Abortion In St. Larch's

Another pro-life group is known as the Pro-life Action League. This group holds prayer vigils outside abortion facilities and provides sidewalk counseling to women and/or couples seeking abortions. The goal of this is to provide abortion alternatives, counseling, access to pregnancy resources, etc. This group is also involved in public protests to raise awareness of the injustice of abortion; they participate in marches, pickets, prayer vigils, and also raise awareness by holding large abortion pictures on busy streets to show what the end result of abortion is on an unborn child. They also hold a monthly protest at Planned Parenthood in Aurora, one of the busiest Planned Parenthood clinics, and protest pro-abortion politicians and other public figures that oppose the rights of unborn babies. Some of the other objectives of this group are to confront abortionists, abortion promoters, infiltrate pro-choice group meetings, and provide training to pro-life activists to help them organize effective programs and become successful pro-life leaders. I have discussed four very different groups, half are pro-choice and half are pro-life. While researching groups actively participating in rallying for or against abortion, there were so many with different tactics and resources available for both sides of the abortion debate.

Bertha, M. (2014). Pro-Life, Pro-Choice : Shared Values in the Abortion Debate. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. https://fortlewis.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search- ebscohost-com.fortlewis.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edspmu&AN=edspmu.9780826519924&site=eds-live&scope=site Throughout this book, Bertha claims that she is for pro choice, but at the end of the reading, she states that she has changed her beliefs to pro life. This specific author performed studies, exams, courses, and clinicals and discovered the facts about the harm that takes place to your body after having an abortion. Bertha discusses the hard, mental griefs and traumas that follow the procedure, as well as the uneasy argument about the virtuous worth of the human fetus. The author brings experience to the discussion through the psychological department, being an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University, as well as having written many informative and knowledgeable articles.

Abortion refers to the intentional termination of human pregnancy. Abortion is normally carried out during the first few weeks of pregnancy and may be worse if done after many months. There are dangers and benefits of conducting an abortion. Besides this, countries have also laid own laws regulating abortion. More details about abortion are given below.

In the news article “Abortion: Every Woman’s Rights” Sharon Smith wrote an article about women’s rights to get abortions prior to the hearing of the Planned Parenthood v. Casey court case, “which threatened to severely restrict women access to abortion” (Smith). Women wanted reproductive control over their lives and felt that they were not equal to men no matter what advances they got at work and how high their level of education was. The women’s right movement wanted women to have the choice of abortion for all women, the rich and the poor. In the US, thirty- seven states did not provide

Abortion is the process of intentionally ending a pregnancy. Abortion touches the hearts of many because its consequences result in the loss of a human life. Its controversy stems from the fact that people’s opinions on this matter are rooted in their value systems, religious beliefs, and political socialization. Its prominence in political discussions today is likely to continue given the relationship between unwanted pregnancies and overpopulation. There is often debate about the constitutionality of abortion, as it is not specifically addressed by any doctrine. As a result, there has never been an explicit national law enacted.

In the paper titled “A Defense of Abortion” Judith Thomson uses several premises to bring the readers to the conclusion that Abortion is not morally wrong. After reading her paper I have concluded, that abortion is in fact morally wrong, excluding extenuating circumstances. In this paper I will show that abortion is morally wrong by way of the following argument:

Brooks creates a horrific imagery that abortions are terrible; and in the poem “The Mother “,she mirrors herself to reality to show the missed opportunities of a child, that women who have aborted their children, will miss. In the poem, it pinpoints a woman’s experience of aborting a child, and then feeling guilty about it, as a mother. In contrast to the author of the poem, Gwendolyn Brooks is a woman who has also aborted a child numerous of times, feels relentless. She communicates with her audience, women, through the poem to recap what the unborn children would become in the future such as singers and workers. “You were born, you had body, you died. It is you never giggled or planned or cried.” When Brooks talk about the missed opportunities that women will never see, she refers to a mother with treacherous experiences. Symbolically, she reflects as a role model for all women who have undergone the situation.

Some things are hard to achieve and sometimes they are somewhat wrong, which takes time to get to the main point. In past decades there have been many controversial issues on equal rights and freedoms etc. Abortion rights are one of the issue that has been around since 1800’s. It came to public’s eye after many deaths among women occurred caused by complication and illegal abortion. Decline in birth rates in late 1800’s was also the reason to ban abortion. By the end of 19th century in 1967 abortion was illegal in all U.S. States. It was considered a crime. Still many people were and are against abortion because thinking that abortion is taking away life of baby and is equal to committing murder. Some people are with abortion because

Some things are hard to achieve and sometimes they are somewhat wrong, which takes time to get to the main point. In past decades there have been many controversial issues of equal rights and freedoms etc. Abortion rights issue has been a global political issue.

Warren, Thomson, and Hursthouse would agree that Sister McBride and St Joseph’s Hospital were correct in prescribing and performing the abortion. All three authors have varying views on abortion itself, but all held the common view that if the fetus is killing the mother it can be morally aborted. Warren specifically believes that a fetus is not a person and therefore does not have rights equal to a person, if it has rights at all. This belief allows a mother to undergo an abortion whenever she pleases because she is the only one with rights. Although Thomson agrees with Warren she states that a fetus is a person. She comes to the same conclusion as Warren though, that an abortion can be performed whenever, with a somewhat similar thought

Missouri’s abortion regulations appear to be in line with most national trends regarding the controversial subject Starting in Roe v. Wade (1973), page 370-382, the U.S. Supreme Court, it was established that a Texas law forbidding a woman from getting an abortion except for medical needs was unconstitutional. The court was determining whether or not a woman’s right to privacy was being hindered by the law and the court agreed that it was. Under the Fourteenth Amendment, it was found that a woman had the right to make medical decisions about aborting her pregnancy up until the first trimester. After that, it was in the state’s right to determine the measures deemed appropriate in the second and third trimester as long as each regulation supported

In Casey, the Court based their decision on the principles of institutional integrity and the rule of stare decisis and held the essential holding in Roe to be retained and reaffirmed (“Due Process and Fundamental Rights”). As a result of the holding, “a woman has a right to choose to have an abortion in the period before viability without ‘undue interference from the state” (“Due Process and Fundamental Rights”). Additionally, “the state has an interest in the fetus, which entitles to restrict abortions as long as exceptions exist for pregnancies that endanger a woman’s life or health” (“Due Process and Fundamental Rights”). Furthermore, “the state has an interest in the woman’s health and fetal health” (“Due Process and Fundamental Rights”).

Warren and Thomson might even counter some of my arguments too. They might explain that they might possess the DNA for the next Rockefeller or Gates, but they also might have the potential for the next evil criminal like Hitler and because the child won’t be raised properly the chances are more likely that they turn out evil rather than good. Therefore, by allowing the parents to commit an abortion, society would be safer and crime rate would go down. I also, counter that argument by saying that if this were the case then the police would get to them and if it turns out to be the next Gates society benefits from them anyhow.

The issue of abortion is notoriously controversial. Since the Supreme Court’s 1992 ruling in Casey v. Planned Parenthood, states have enacted different restrictions on the procedure. These restrictions vary from state to state. Nineteen states currently have laws prohibiting partial-birth abortion, and forty-one states strictly prohibit abortions except in cases of life-endangerment. One particularly incendiary area of abortion law is that of public funding. However, as of this year there are only seventeen states that cover abortion procedures through public funding. In this paper we will discuss federal abortion legislation, while describing the laws and political ideologies of the following states: Texas, California, New

In “Kentucky Could Become The Only State Without A Clinic That Performs Abortions”, an article by Sarah McCammon, address the issue of Kentucky’s only abortion clinic is at risk to be terminated. Gov. Bein has attempted to shut down the clinic once before by telling the “clinic that it was failing to meet state health regulations requiring clinics that provide abortions to have transfer agreements with local hospitals and ambulance services in case of medical emergencies.” During the process of the legal action that seemed to come “out of the blue”, the clinic came very close to being forced to close. While speaking Brigitte Amiri, an attorney representing the clinic, she says the “stakes are very high” causing the reader to feel empathy for