...Abortion Case Study (Part Two) Abortion legalization in our society is a social problem. This is classified as a social problem in our society because it affects individuals in our society negatively and is talked about often. There are two claims that I will talk about in this case study, the two are Pro-Life Action League and NARAL Pro-Choice America. Pro-Life Action League suggests that the legalization of abortion is not the right way to handle it and that abortions are considered murders. On the other hand, NARAL Pro-Choice suggests that abortion is a choice that all women should have for themselves. The first I will talk about is the Pro-Life Action League. The big message that they want to get across is that abortion should be considered...
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...Abortion and Free Markets A social problem or issue is something that people believe should be corrected into a legal action; one social problem that has been on the government’s agenda for several years, abortion. It involves the fundamental rights for all women and teens when deciding whether or not to abort a child. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2011 reported that abortions accounted for 9.3 percent (CDC, 2011). This percentage of takes into account rape, incest, abusive relationships, and the health or life of the mother and baby. The reasons for abortions are what the government considers the most important for an abortion to be considered legal. Although limited reasons, other reasons were found for wanting an abortion such as not wanting a child or the inability to afford a child could possibly be a legitimate reasons. In fact, during that time the case of Roe v. Wade was being heard in court, nearly 55 million abortions were performed in the United States legally – which averages of about 1.5 million per year (Pazol, Creanga, Burley, & Jamieson, 2014). Thanks to Roe v. Wade abortion became partly legal because it was considered unconstitutional to women and violated their human rights (ProCon, 2015). It is clear that the government believes in their interests of protecting life versus the personal rights of women around the world. Women of all ages have the right to make critical decisions about their own bodies and when the government steps...
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...Social Problems in Societies Caroline Muthoni Kagane Kenyatta University Social Problems in Societies. A social problem is an issue that has an impact on members of society. It either affects members directly or indirectly. These are problems that a community agrees to be acceptable or unacceptable. Things like abortion, poverty, drug abuse and domestic violence can be listed as examples of social problems (Linda, David , & Caroline , 2012). Drug abuse is excessive, irrational and self-damaging use of a substance resulting to continuous craving, psychological damage, illusion or death. Drug abuse is a societal problem mainly affecting the youth both in school and out. Most youths engage in drug abuse out of peer pressure from friends who recruit each other into cults. The use of drugs in societies is high where the level of literacy is low. Nana (2006) notes that learned youths who are struggling to find good job after they are through with their education, get frustrated and engage themselves in use of drugs. This is one of the major problems in many societies where people cannot find job that match their level of education hence find comfort in use of drugs. Easy availability of drugs in today’s society makes it effortless for many people to get access to drug resulting to even small children using drugs. There are so many outlets where people can get drugs at a cheaper price hence so many people engaging themselves in drug abuse (Bosco & Moses...
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...Social Issues in the Contemporary United States Rebecca Hall, RN There is a large ongoing list of social issues that are facing the U.S. today. One of the top contenders on that list is the topic of abortion. Abortion in relation to this issue means a termination of a pregnancy. Abortion can occur in any trimester of pregnancy. The issue that faces the U.S. is whether or not abortion should be legal. (Henslin, 2011) To many, abortion is equivalent to murder. It is taking the life of an innocent unborn child. It is inhumane and should be considered illegal. Many people that support the anti-abortion cause base their foundations not only emotionally but also biblically. These people often use biblical scripture that relates to “thou shalt not kill” or the importance and preciousness of human life. (Henslin, 2011) On the opposing end, abortion activists view abortion as a choice for the mother. To this group a law against elected abortion is a violation of a woman’s right to make decisions in relation to her own body. Many debates that arise from this point of view vary from issues of rape causing the unplanned pregnancy, to the simple inconvenience of having a child at that point in time. (Henslin, 2011) Another issue that arises when the issue of criminalizing abortion, is that fact that some people may continue to get abortions illegally and will not receive the proper healthcare that coincides with that type of procedure. Many believe that some women will still have the...
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...answer is yes. But it is a shame that abortion is destroying our dream and faith. It can not be denied that abortion is acceptable for some people as it exactly provides them a few benefits but quantities of evidence have proved that abortion should be banned as it not only do great great harm to mother’s health and society but it is also immoral indeed. So, please save the poor babies and ourselves! Hundreds of studies prove that abortion can harm mothers’ health a lot as abortion is unnatural, seriously against the law of nature[1]. Some peole supporting abortion may think that if only they can tolerate the pain during the pocess of abortion, then everything will be fine. However, they may be wrong! Aborion can do worse than that. Quantities of gynaecologist have warned that abortion can lead to several problems such as an increase risk of breast cancer and barrenness. It is because when a woman is going to give birth to her baby, a surge of endocrine hormone will appear in her body, getting the mother into the preparation for the coming of her sweet heart. But abortion forces the pregnancy to terminate, suddenly disturbing the excretion of endocrine hormone and leaving the mother’s body to lose her balance which leads her to become more delicate in fornt of diseases. Therefore, abortion should be banned. Besides the harm to women’s health, abortion also impact society much! [2] Quantities of supporters of abortion argue that abortion is just a personal chioce but in fact...
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...| Abortion | A Social Problem | | Raven Sutton | 8/1/2012 | | Abortion Abortion is a social problem. The important ways of looking at the issue of abortion are most easily categorized into five major points, legal precedence, birth control issues, human rights, religion and when life begins. In all of these categories there are issues with abortion that people that based on both empirical and moral claims, a wide spectrum of views supporting either more or less legal restriction on abortions has emerged in America. Advocacy groups define the issue through its constitutionality and its moral views represented by their constituents, but politicians define the issue by party lines, generally with liberals as “pro-choice” and conservatives as “pro-life.” The media defines the issue morally, presenting to the nation the views of various “pro-life” and “pro-choice” organizations with little empirical evidence from both sides. Ever since the landmark Roe v. Wade, abortion law has continued to protect the woman’s right to choose. Supreme Court cases have placed the woman’s right to choose under the right to privacy and therefore they have considered it protected by the US constitution. Also, when Norma McCorvey (also known as Jane Roe) tried to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision in her 2005 Supreme Court Case, McCorvey v. Hill (2005), the Supreme Court denied the case thus supporting the statute that Roe v. Wade had created. The precedent set in Roe v. Wade has...
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...United States Supreme Court legalized abortion in the Roe vs Wade decision. Many people today are concerned not only with the legal and moral aspects of that decision but about the effects it has on women’s health. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan asked the Surgeon General to research and issue a report on the psychological consequences that abortion had on women’s health. According to the surgeon general’s research, there was not sufficient evidence to compile a report. He stated “obstetricians and gynecologists had long since concluded that the physical sequence of abortion was no different than those found in women who carried to term or had never been pregnant” (Koop, 1989, p.195). The American Psychological...
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...Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in society today. This topic has become a very large dispute due to the right of having choices in society. A woman’s right to choose to have an abortion or not, is legally her fundamental right. However, if society outlaws the choice of having an abortion, society is interfering with the woman’s right to make decisions related to her own body. Therefore, this is when the question comes in on whether abortion should be justifiable or not looking at factors influencing one’s decisions, the effects of religious norms, structural constraints, and personal religiosity. This argumentative topic can be supported from the sociological concepts of sociological imagination and social conflict in society...
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... Abortion Should Be Limited By Law The term “induced abortion” is likely very familiar to most people nowadays, according to a Chinese National Population and Family Planning Commission research study, China has more than 13 million cases of induced abortion every year, which is, undoubtedly, an incredibly high number, even for China. In the abortion controversy, the most appropriate approach is to limit abortions by law, which means to identify when and which abortions should be legalized because limit abortion can promote women’s health both mentally and physically, solve a series of social problems such as reduce the possibility of premarital pregnancy, mitigate the gender discrimination problem and promote the condom use. Essentially to adopt part of Hong Kong’s restriction of abortion. In Hong Kong, abortion is not allowed except for some special cases as follows: 1. two doctors find out that the pregnant woman may suffer from physical or mental harm, they agree and sign an informed consent form for the pregnant woman. 2. The unborn baby has been confirmed that is likely to be a severe deformed fetus. 3. The age of the pregnant woman is under 16 years old. 4. The woman becomes pregnant by rape or incest. This law is a proper law to limit abortions but it is not so available in Chinese mainland because one-child policy was launched here. So for Chinese government, a further consideration of the relationship between one-child policy and abortion should be taken...
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...Social problems and issues are experienced by many individuals. For example, those that face poverty can also be unemployed, have family issues, and can face poor health due to the inability to obtain health insurance or even afford to pay their co-pay when they do have health insurance. Those who do live in poverty are also assumed to be more disposed to a commit crime and suffer from addiction and substance abuse. It is easy to assume that these individuals suffer these problems alone and that they are entirely to blame when it comes to the various issues and poverty they face on a day to day basis. (Mills, 1959). However, “Sociology takes a different approach, as it stresses that individual problems are often rooted in problems stemming...
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...Mary Winn 10/24/13 Does an Elective Abortion Lead to Negative Psychological Effects? Pro • Abortion can be considered a trauma. Approximately 10% of women undergoing induced abortion suffer from immediate complications, of which one-fifth (2%) were considered major. Women who abort are approximately four times more likely to die in the following year than women who carry their pregnancies to term. The leading causes of abortion related maternal deaths within a week of the surgery are hemorrhage, infection, embolism, anesthesia, and undiagnosed ectopic pregnancies. Legal abortion is reported as the fifth leading cause of maternal death in the United States, though in fact it is recognized that most abortion-related deaths are not officially reported as such. Women with a history of one abortion face a 2.3 times higher risk of having cervical cancer, compared to women with no history of abortion. Women with two or more abortions face a 4.92 relative risk. Similar elevated risks of subsequent ovarian and liver cancer have also been linked to single and multiple abortions. These increased cancer rates for post-aborted women may be linked to the unnatural disruption of the hormonal changes which accompany pregnancy and untreated cervical damage or to increased stress and the negative impact of stress on the immune system. Approximately 10% of women undergoing elective abortion will suffer immediate complications, of which approximately one-fifth (2%) are considered life...
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...Abortion: A Benefit or a Loss? Various organizations all over the world strike down every law that regulates or restricts the practice of abortion. This action is based on the premise that advances of modern medicine have now made abortion “relatively safe”. However, national statistics have shown that 10% of women undergoing abortion suffer from immediate complications, of which one-fifth were considered major (Frank et. al., 1985). Nearly 100,000 women who have abortions every year end up in the hospital (The New York Times, pp. B-5). As more cases of abortion result to damage, many begin to question the effects of abortion. Despite the dispute that abortion is beneficial to women, it is detrimental not only to the physical health of women, but also to their emotional and psychological, and social aspects. Each year in the Philippines, hundreds of thousands of women become pregnant without intending to, and many women with unintended pregnancies decide to end them by abortion. Supporters of abortion argue that abortion is beneficial to women in a lot of ways. Abortion gives women a choice and it helps the women financially. We must admit that these advantages offer a lot of relief to women; however, there are drawbacks that post great danger to women who undergo abortion. According to the best record based study of deaths following pregnancy and abortion, a 1997 government funded study in Finland, women who abort are approximately four times more likely to die in the...
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...confirmation of a pregnancy and an abortion. 2. In what year did the Supreme Court rule that abortions were legal? 3. The 1992 Supreme Court decision in the Casey vs. Planned Parenthood case upheld a Pennsylvania law that placed which of the following restrictions on abortion? 4. In 1973, abortion became legal in the United States by virtue of 5. The Hyde Amendment, passed by Congress in 1976, 6. A researcher asks, "What is your relationship to the people you are living with?" He provides the following list of choices: parents/relatives, friends, spouse, living by myself, other. What method of gaining information is being used? 7. A social problem for some may be a solution for others. 8. The first state to define abortion as a private, noncriminal act was Alaska. 9. The text argues that one of the ways that sociologists can promote a better understanding of social problems is by 10. In Kristin Luker's study of an abortion clinic, she found that many unmarried women who obtained abortions had not used contraceptives because they did not want to confront the fact that they were sexually active. 11. One of the major advantages of using openended rather than closedended questions is that 12. Experiments are rarely used in the study of social problems because 13. According to Georg Simmel, subordinate/dominant relationships are normally characterized by the exercise of oneway naked power rather than by some form of social exchange. 14. ________...
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...Intro: Abortion can be defined as purposeful interruption of the process of development at whichever particular time after conception to birth. In medical terms it can be referred to as termination of a pregnancy before the normal development of a fetus that is ending the gestation after the zygote attaches it self on the uterine wall and before the fetus is able to survive on its own. There are two types of abortion; accidental which occurs without a medical intervention mostly known as miscarriage and therapeutic which is carried out by a physician. Abortion therefore ends pregnancy and prevents women from having babies. In some countries around the world it is a means of birth control and it is therefore a legal procedure. In other countries, there are varying views pertaining abortion and therefore termed as illegal. Abortion can be carried out in different ways; medical abortion, manual vacuum aspiration, suction and curettage abortion and dilation and evacuation (Robinson, 1997). is the practice of terminating a pregnancy resulting in, or closely followed by, the death of the human fetus. In 1973 the famous court case of Roe versus Wade legalized abortion in the United States. Since that time, despite the occurrence of over thirty-five million abortions, abortion has become a prevalent social issue, extremely debatable and controversial. For the most part people can be divided into two basic categories: those in favor of abortion and those opposed to it. Both groups...
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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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