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    Abortion is a legal medical operation which the government cannot control a woman’s private health care decisions. Since abortion was legalized in 1973, nearly 1,500,000 babies have been aborted each year. In the last year there have been attacks on organizations that provide health care services and abortion care or abortion as part of counseling services. Around the country, states have passed laws to defund planned parenthood and to prevent them from participating in public health care programs

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    The Medical Ethics Issue of Abortion Abortion is the deliberate termination of a pregnancy, which typically takes place before twenty-eight weeks. The morality of abortion is what determines it to be a universal medical ethics issue. There are two dominant stances on abortion, which include pro-life and pro-choice. Pro-choice supporters often believe that the decision of abortion should ultimately be a woman’s choice. They argue that personhood begins only when a fetus is able to live on its own

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    Medical Ethical Controversy A recent medical ethical controversy that resurfaces every few years is the debate of abortion. The Roe v. Wade US Supreme Court decision in 1973 made a significant change to abortion laws, giving women the choice to terminate pregnancy without requiring eminent health risks to the mother. (n.d., 2015) The ethical debate of abortion continues even with the practice being legal. The 2016 GOP elections are placing the debate of abortion back in the limelight. (Milligan

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    What is Abortion? The medical definition of abortion is the termination of a pregnancy before the fetus is able to survive outside of the womb. The two forms of abortion happens by way of induction; either medically or surgically. The other form of abortion is spontaneous (miscarriage), which happen for various reason such as infection, malnutrition, substance abuse and the age of the mother. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit public health organization that specializes in research

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    Abortion refers to the medical or surgical termination of a pregnancy. It is argued that a woman has a right over her pregnancy and hence the woman could decide on whether to abort on not. As a result, the woman should not be compelled to give birth when the woman is not able to or does not intend to carry the pregnancy to its full term. For instance, in the United States, women have the right to decide on their destiny regarding pregnancy. It is projected that approximately 14 million chemical

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    on whether abortion should be an accepted and legal medical practice. Those who oppose abortion claim that fetuses are human persons with a right to life which must be protected by law, even at the earliest stages after conception. Those who support a woman’s right to choose whether she will carry an infant to term argue that the mother’s rights to bodily autonomy and to decide whether or not to have a child outweigh any rights a fetus might have. This paper will introduce the abortion rights debate

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    million abortions performed in the U.S., and by the age of 45, 30% of women would have had an abortion. When considering having an abortion, the surgeon must first indicate how many weeks is the patient because there is different procedures for different week stages. Abortion alone is very dangerous, therefore there are many risks that the patient must consider before agreeing to it. First the patient must decide to what type of abortion they want to go with because there is medical abortion and there’s

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    An abortion is the medical process of ending a pregnancy so it does not result in the birth of a baby. It is also sometimes known as a “termination” or a “termination of pregnancy”. Depending on how many weeks you have been pregnant, the pregnancy is ended either by taking medication or by having a surgical procedure. An abortion is not the same as a miscarriage, where the pregnancy ends without medical intervention. “All human life form the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages

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    women think that the future child is going to be in pain so they decide to get abortion. But is malformation a fair reason to not end a life? Or women don't want to face any challenges or struggle they might face with their child in the future? According to Inga-Maj Anderson, Kyllike Christensson, Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson authors of the article “Experiences, Feelings and Thoughts of Women Undergoing Second Trimester Medical Termination of Pregnancy” imply that through a questionnaire they gathered

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    does not begin until birth. The issue of abortion has been the subject of debate for several decades. Religions in Australia have influenced attitudes and laws with regards to this issue in the past. Are the attitudes and involvement of Australian religions in the abortion debate still relevant and do they make a difference? Abortion is a surgical or medical removal of an embryo or a fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy (Dictionary, 2016). Abortion in Australia has always been regulated

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