...these options is called abortion. It is widely frowned upon by different religious groups, and those who follow that...
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...page touch on various topics. In one way or another, however, they all deal with the moral law, particularly with regard to the protection of innocent human life. It is our hope that these writings will assist those in the trenches who are fighting the "good fight," as well the many who are confused about truth and law and have lost their way. What About Abortion An essay written by Larry Bohannon. This essay briefly explains the realities of abortion, and is written for college students and young adults. Evil in Our Time An essay on abortion by Larry Bohannon. This essay answers the questions: why has the tragedy of abortion happened in our time and what can we do to stop it. Pro-Life Speech on the National Sanctity of Human Life day A speech by Larry Bohannon presented to Garden Oaks Baptist Church in Houston Texas for the 2003 National Sanctity of Human Life day. The pro-choice movement: Safe, legal, as often as possible Benjamin Shapiro on the irony of the pro-choice movement's claim for "safe, legal and rare" abortion. Turkeys matter, but children are a choice Mychal Massie on the reality of abortion contrasted to the silence of black leadership on the subject. R.I.P. Connor Peterson An essay by Vox Day, a columnist for World Net...
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...Pro Choice Becky Davis Bcom275 Monday March 5, 2012 Dick VanCleave Pro-Choice Pro-choice abortion is the belief that women have the right to choose to abort a baby from their body. The "pro-choice" view is that a baby does not have human rights within the mother's womb. The people of the United States never voted on or supported this pro-choice position. Actually, it was the U.S. Supreme Court that legalized abortion. In the article by ChristiaNet it states “The health threat to the mother after going through with the procedure as well as the lifelong health risks that remain should be good enough reasons abortion should be illegal.” However, I believe that abortions are safer than childbirth? According to MMR (Maternal Mortality Ratio) complications during pregnancy and childbirth are a leading cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age in developing countries. The decision to continue your pregnancy or to end it is very personal. The most common reasons women consider having an abortion is the inability to support or care for a child, the pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, Physical or mental conditions that will endanger the health of the mother or the child if the pregnancy continued. These examples alone justify the legalization of abortions. Although, in the article by ChristiaNet it states “There are many...
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...Abortion is a highly controversial issue in the United States today. There are those who argue that life beings at conception and that terminating a pregnancy is equivalent to murder. These pro-life supporters have relatively immovable opinions on abortion. In the past, they have done all they could to prevent abortions, using tactics ranging from protesting and lobbying to methods as deadly as bombing abortion clinics. On the other hand, there are pro-choice supporters as well who argue that women have the right to choose what happens to their own bodies and that a fetus is not a living person, but a part of the mother herself. They propose that though abortions should always be limited, psychological, maturity, and economic issues are all acceptable reasons for women to be able to choose whether or not they want to carry a child for nine months. In April 2009, 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave a speech at Evansville, Indiana, where she argues against abortion. She fights for her beliefs, claiming that “life is ordained, life is precious” and no selfish decisions should stand in the way of a life from living. Her ethos and utilization of pathos are both tactical techniques used to argue against the practice of abortion to try and convince her audience to fight against it as well. Palin’s entire argument against abortion would not matter unless she had any credibility that would allow the audience to deem her respectable and her opinion worth listening...
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...is known for the lack of professional performed abortions. Women are often denied the procedure and sent to clinics outside of Prince Edward Island to receive proper care. This province is very Catholic, therefore majority of the citizens are in favour of the government not funding abortions. Nearly all hospitals in any Maritime Provinces will not perform abortions on women from outside of the province. Women who get this of news are left “confused and scared about what was happening inside”(Harrowing Experiences of Medical Abortions on Canada's Prince Edward Island Renews Criticism) their bodies. As a result, close to 200 women from Prince Edward Island will travel to Nova Scotia or New Brunswick...
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...Governor Dewhurst played the antagonist role since he was pushing for abortion to be banned from Texas. He plans to revive an intense hostile to fetus removal proposition and shepherd it through the Republican-controlled Assembly, in the midst of feedback that he messed up the exertion and attempted to keep running over protesters to the bill at the tumultuous end of the unique authoritative session a week ago. One strategy that he tried to use was to move fast with the process to prevent the filibuster but he fail on the task. He also tried to make himself look guilt-free as soon as the filibuster began that Saturday by saying, “We’re not exactly in a polite conversation with our opponents who don’t believe in the sanctity of life,” and “Instead we’re in the midst of an epic struggle for the very future of this state...
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...Avery Klemp English 105/106 Mrs. Pulis 10/13/14 Abortion Abortion has been a controversial topic in America for a very long time. Society believes that abortion is immoral and considers abortion to be murder. People that do not support, or “pro-lifersâ€, believe that if abortion were illegal there would not be any abortions performed. However, over 70,000 maternal deaths occur every year due to unsafe abortions (AboutNews). These women die making the idea of pro-life extremely contradictory. The government should not be able to make medical decisions for women in America. Pro-choice is necessary in America so women who have life threatening conditions due to their pregnancy or are victims of sexual crimes are given reproductive freedom. Women who are victims of rape or incest should not be forced to carry out a pregnancy. Pro-choice means that all women should have the right to make their own choice when it comes to their body. If a woman is raped and becomes pregnant, the idea of keeping the child may or may not be too much for her to psychologically deal with. People who believe in Pro-choice have sympathy for this woman, whereas Pro-life supporters call her a murderer. Society must accept that women who are victims of these crimes deal with the issue differently and regardless of your own opinion, it is simply not right for the government to take away a woman’s choice to terminate a pregnancy if she so chooses. Survey taken by Gallup Politics from American citizens...
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...argument between pro-life and pro-choice has been going on indefinitely. To say that someone is “pro-life” is to say that someone believes that the government has the right to preserve all human life regardless of the quality of life. To be “pro-choice” is to believe that individuals have the right to make decisions in respect to their own body and reproductive system. The legality of this medical procedure has the potential to affect all women in some way during their lifetime and while a major focus of the abortion debate has been morality, it is also important to reflect on the subject...
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...Abortion: Right or Wrong? Kymber McLay Charter College Abstract Start Abstract here Keywords: This paper explores the pros and cons of abortion. Many people believe differently on whether it is right or wrong. [ Abortion ]: Right or Wrong? Abortion has been a huge topic in the United States for years now, and whether it is the right thing to do or not has caused many debates. It was declared a fundamental right by the U.S. Supreme Court during Roe vs. Wade, yet many people beg to differ. The ones who believe it is right identify themselves as pro-choice, believing that abortion is a woman’s right and that it should not be limited by governmental or religious authority. Identifying as pro-life, the opponents believe that it is immoral killing and that personhood begins at conception. No matter what each side thinks, there will always be arguments about it. The choice to abort a fetus is central to a woman’s independence and ability to determine her own future. "A woman's autonomy to determine her life's course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature,” stated by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg during Gonzales vs. Carhart (2007). A woman’s decision can affect her life for the good or the bad, but if abortion was illegal, then a woman cannot make the best decision for herself. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote, "The ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability...
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...The debate over whether or not abortions should be legal continues to divide many individuals in America long after the US Supreme Court’s 7-2 ruling on Roe v. Wade declaring the procedure a “fundamental right” almost half a century ago (Narla 2014). Proponents (pro-choice) contend that the decisions to get an abortion should be ultimately the choice of the individual. Nor government or religious institution should have a legal say in the decision of when, where, and why the individual is seeking the procedure. Opponents (pro-life) stipulate that life begins at conception and abortion is the immoral killing of a human being. It’s a difficult line to walk. I am pro-choice; however, I am against it being used as a form of contraception all the time, but mistakes are made. Nevertheless, abortions should be allowed without exceptions. We are imperfect beings in an imperfect world and we make mistakes. Contraceptives do not guarantee that a couple will not get pregnant. And to force beliefs of certain individuals onto others is preposterous; abstaining is not for everyone. Why should a couple, especially a woman, go through with pregnancy and childbirth because the methods of contraception failed? Why overpopulate a world that is bursting at the seams already? It’s harsh, but it’s the cold, hard truth. Abortion fixes a lot of health related problems. Abnormalities are found in utero that could make for a difficult life for both the parents and children. Some laws, state that after...
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...Khaleq Memene May 8, 2015 Bioethics 1B Dr. Gildersleeve Subjective Speech Test Love Life Tearing human beings apart limb from limb; snapping spines; stabbing bodies; crushing skulls. No, it is not a scene from a horror movie. These gruesome procedures are currently taking place right now. “It seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.” – Mahatma Gandhi. Abortion is one of the greatest evils to have befallen in this day and age. Some synonyms of abortion when looked up are “disaster,” “failure,” and “fiasco.” When power crosses with human nature, trouble seems to stir. In fact, pro-abortionists seem to think that they have the power to dictate whether a human being will rightly live or will die horrifically. Without the right to life, all other rights are meaningless. Without life, there can be no freedom, no foundation, no nation. Roe v Wade is the landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. Decided simultaneously with a companion case, Doe v. Bolton, the Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion. There is no doubt, Women deserve the utmost respect and they deserve to have the same rights as a man. With that being said, are women really respected by being traumatized and disrespected by means of abortion procedures? Is it right to put women lives at risk to do an unjustified wrong? Even more, if all are entitled...
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...choice on abortion to continue. The main debate is whether abortion is moral or immoral. One of the great things about being human is to have individual thoughts and opinions. That is something that will never change. In this paper, I will first discuss what abortion is as well as its origin. With the use of various sources, I will showcase statistics that lend support to how I came to the determination that abortion should remain legal. These statistics will include abortion rates in the United States vs. the rest of the world, how income or poverty levels affect abortion, and individual frequency of abortion. Abortion is arguably the most highly debated topic in our society today. Also, despite there being many social issues that divide our country, abortion remains to be the most divisive to date. Abortion is the pre-birth termination of a fetus at different stages of pregnancy before life is self-sustainable while still in the mother’s womb. The backbone of the United States has and will always be that all people are created equally and that every person has “certain unalienable rights by their Creator”. Declaration of Independence has been the defense certain rights such as free speech, religion, the right to bear arms, the right to a trial, etc., but it is not limited to these rights. The Declaration of Independence and the Bible are now quoted on a regular basis for those that agree with abortion as well as those that oppose legality of it (“Abortion, the Declaration...
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...Reducing the Number of Abortions in Society Reducing the Number of Abortions in Society Michelle Donaldson Breckinridge School of Nursing-Student Should we reduce abortions in the world and literally control the rights of women to decide for themselves? This is the question I will discuss in this paper, one that I feel is very important to the betterment of society in regards to human kind as a whole. Is it a choice that should be the right of the pregnant woman, or is it a choice that should be made by our society, thus taking away a basic human right to control a woman’s self and body. We shall see. Abortion is, as simply put on the website Medicinenet.com, “In medicine, an abortion is the premature exit of the products of conception (the fetus, fetal membranes, and placenta) from the uterus. It is the loss of a pregnancy and does not refer to why that pregnancy was lost” (Medicinenet.com, 2013). Now, as one can tell, this is a rather generic definition for abortion. It encompasses abortions of all types, whether it be natural or human induced. That being said, abortion by the medical industry absolutely carries with it many ethical and moral conundrums. Is it right for the individual to decide whether or not a child should be born, and is it ethical for the medical institutions to be a participant in the abortion process? These questions have sparked a very adamant debate in recent years and in fact have spread into a very volatile situation for both sides. We must...
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...i Abortion Controversy: Conflicting Beliefs and Values In American Society By: Joseph B. Tamney, Stephen D. Johnson, and Ronald Burton Submitted By: Thomala J. Hollingsworth Sociology 100 Professor: Gwendolyn Royal-Smith February 26, 2013 ii Abstract This study examines the ideological and structured basis for attitudes and political action relating to abortion. A sample from “Middletown” in fall of 1989 showed that most people believed that abortion begins at conception, a belief in privacy rights, and religion. Social traditionalism also played an important role in a pro-life stand, which is only influential for conservative Protestants and not for Catholics. Catholics believe in abstinence and refraining from taking anyone’s life as it relates to abortion. The political action, the data showed that the pro-life movement was more important in 1989 than the pro-choice movement. Party identification was not used for abortion as a political litmus test. However, attending pro-life churches did increase the likelihood of using abortion for voting decisions. I am interested in this particular article because the subject of legalized abortion or the lack thereof, hits home for me. I feel that women everywhere should have the right to say what happens to their bodies, which is in the United States, even in other countries where women are not allowed to have freedom of speech and treated unequally. Legalized Abortion I Women...
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...Most common in the first-trimester, medical abortions are those induced by pharmaceuticals. They can cost up to $800, but they usually end up being less than that because the total cost is dependent on how many additional tests the patient decides to have done. The most common medicine used to induce an abortion is called mifepristone. This specific pill is said to be very effective and has a success rate of 97 out of 100. Abortion pills can be found at clinics, and they are usually accompanied by antibiotics. The first abortion pill, mifepristone, works to block the hormone, progesterone. Without this specific hormone, the lining of the uterus breaks down so the pregnancy is unable to continue. Next, a medicine called misoprostal is taken...
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