant and onefourth of teenage mothers have a second child within two years of their first. In the Philippines, according to the 2002 Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study by the University of the Philippines Population Institute (Uppi) and the Demographic Research and Development Foundation, 26 percent of our Filipino youth nationwide from ages 15 to 25 admitted to having a premarital sex experience. What’s worse is that 38 percent of our youth are...
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...People in India have old habits, and young girls are married by the binding of old habits. Women’s rights are not respected by many families in India especially when it comes to marriage; they are obligated to marry someone who was chosen by father or relatives. Probably the most important is the tradition of dowry payment to a prospective husband. Having to marry a girl off may be the equivalent of several years of income for a family. A daughter is often seen as a thief who will rob necessary resources . Restrictive property rules, where inheritance is passed from father to son rather than to daughters, male dominated funeral rights and parental hopes that male breadwinners will support them through old age also play a part in skewing demographics. This kind of situation causing so many problems in India with pre marriage and no limits on births, and overpopulation in India is very large and Indian...
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...1. What is the ‘One-Child Policy’? China’s Demographic Transition Model China’s Demographic Transition Model The Chinese ‘One-Child Policy’ was introduced in 1978 by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. His aim was to limit communist China's population growth by limiting couples t6o only one child. Although designated a "temporary measure," it still continues to be in use a 25 years after it was established. In this time the rule has been estimated to have reduced population growth in the country of over 1.3 billion by as much as 300 million people in the first twenty years. During Mao Zedong’s leadership of China infant mortality declined from 227 births in 1949 to 53 in 1981 per 1000 live births, and life expectancy dramatically increased from around 35 in 1949 to 66 years in 1976. The policy was introduced because up until the 1960s, the government encouraged families to have as many children as possible this is due to president Mao Zedong’s belief that population growth empowered the country. He prevented the rise of family planning programs thus increasing birth rates. The population grew from around 540 million in 1949 to 940 million in 1976. Several years later Song Jian, one of china’s top officials read the books ‘The Limits of Growth’ and ‘A Blue Print For Survival’, he then went onto calculate the correct population for China to be 700 million, 240million less than the population at the time. The One-Child policy was introduced to reduce China’s population to...
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...Dominisha Johnson ENG 101 December 13, 2015 Miller-Motte College Abortions in todays’ society According to www.tfpstudentaction.org, since the legalization of abortions in 1973, over 56 million unborn babies have been killed. This is more than the entire population of Spain. That makes 155 babies per hour, or about 1 baby every 24 seconds. How can we remain indifferent to such immense human slaughter? I have a strong passion and love for children and feel it is unfair to take their life without giving them a chance. Abortions are also a form of murder which goes against the bible’s teachings. The Holy Bible makes references about how it is unacceptable and sinful to commit murder. For example, “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13, King James Version), tells us that it is wrong to kill or abort a fetus even though the baby is not yet born he/she is still considered a living being. Jeremiah 1:5 tells us that God knows us before He forms us in the womb, which means regardless of how you may have became pregnant, God has a plan and purpose for you and that child before He placed he/she in your life. Another important verse to think about says, “Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person” (Deuteronomy 27:25, King James Version). I feel this verse is saying, when a woman choose to have an abortion she’s gaining an award of having to live her life without the child she was blessed with and in return she will be cursed in life because she shed innocent blood...
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...3. Interventions Recommended 3a. Training of Health Professionals One of the most important interventions stated in the research in regards to using misoprostol for a medical abortion is comprehensive counseling conducted by a healthcare professional. This is to ensure a positive experience for the woman during her pregnancy termination (Zamberlin et al. 2012). Of key importance is having a clinic where staff are knowledgeable and skilled in misoprostol use for medical abortion, especially in settings where there is stigma surrounding abortion care, where there is minimal access to safe abortion services and where unsafe abortion is common (Billings 2004). However, multiple studies have identified a serious lack of knowledge among health providers...
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...The Congress is consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives, which represents the interest of the citizens of the United States. Congress consists of elected officials that we the people elected. The Senate and House of Representatives both make laws, but the Senate, under the Constitution, has certain granted powers that the House of Representatives do not have. The House of Representatives serves for two terms and the Senate serves six-year terms (Larson, 2015). The Senate is composed of 100 members and each state has two Senators. Only 20 percent of Senators are females per the 113th Congress (2015). The mark-up of the congress does not reflect the demographic of the United States. By the Senate being 80 percent male, this is an over representation of the 49.2 percent males in the United States (Male, 2014). Another example of over representation, the House of Representatives has 82.2 percent of males. As the bible states, “For I know...
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...In the world today that abortion takes place every second of every day. Abortion is a big topic in this generation because of have uncontrolled hormones the miss connection of love and responsibility and what it brings to the table. They lack to fully understand the presents and laws to childhood care because yet they are still children themselves. When we misuse this we tend to fall into wrong decision making of abortion. Abortion ties into what some say the killing of a human life. We fail to realize the fact of when does life begin. Many may claim that life begins as we form in our mother’s uterus. (According to prolife physicians.com) human life begins as we are able to adapt, reproduce, organized, have energy etc. Does this really define that we are able to still take a life that has never displayed these actions but will. Many people will agree that during every abortion and innocent human being is killed. They also stop to think that when does life begin or is abortion just abortion. According to pro-choice network human life begins as a baby / fetus begins to breathe on its own without the mothers support (Pro-choice network). In the world today laws have been developed in many states that there is a set time for a women to abort her child or fetus. Women can only have abortion between eight to twelve weeks of pregnancy. This comeback to the question when are we considered human beings viewpoints regarding this issue vary wildly, but after clarification of why one should...
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