Emergency Contraception For Women 's Reproductive Rights

Thus the U.S. government which was a target of violence and criticism before this critical decision has fallen prey to many activist and religious group’s outrages. The upstart of many women’s clinics has also fueled this criticism. Fore, it seems like nowadays that every couple miles or so you can find a women’s clinic and because of this there has been a growing concern that abortion is just becoming a fundamental part of a women‘s life. Thus, a larger more violent, more powerful, more determined group was bound to be established. This group is the Army of God.

This article brings up the debate of weather a healthcare professional has the right to object contraceptives and should not involve themselves in medical practices they have moral qualms with, or give patients the access to all legal treatment no matter what that health professional’s moral qualms should be. This debate questions the balance of doctor-patient

Pro-Choice” was solved with the guidance of the provisions stipulated in the Duty-based ethics or the Deontological theory. In this case, the nurses should remember and respect the autonomy of the patient in the decision- making process. In addition, nurses should encourage their patients to choose the decision that had a disadvantage over the other choices and to remember their primary motivation or goals that should be met. Furthermore, it must be kept in mind that the duties and obligations of a nurse is primarily to provide the patients with care and to prevent them to come to any harm and that to never treat human beings for the purpose of others or as a means to an end (Parker, 2007; Aroskar, 1998). With this intention, Pro-choice have an upper hand over Pro-life based on the study conducted by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention. However, it must be known that not all patients would want to employ the artificial birth-control methods especially because some of these such as abortion were critically tagged as immoral by society’s norms and the Catholic Church. Consequently, the absolute choice boils down to the patients and their preferences and nurses should not impose to the former the decision that they should make. Because, after all, in view of the Deontological theory, the righteousness and morality of an action can only be determined through its primary motivation (Taft,

Access to emergency contraception has been heavily debated issue, because there has to be a balance between protecting healthcare providers’ religious and moral beliefs on one hand, and providing a uniform standard of care and maintaining patients’ rights on the other. This principle gives a significant approach to the analysis of ethical questions arising from the general obligation to preserve human life, and the limits of that obligation.

The restrictions and the debate that surrounds the issue of abortion has changed dramatically throughout the course of history and it continues to change until this very moment. All around the world and in every known society, women have used abortion to control their reproduction, regardless of it’s legality. Abortion used to be exercised freely in the United Sates, up Until all the states started to ban It and place a lot of restrictions on it. They stated that a woman can not abort except in extreme cases in which the mother’s life might be in danger. After the restrictions caused a lot of health issues and raised concerns on women’s health, The Government abolished all the restrictions. In this paper I will analyze and discuss three main positions on the issue of abortion. First, there are those who associate themselves with the title “pro-life”. These individuals are anti abortion, birth control, embryo research or anything that can control or cause any harm to the fetus. Second, there are those who at the other end of the spectrum who firmly believe that if a woman decides to abort, then it is her constitutional right to do so without any interference from the government. Third, are those who believe that if a woman is raped or her life is in danger, then abortion should be completely and solely up to the woman, but other than that, abortion should be illegal. This group of individuals are also for birth control and do not oppose educating

The issue of birth control remains one of the most controversial issues within the Catholic Church dividing members at all levels including the clergy. The Roman Catholic Church for the past 2000 years has been a major opponent of artificial birth control (BBC). Pope Paul VI made a clear declaration on the use of birth control when he wrote ‘the Encyclical Letter ‘Human Vitae’ on July 25, 1968 which banned Catholics from using contraceptives (Pope VI). These important declarations demonstrate the power of the Papacy to shape public policy on matters relating to human health and reproduction on a global level. The belief within the Catholic Church is that God have the sole power over the creation of life and humans have no role in this

In addition, abortion is a major topic in America. Some people believe it is a woman’s right to decide on whether or not they want the pregnancy, and some believe that no matter what the view is it is considered murder. However, by placing emergency contraceptives on the shelf, as Nucatola states, this will ultimately lower the abortion rate. Let’s face it, everyone is human and everyone makes mistake, if doctors and pharmacist are able to come up with a solution to end unwanted pregnancies without performing abortion, would people be for it or against it? Unfortunately, although a solution was found, emergency

In the United States, per year, twenty million unsafe abortions and sixty-eight thousand deaths from them occur, (Odyssey) while the average death risk for a safe abortion is less than .01 percent. An illegal and unsafe abortion should never result as the last resort, but it tends to because of a lack of access to safe ones. Morals, usually drawn from religious beliefs, tend to play a part in one’s opinion towards abortion. More than three fourths of Americans consider themselves as Christians. This means that more than three fourths of Americans believe that it is morally wrong to undergo an abortion and a person should not hold the right to take someone else’s life away. While a moral belief, based on religion, is something all people are free to have,

1. In the early 1960s during times of revolution, rape, rampage, and chaos in certain areas of the world, the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy supplied its nuns with birth control pills. The reasoning was that, although the church opposed use of the Pill, the risk of rape and resultant pregnancy was so great as to override religious objections to the Pill. This justification illustrates what sort of ethical system?

Plan B or the ‘morning after pill’ as it is sometimes known is an emergency contraceptive that is can prevent a pregnancy if it is taken within 3 days of unprotected sex or if your birth control failed you such as if a condom breaks mid intercourse. The Plan B contain a higher concentrated level of levonorgestrel which is the same hormone found in birth control pills. According to the Plan B website, when taken as directed, the Plan B helps to prevent almost 7 out of 8 potential pregnancies. Currently, the morning after pill is available over the counter to women and young

This week marks the forty-sixth anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae, a document which clarified the Church’s moral teaching on contraception. What is contraception? Contraception is, “any action which either before, at the moment of, or after sexual intercourse, is specifically intended to prevent procreation whether as an end or as a means” (Humanae Vitae 14). There are various methods of contraception that temporarily or permanently sterilize a couple, thus making it impossible to have children. Contraception destroys the union and love between couples. In this we find that contraception violates God’s plan of procreation. Contraceptives go against the gift of fertility by treating pregnancy as a disease. The issue of contraception has drawn worldwide attention with people divided on whether it is morally permissible to use any form of contraception. Society views contraception as a development in the modern world that helps in the regulation of birth. We find that many Catholics don’t understand this issue and the Church’s teaching on contraception has been misunderstood. The Church makes it clear through Humane Vitae that any use of contraception is morally wrong, for it violates the dignity of marriage and God’s plan of procreation. It is our understanding that marriage is a sacrament of love between two people, instituted by God, for the whole purpose of continuing his plan of creation. Marriage is the foundation of

The films that was shown on the class reveal the gender problems, especially the unfair treatment received by women. Due to lots of reasons, women’s rights are restricted in different level. In The Pill, the right of the women to choose give birth to a baby or not conflicts to the right of the creature that is inside of her uterus. The religion power affects women’s right on controlling their bodies because some people regard an embryo as a life. The Hunting Ground and The Invisible War reflect the conflicts between the justice of women victims and reputation as well as financial interest of the institution.

All over the nation, teenaged girls are becoming sexually active. This leads to the high usage of the morning after pill, also known as the emergency contraceptive. Throughout the U.S. there’s been a debate on what age women or teen girls should be in order to purchase this form of contraceptive. In some states, the minimum age to buy the pill is 17 but some people believe there should be a lowering of that age or to sell the pills on the shelves for anyone to buy instead. The emergency contraceptive pill should be available for teen girls under the age of 17; however, not everyone believes that it should be lowered or sold to women at all. If the age for the plan B pill reduced then it will help reduce the percentage of pregnant teens. Also

Humana vitae announces the fact that if contraceptives are continued to be used society will be negatively affected. Four trends that Paul VI foreshadows in a society with widespread use of contraceptives include “a general lowering of moral standards throughout society; a rise in infidelity; a lessening of respect for women by men; and the coercive use of reproductive technologies by governments” (II). The way in which Paul VI astutely deducts these future trends is based in the Church’s understanding of love, morality, sex, and God’s design. Through such deduction Paul VI accurately foretells of the harms that have plagued the world since the induction of contraceptives. As Mary Eberstadt points out the evidence that contraceptives and the sexual revolution have greatly impacted all areas of life including family, children, opposite sex relationships, personal flourishing (II, III). Other areas that have been impacted by contraceptives and reflect Paul VI’s prophetic words include heightened and harsh feminism, arguing between the lesser of two evils (overpopulation or birth control), giving rise to the modern gay-rights movement, and governmental control of citizens’ reproduction rights, (III-V). Eberstadt argues the same point as this paper, that Paul VI’s words in Humana vitae were in fact prophetic because all the consequences and more which he stated are effecting society and show that while the Pill “was supposed to erase all consequences of sex once and for all, turned out to have huge consequences of its own” (Eberstadt,

Thesis: I will discuss why contraception and not only Natural Family Planning should be allowed by the Catholic Church because it helps prevents sexually transmitted infections and diseases and prevents millions of unwanted children from being born and then abandoned every year.