What is ‘legal consciousness’? How can a consideration of ‘legal consciousness’ assist in analyzing the relationship between law, society and individuals? Draw on contemporary and historical examples to illustrate your discussion.

Chemerinsky, E., & Goodwin, M. (2017). Abortion: A Woman’s Private Choice. Texas Law Review, 95(6), 1189-1247. https://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=4&sid=058f

In this essay I will analyze James Rachel’s Smith and Jones case for active and passive euthanasia. I will additionally give an ethical reasoning for why I either agreed or disagreed with his opinion. I will furthermore show how he lures our attention to the dissimilarities amongst his view of killing and allowing someone to die. I will also refine my propositions and reaction of this case in the issue of active and passive euthanasia. Defending Rachel’s case I will argue why I sided with him for his moral argument.

Abortion’s legalization through Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade, has allowed for one in three pregnancies to end in abortion. This means that 1.5 million abortions are performed in the United States each year (Flanders 3). It ranks among the most complex and controversial issues, arousing heated legal, political, and ethical debates. The modern debate over abortion is a conflict of competing moral ideas and of fundamental human rights: to life, to privacy, to control over one's own body. Trying to come to a compromise has proven that it one cannot please all of the people on each side of the debate.

The movement from voluntary to involuntary euthanasia is an issue of the way laws can expand once something is declared legal, take abortion as an example, from ‘only for the life or health of the mother’ to becoming an ‘abortion on demand,’ the law has change dramatically, the same system with euthanasia as soon as the door is opened to making it legal.

Abortion has been a complex social issue in the United States ever since restrictive abortion laws began to appear in the 1820s. By 1965, abortions had been outlawed in the U.S., although they continued illegally; about one million abortions per year were estimated to have occurred in the 1960s. (Krannich 366) Ultimately, in the 1973 Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade, it was ruled that women had the right to privacy and could make an individual choice on whether or not to have an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy. (Yishai 213)

(2) Tamanaha, Brian. 2008. “Law”, Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-0095. Link in Course Readings and Available online: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1082436&rec=1&srcabs=1012051

“Abortion: Roe v. Wade” American Decades. Ed. Judith S. Baughman, et al. Vol 8: 1970-1979.

Pollitt, Katha. (2014). Abortion: No More Apologies. Nation, 299(19), 12-17. Retrieved on February 26, 2017 from EBSCOhost

Ever since the case of Roe v. Wade in 1973, abortion has been one of the most contentious issues in our society. In some cases people think abortion is murder, in others, it’s reasonable for some cases. Then there are people who use it just to take advantage of it. The legal stance of abortion is a hot topic in today’s society.

Leslie R. Reagan a professor of history, medicine, and women’s studies at the University of Illinois, brings attention and helps articulate the myth, that if abortion is made illegal then we could end all abortions. Reagan traced the history of abortion in her book, and reminds individuals that the law is not fixed, but, rather fluid. She mentions that in the early history of abortion, abortions were widely accepted and done in homes and offices of physicians and midwives. During the 1930’s this begin to shift and abortions were often done, in hospitals and clinics rather than homes and offices. However, in the 1940s, the acceptance of abortion began to decline and new methods and ways of controlling abortion were put into place. She mentions that, “As authorities prosecuted abortion with the same urgency as communism, prosecutors and the police systematically raided abortion clinics, publicly interrogated women who had sought abortions, and humiliated both clients and abortion providers in the courtroom” (Joffe, et al., 2000). When abortion become

Barron, S.L. “Abortion and Health.”121-138. Abortion and Sterilization. Ed. Jane E. Hodgson. New York: Academic Press, 1981. Print.

The morality of induced abortion is one of the most controversial moral issues of our time. Abortion has grown to be one, if no the most, debated argument of modern times. In the following web-page, we will be discussing abortion in three of its major aspects: Public Opinion, Congress and Courts, and Interest groups.

Cockrill, K., & Weitz, T.A. (2010, January-February). Abortion Patients' Perceptions of Abortion Regulation. Women's Health Issues, 20(1), 12-19.

The tenth charter of “The Impact of Law on Society”, Lippmann explains the topic of abortion during the past eighteenth century. Quickening was then clarified with acceptable under the English common law, as laws in American colonies and states forced criminal accountability towards the actions of pregnant women. Lippman continued with the acceptance of Abortion at the views of others, as the decision in Pre-Roe v. Wade had an impact of increased numbers in the 1970-1973. Same-sex marriage than began to become the center of attention with states began to recognize the next step towards. Social changes began to arise with the choices of individuals, as Lippman shares the opinions expanded towards the view of same-sex marriage.

Masalah pembuangan bayi dan pengguguran bayi merupakan jenayah dan masalah sosial yang semakin menghiasi dada akbar dan hangat diperkatakan. Masalah ini juga sering dipaparkan oleh media massa media cetak ataupun media elektronik. Hal ini menggemparkan masyarakat di Malaysia. Masalah ini boleh dihubungkaitkan dengan pegangan agama yang rapuh, keruntuhan akhlak dan keruntuhan institusi keluarga dalam