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Topic: abortion

I think that abortion is a very thought provoking and controversial issue where there is no right or wrong, and where both sides raise significant arguments. It is an issue that concerns not only Christians but also all people worldwide. I personally, think that the person who should have the greatest say in such a situation is the pregnant woman. She is the person that would be affected the most either way and should have the choice of an abortion, should she want one. She should also not be forced to have an abortion against her will and should not be refused an abortion if she asks for it. I think that abortion should not be misused or used for the wrong reasons as this shows complete disregard for human life and could be interpreted by some, as equivalent to murder.
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Christians believe by the phrase ‘Sanctity of life’ that all life is special to God. They believe that life should not be treated badly or discarded thoughtlessly. Each human being is a separate, living person, with many rights, mainly the right to life. Christian’s beliefs about God as creator include the belief that all human beings are created as individuals. Every individual is unique, and there is no life like any other in the universe. Human beings have a special place in God’s eyes and in God’s creation.
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There are many arguments in favour of abortion. Some people believe that the woman should have the right to choose what happens to her body. If the mother doesn’t want the baby then it will be brought into the world unwanted, which is wrong. Unwanted children may suffer rejection, abuse and would cause a lot of problems. Money might also be a problem. If the family can’t afford the baby, having it could lead them to poverty and the child would have to be taken into care.
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If the mother didn’t want the baby surely they could spare its life and have it adopted by loving parents who would want it. Many couples today are unable to have children, so instead of having a lab-made baby wouldn’t it be easy for them to have a natural one. But adoption is not always an easy option. Sometimes when the mother opts for this she finds it hard to let the baby go. Also the new parents might not be that happy because the baby isn’t really theirs. Although it doesn’t really matter about blood relations, it might matter to some people. Another problem would be when the child was older. They might want to find their real parents and might end up hating the adopted parents for not telling them.
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When God ordained the Ten Commandments, life was very different. Even though abortion, euthanasia and capital punishment existed, life’s value was less. Children died young and people could be struck down other bight by illness. Many times children were ‘disposed of’ when they were the wrong sex or disabled. People were used to death, life was cheaper. Nowadays, technologies in the western world mean that most people do not experience death, except that of elderly relatives. We are used to our children surviving into adulthood.
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The Roman Catholic Church holds the biggest objection to all forms of contraception and abortion. The church teaches that abortion denies the biggest right of human beings- the right to exist! The destroying of a foetus means murder. Any catholic involved in an abortion, whether mother or medical practise may be excommunicated from the church and its sacraments. The church also doesn’t believe in sex before marriage. They believe marriage is to bring people together to have children. So if married women got pregnant she would have no need to have an abortion.
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Other churches like the Methodists and the Anglicans believe that life does not begin until the baby is able to survive outside the womb. These Christians believe that abortion is an evil, which should be best avoided. An abortion could take place if it meant even greater evils were avoided by the abortion. An abortion can take place if the mother’s life was at all in any risk mentally or physically, if she was likely to give birth to a handicapped child or if the pregnancy was due to a rape.
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In the bible we read, ï¿½Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish and the sea, the birds of the air, over the livestock, over the world and all the over creatures that move along the ground ï¿½. The teaching of the Catholic Church is expressed in the declaration on procured abortion (1974) in this the church points out that respect for human life is not just a Christian duty.
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Abortion is an operation carried out to remove the growing foetus from its Mothers womb so that it can be destroyed. In the UK abortion has been legal since 1967, when the law about abortion was passed in parliament. The abortion act said that a person should not be guilty of the unlawful ending of a pregnancy if: The operation is carried out by a registered doctor and in a registered hospital. There must be two registered doctors who both agree that by carrying on with the pregnancy there would be a risk to the physical or mental health of the Mother. Or that the foetus may be born with a serious physical or mental handicap. Doctors are able to take into account her reasonable foreseeable environment so social factors can be involved in the medical decision. In 1990 another law was passed called the Human Fertilization and embryology act. The act says abortion is acceptable if the pregnancy is no longer than 24 weeks. The pregnancy involves the risks to the mental or physical health of the pregnant women or any existing children of the family.
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There are many points against abortion, these are: The unborn child is a separate human being. It is never just part of a Mothers body. By letting women have abortions, society is taking the easy way out. We should create a society were no child is unwanted. A foetus has a right not to be killed. People with the most serious handicaps can still lead a happy life. A foetus is a potential human being; one day it could be a person.
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ï¿½A grave violation of the law of Godï¿½. The churches concern is to bring the light and the life of Christ to everyone who needs it. It clearly teaches that those whose lives are diminished or weakened in anyway should be treated with special care. In particular, the sick, the handicapped, the elderly should be helped to live as normal life as possible. Whatever its motives, euthanasia does mean putting a premature ends of lives of such people. In any civilised society it is morally unacceptable to even contemplate the possibility. The four reasons this is unacceptable are:
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Two doctors had to agree about it and it must be carried out in registered premises. And these would only be relevant if the mother’s life, health or mental health would be at risk, her existing family would suffer or if the child will be handicapped. This allowed abortions up to 28 weeks. In 1990 the time deadline was changed to 24 weeks, because with modern technology a 28 week born baby may be able to survive out of the womb.
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You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because you are to be feared; all you do is strange and wonderful. I know it with all my heart. When my bones were being formed, carefully put together in my mother’s womb, when I was growing in there secret, you knew that I was there- you saw me before I was born. The days allotted to me had all been recorded in your book, before any of them ever began.
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Catholic teachings from 1930 state that ‘human beings are made in the image of God’ therefore abortion is breaking the commandment ‘Love the Lord your God’. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognised as having the rights of a person- among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.” In the Pope’s new encyclical he says, “the killing of innocent human creatures, even if carried out to help others, constitutes an absolutely unacceptable act.” The Pope is emphasising that no that no commandment, other than ‘love your god’, is more important than this.
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The Roman Catholic Church tries to educate all Catholics that sex should only happen inside marriage and for procreation, to create a stable family life. But also stresses that abortion is the murder of an innocent child, and breaks the rules of the Church and is punished by excommunication. Because of this they’ve got schemes which help to financially support mothers, supplying them with clothes an equipment for the baby. The first of these schemes was set up in March 1997 in Scotland, and was modelled on similar schemes run by SPUC. These financial incentives are offered to mothers to try and persuade them to keep their unborn child.
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These teaching have been interpreted by these two denominations similarly, but with some differences. They both agree that abortion is an evil according to the bible, but whereas Roman Catholics can never see it as the best option in any circumstance, the C of E recognises that it can be the lesser of two evils in some circumstances. However the biggest difference in the two interpretations is that while the C of E encourages compassion and support to a mother who has had an abortion, the Roman Catholics have one simple answer- excommunication!
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If a Christian concerned is a Roman Catholic then in my opinion they could never justify an abortion. This is because of the way that they interpret the teachings in the bible that I have looked at in sections ‘A’ and ‘B’. They see it as the murder of an innocent child and it is unacceptable for all cases in all circumstances. They even want the law to be changed so it reduces the number of abortions, and abortion to be recognised as murder. They also campaign for all sexual intercourse to happen inside marriage, and that sex should be for the procreation of children.
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However under the ‘doctrine of double effect’ a Roman Catholic may allow something that would kill the foetus, if the intention of it was to do something else. This is the idea of doing an action for one effect, knowing that it will produce another effect, but not being responsible for the second effect. An example of this is removing cancerous tumour from the womb of a pregnant woman, knowing that this will kill the foetus, but it would not be an abortion, because the intention was to remove the tumour. This is probably one of the only times that a Catholic may justify an abortion, although they may not see it as an abortion.
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In my opinion if the Christian concerned was a Church of England Christian then there would certainly be times when they could justify an abortion. Although they would never see it as good, it could be justified in some occasions. It is seen as a sad and tragic fact of life, which should be minimised as much as possible. In the C of E’s view abortion could be justified after rape, to enable the victim to recover, when the foetus is severely damaged, because its prospects are immense suffering and usually an early death, or if the mother’s life is in danger. Here abortion is justified under ‘the lesser of two evils’. Meaning that it’s not a good thing to kill the foetus, which may not even be alive, but it is better than killing the mother, who is definitely alive.
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However, they’d definitely think that abortion was unacceptable late on in the pregnancy, or when the child could be born and adopted. There are also many other circumstances that are allowed by British law today, especially abortions for social reasons. They would like to see a change to society and the law to prevent late abortions and ‘social’ abortions. They would also like to see better sex education that emphasises responsibility and includes information about contraception. Therefore the overall number of abortions would be reduced, and less (potential) lives would be wasted.
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Other Christian denominations are more liberal in their justification of abortions, for example Methodists. They still don’t see abortion as a good thing, but in my opinion they could justify more cases of abortion. They see abortion as undesirable, but necessary in many cases as it can prevent unnecessary suffering. This suffering could be prevented in many cases when there would be hardship or stress to the mother or family. This takes into account if the child will be able to be supported and provided for or not, and if the mother already has lots of children, whether she would be able to physically and mentally cope with another child, or if the other children would be able to handle another child. Abortions could be justified taking into account “offensive social conditions of bad housing and family poverty”. Also they would justify abortions for all the reasons that the C of E would justify abortions, e.g. after rape or when the mother’s life is at risk etc. They believe firmly that the mother is more important than the foetus. In their opinion the foetus is a potential human, but the mother is the real human, so her rights must be given priority if there is a conflict between the mother and foetus. It is seen here also as the lesser of two evils.
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Never the less, Methodists strongly emphasise the need to support women in their choices about reproduction and pregnancy. They emphasise God’s forgiveness. Some Methodists have abortions themselves. They would like to see good contraceptive advice, more chances for women to decide what to do about unplanned pregnancies and more support for women who choose to have an abortion. As far as the current British law is concerned, they are pretty happy with it at the moment. They feel that if abortion was made illegal again, there would be one law for the rich and another one for the poor. While the rich would be able to afford to go abroad to have an abortion, there would be the return of back-street abortions, with increased risk of ill health and death, which would be the biggest waste of life, one or potentially two human lives would be wasted.
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It has been said that a foetus is not a human being; it is merely part of the woman. Whereas, medical science has proved that the foetus is biologically separate from its mother. From the moment the embryo is formed a new individual comes into existence, genetically different from its parents. The development of vitro fertilisation has proven that an embryo can exist outside a female body. All these scientific advances confirm that the unborn is a separate human being. The terms ’embryoï¿½, ‘foetusï¿½, ‘babyï¿½, ‘childï¿½ and ‘adultï¿½ are just different words for a human being at different stages of life. Given the right necessities, a foetus has the potential to grow into an adult.
Topic: abortion

I believe that many of the reasons for having abortions are totally unacceptable. For example, there have been reports that some pregnancies were terminated because parents decided that their child was the ‘wrongï¿½ sex. I think that too many women do not look hard enough to find the possible solutions of the problems that arise with pregnancies. Parents must take more responsibility as the situation has only arisen because of the parentsï¿½ negligence whilst having sex. In my opinion, if a woman does not feel she is ready to bring up a child, the best option is to put the child up for adoption, as there are thousands of people who are desperate to foster or adopt children. I also believe that it is right to terminate the life of one or more foetuses involved in a multiple pregnancy to preserve the life of other foetuses. Finally, I think that although doctors should consult other doctors, they should not be prosecuted for carrying out an abortion in extreme circumstances. For example, in 1938, Dr Alexander Bourne performed an abortion on a 14-year-old girl after a gang of soldiers raped her. Dr Bourne informed the police and was prosecuted.
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In an address to doctors visiting Rome for Holy Year celebrations, the Pope told them they had an unshakable mission to defend life from its natural start to its natural end. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that life begins at the moment of conception and ends at the moment of natural death. The Church defends the rights of Roman Catholic doctors, even those working in public institutions, to claim conscientious objection to abortion or euthanasia and not be party to them.
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Linked to abortion is euthanasia, which also involves the taking of life and is illegal in this country. It is still taking away a life, no matter the reason, and is therefore neglecting God’s teachings. Voluntary euthanasia is where the patient and no one else makes the decision to die. It is different from suicide as the person is generally incapable of killing him or herself and will therefore ask someone else to help them die. Under our laws today, however if someone commits euthanasia by helping someone to die they can be sentenced to prison.
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In Roman times, abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was permissible, but as out civilization has aged, it seems that such acts were no longer acceptable by rational human beings, so that in 1948, Canada along with most other nations in the world signed a declaration of the United Nations promising every human being the right to life. The World Medical Association meeting in Geneve at the same time, stated that the utmost respect for human life was to be from the moment of conception.
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This declaration was re-affirmed when the World Medical Association met in Oslo in 1970. Should we go backwards in our concern for the life of an individual human being? The unborn human is still a human life and not all the wishful thinking of those advocating repeal of abortion laws, can alter this. Those of us who would seek to protect the human who is still to small to cry aloud for it’s own protection, have been accused of having a 19th Century approach to life in the last third of the 20th Century.
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A new human being who carries genes in its cells that make that human being uniquely different from any and other human being and yet, undeniably a member, as we all are, of the great human family. All the fetus needs to grow into a babe, a child, an old man, is time, nutrition and a suitable environment. It is determined at that very moment of conception whether the baby will be a boy or a girl; which of his parents he will look like; what blood type he will have. His whole heritage is forever fixed. Look at a human being 8 weeks after conception and you, yes every person here who can tell the difference between a man and a women, will be able to look at the fetus and tell me whether it is a baby boy or a girl. No, a fetus is not just another part of a women’s body like an appendix or appendage. These appendages, these perfectly formed tiny feel belong to a 10 week developed baby, not to his or her mother. The fetus is distinct and different and has it’s own heart beat.
Topic: abortion

Do you know that the fetus’ heart started beating just 18 days after a new life was created, beating before the mother even knew she was pregnant? By 3 months of pregnancy the developing baby is just small enough to be help in the palm of a man’s hand but look closely at this 3 month old fetus. All his organs are formed and all his systems working. He swims, he grasps a pointer, he moves freely, he excretes urine. If you inject a sweet solution into the water around him, he will swallaw because he likes the taste. Inject a bitter solution and he will quit swallowing because he does not like the taste. By 16 weeks it is obvious to all, except those who have eyes but deliberately do not see, that this is a young human being. Who chooses life or death for this little one because abortion is the taking of a human life? This fact is undeniable; however much of the members of the Women’s Liberation Movement, the new Feminists, Dr. Henry Morgentaler or the Canadian Medical Association President feel about it, does not alter the fact of the matter. An incontrovertible fact that cannot change as feelings change. If abortion is undeniably the taking of human life and yet sincere misguided people feel that it should be just a personal matter between a women and the doctor, there seems to be 2 choices open to them. (1) That they would believe that other acts of destruction of human beings such as infanticide and homicide should be of no concern of society and therefore, eliminate them from the criminal code. This I cannot believe is the thinking of the majority, although the tendency for doctors to respect the selfish desire of parents and not treat the newborn defective with a necessary lifesaving measure, is becoming increasingly more common. (2) But for the most part the only conclusion available to us is that those pressing for repeal of the abortion laws believe that there are different sorts of human beings and that by some arbitrary standard, they can place different values on the lives of there human beings. Of course, different human beings have different values to each of us as individuals: my mother means more to me than she does to you. But the right to life of all human beings is undeniable. I do not think this is negotiable. It is easy to be concerned with the welfare of those we know and love, while regarding everybody else as less important and somehow, less real. Most people would rather have heard of the death of thousands in the Honduras flooding disaster than of a serious accident involving a close friends or favourite relatives. That is why some are less disturbed by the slaughter of thousands of unborn children than by the personal problems of a pregnant women across the street. To rationalize this double standard, they pretend to themselves that the unborn child is a less valuable human life because it has no active social relationships and can therefore, be disposed of by others who have an arbitrary standard of their own for the value of a human life.
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I agree that the fetus has not developed it’s full potential as a human being: but neither have any of us. Nor will any of us have reached that point: that point of perfect humaness, when we die. Because some of us may be less far along the path than others, does not give them the right to kill us. But those in favour of abortion, assume that they have that right, the standard being arbitrary. To say that a 10 week fetus has less value that a baby, means also that one must consider a baby of less value than a child, a young adult of less value than an old man. Surely one cannot believe this and still be civilized and human. A society that does not protect its individual members is on the lowest scale of civilized society. One of the measures of a more highly civilized society, is its attitude towards its weaker members. If the poor, the sick, the handicapped, the mentally ill, the helpless are not protected, the society is not as advanced as in a society where they are protected. The more mature the society is, the more there is respect for the dignity and rights of all human beings. The function of the laws of the society, is to protect and provide for all members so that no individual or group of individuals can be victimized by another individual group. Every member of Canadian society has a vital stake in what value system is adopted towards its weak, aged, cripple, it’s helpless intra-uterine members; a vital stake in who chooses life or death. As some of you may know, in 1969, the abortion laws were changed in Canada, so that it became legal for a doctor to perform an abortion if a committee of 3 other doctors in an eccredited hospital deemed that continuation of the pregnancy constituted a severe threat to the life and health, mental or physical of the women.
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Threat to health was not defined and so it is variously interpreted to mean very real medical disease to anything that interferes with even social or economic well being, so that any unwanted or unplanned pregnancy thus qualifies. What really is the truth about the lasting effect of an unwanted pregnancy on the psyche of a womem? Of course there is a difference of opinion among psychiatrists, but if unbiased, prospective studies are examined certain facts become obvious. (1) The health of women who are mentally ill before they become pregnant, is not improved by an abortion. In fact in 1970 an official statement of the World Health Organization said, “Serious mental disorders arise more often in women previous mental problems. Thus the very women for whom legal abortion is considered justified on psychiatric grounds, are the ones who have the highest risk of post-abortion psychiatric disorders. (2) Most women who are mentally healthy before unwanted pregnancy, despite a temporary emotional upset during the early weeks for the pregnancy, are mentally healthy after the pregnancy whether they were aborted or carried through to term. Do we accept killing a human being because of a temporary, emotional upset? All obstetricians and gynaecologists know of many cases where the mother, be her single or married, has spoken of abortion early in the pregnancy and later on, has confessed her gratitude to those who have not performed the abortion. On the other hand, we have all seen women what have been troubled, consumed with guilt and development significant psychiatric problems following and because of abortion. I quote Ft. John L. Grady, Medical Examiner for Florida State Attorney’s Office, “I believe it can be stated with certainty that abortion causes more deep-seated guilt, depression and mental illness than it ever cures”. We used to hear a lot about the risk of suicide among those who threatened such action if their request for abortion was refused. How real is that risk – it is not – in fact, the suicide rate among pregnant women be they happy of unhappy about the pregnancy, is 1/4 of the rate among non-pregnant women in child-bearing years. An accurate 10 year study was done in England on unwed mothers who requested abortions and were refused. It was found that the suicide rate of this group was less than that average population.
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In Minnesota in a 15 year period, there were only 14 maternal suicides. 11 occurred after delivery. None were illegitimately pregnant. All were psychotic. In contrast, among the first 8 deaths of women aborted under the liberal law in the United Kingdon, 2 were from suicide directly following the abortion. Are there any medical indications for abortion?? Is it valid for a doctor to co-operate in the choice for abortion? The late Dr. Guttmacher, one of the world leaders of the pro-abortion movement, has stated: “Almost any women can be brought through pregnancy alive unless she suffers from cancer or leukemia, in which case abortion is unlikely to prolong her life much less save it.” As an opponent to abortion, I will readily agree, as will all those who are against abortion, that pregnancy resulting from rape or incest is a tragedy. Rape is a detestable crime, but no sane reasoning can place the slightest blame on the unborn child it might produce. Incest is, if that is possible, even worse, but for centuries, traditional Jewish law has clearly stated, that if a father sins against his daughter (incest) that does not justify a second crime – the abortion of the product of that sin. The act of rape or incest is the major emotional physical trauma to the young girl or women. Should we compound the psychic scar already inflicted on the mother by her having the guilt of destroying a living being which was at least half her own? Throughout history, pregnant women who for one crime or another were sentenced to death, were given a stay of execution until after the delivery of the child: it being the contention of courts that one could not punish the innocent child for the crime of the mother. Can we punish it for a crime against the mother? If rape occurred the victim should immediately report the incident. If this is done, early reporting of the crime will provide greater opportunity for apprehension and conviction of the rapist, for treatment of venereal disease and prevention of pregnancy. Let is give our children good sex education; and let us get tough on pornography, clean up the newstands, literature and “Adult Movies” and television programmes which encourage crime, abusive drugs and make mockery of morality and good behaviour and therefore, contribute to rape. By some peculiar trick of adult logic, proponents of abortion talk about fetal indications for act. Whatever abortion may do for the mother, it so very obviously cannot be therapeutic for the fetus. Death is hardly a constructive therapy. As Dr. Hellegers of John Hopkins Hospital says, “While it is easy to feel that abortion is being performed for the sake of the fetus, honesty requires us to recognize that we perform it for adults”. There is no evidence to indicate that an infant with congenital or birth defect would rather not be born since he cannot be consulted.
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This evidence might exist if suicides were common among people with congenital handicaps. However, to the contrary, these seem to value life, since the incidence of suicide is less than that of the general population. Can we choose death for another while life is all we ourselves know? Methods are being developed to diagnose certain defects in the infants of mothers at risk before the infant is born. The fluid around the fetus can be sampled and tested in a very complicated fashion. If we kill infants with confidential defects before they are born, why not after birth, why not any human being we declare defective? It is no surprise of course for many of us to learn that in hospitals across North American Continent such decisions affecting the newborn and the very elderly or those with incurable disease, are being made. What is a defect, what is a congenital defect? Hitler considered being 1/4 Jewish was a congenital defect incompatible with the right to life. Perhaps you have all heard this story : One doctor saying to another doctor, “About the termination of a pregnancy, I want your opinion. The father was syphilitic (venereal disease). The mother tuberculous (small lumps on skin). Of the four children born, the first was blind, the second died, the third was deaf and dumb, the fourth also tuberculous. What would you have done?” “I would have ended the pregnancy”. “Then you would have murdered Beethoven”. Not content with the Abortion Act of 1969 which allows 40,000 unborn children to be killed legally in our country in 1973, many noisy and emotional people are campaigning for abortion on request. They are aided by a crusading, misguided press and media which continues to utter as fact, the fiction of fertile imaginative minds. We have been told by the media that the majority of Canadians wish to have abortion legalized but the latest census taken by the Toronto Star in March of 1989 reports that 35% of those polled thought that abortion was already easy to obtain, 26% thought it too hard, 19% about right and 21% had no opinion. Men more then women thought it too hard. Even if the majority did want it, this does not make it right. Centuries ago, most Americans thought slavery was right. The elected leaders of this country must have the wisdom and integrity for what is right, not for what might be politically opportune.
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One of the uttered justifications for abortion on demand is that every women should have the mastership of her own body, but should she? To quote Dr. Edwin Connow, “Should she have the right for what is really judicial execution of new life – not a cat, not a chicken but a human being – not only potential but actual”. In a society one is not totally free to do what one will with one’s own body (we don’t have the right to get drunk or high on drugs and drive down Young Street.) The great concern has been shown for the innocent victims of highjacking but what is abortion but this? The highjacking without reprieve, of an innocent passenger out of his mother’s womb. Should we really leave the right to hijack as a personal decision only? Those campaigning for further liberalization of the abortion law, hope to make abortion available and safe for all who wish it during a pregnancy. Qualifications have been placed on the abortion on demand routine by other groups, for example, a time limit for the duration of pregnancy or clause that the operation be performed in an accredited hospital. Before exploring the reality of so-called safe abortion, let me tell you a little method of procuring an abortion. Before 13 weeks of pregnancy, the neck of the womb is dilated – a comparatively easy procedure in someone who has already had a child – much more difficult if childbirth has not occurred. The products of conception in many hospitals are removed but a suction apparatus – considered safe and better that the curettal scraping method. After 13 weeks pregnancy, the fetus is too big to be removed in this was and either a dangerous method of injection a solution into the womb is carried out, this salting out method results in the mother going into what is really a miniature labour and after a period of time, expelling a very dead often skinned baby. In some hospitals because of the danger of this procedure to the mother, an operation like a miniature Caesarean section called a hysterotomy has to be performed. There area also many other methods. Let us now look if we can, at consequences of such license to kill an individual too small to cry for it’s own protection. Abortion by suction curettage is not just as simple as a pelvic examination performed in a doctor’s office as Dr. Morgentaler and the television programe W5 who were doing a great disservice to young women in Canada would have us believe. In Canada as reported in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (the Statistics from Statistics Canada), the complication rate and this being for immediate complications of early abortion is 4.5%. According to the Wyn report with statistics from 12 counties, women who have a previous induced abortion have their ability to bear children in the future permanently impaired. There is a 5-10% increase in infertility.
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It has been suggested that abortions on request would enable the poor to secure abortion as easily as the rich but regrettably, it has been shown that abortion-minded physicians in great demand will respond to the age-old commercial rules, as has already happened in the States and in Britain. Abortion on demand a women’s right to choose not to continue an unplanned pregnancy would prevent there being unwanted children in this country, so we are told. This is the final and desperate emotional plea of people anxious, at whatever price, to escape the responsibility for their actions. Nobody here or in Canada, wants there to be unwanted children in this city, and in this country, and also in this world. There is nothing more pitiable or heat rending that an unwanted fetus becoming an unwanted babe or an unwanted babe becoming an unwanted child, or an unwanted child becoming an embittered adult. But few would think it right to kill or have killed an unwanted baby to prevent it from becoming an unwanted child. Then how can they think it right to kill an unwanted fetus, even more defenceless than a newborn babe just because it may grow into an unwanted child. Once a women has conceived, she already is a parent, be it willing or otherwise. The only way she ceases it be a parents is by a natural death or an act of killing. Killing in any form is not the solution to so-called unwanted human beings at any age. Hitler thought this was right. Canadians surely do not. It is a permissive and frightened society that does not develop the expertise to control population, civil disorder, crime, poverty, even its own sexuality but yet would mount an uncontrolled, repeat uncontrolled, destructive attack on the defenceless, very beginnings of life. Let us marshall all our resources financial, educational, those of social agencies, but above all, of human concern and passion for our fellow humans. Let us by all means, make available to all, knowledge of conception and methods of contraception. Let us offer ourselves as loving humans to those already in this country who are unwanted by their natural parents. And incidentally, I am sure I don not need acquaint you with some of the facts about so-called unwanted children. The Children’s Aid Societies in Toronto and in fact in every major city across our country have many more potential parents anxious and willing to adopt infants and young children than they have such children available for adoption. Let us marshall our technology and humanity in the service of the unfortunate. And in conclusion, I would like to read to you a letter which a member of Birthright received. Dear Birthright: I heard about your work in Birthright and think you can help us. We’re in our late 20’s and have been married 7 years.
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After 3 years of waiting, we became the happy adoptive parents of a precious baby girl last fall. This is how you can help us. Please tell every unwed mother who places her baby for adoption how much we love her. We think each of those girls are the most generous, charitable, kind devoted and loving mothers on this earth. We know she must have carried her child out of love or in this day and age should have found some way to have an abortion. We can never thank her enough for the 9 months of time and energy she spent for us. Maybe if she knows that we think she’s the most loving person in this world we will never know, it will help us both. As Jenny grows older, we are telling her she has two sets of parents. We’ll tell her how she came to be our child this way. Her first mommy didn’t have a home or a daddy to help love and care for her. She loved her so much that she just couldn’t let her daughter grow up without love of two parents and all the things that make a happy home. We’ll tell Jenny that her 1st mommy thinks of her often and wonders how she is. She will always love her baby. Maybe our thoughts will someday reach Jenny’s 1st mommy. What she did was an act of faith in mankind, hope for her daughter’s future and love toward us. We think the strength of her love enabled her to place her precious baby with us. We have faith that as Jenny grows up learning she was placed out of love and not abandoned by her 1st mommy, both Jenny and she will be at peace. Thank you.
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Annually, the hospitals are always meet a many woman go to hospital to abort because they don’t want to infant was born because they’re studying in the school or college, some reasons we don’t know. It’s affect health’s woman. That’s why many hospital had a statistic about abortion to find a new resolution to reduce a rate of abortion in the United States. In the 1973, the events Roe v. Wade made a increase abortion in that time.
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Scientists picked 2 number minus and divided for distance of year, so they’re can know about the percent or the abortion increase or decrease during a time. The events of Roe v. Wade made a marker a happened in the U.S because the pregnant protected from the government. After 1980s, the rate of abortion was decrease, maybe, the woman or students had to study about sex education so people can know how they protect themselves are? Thanks to doctor teach about sex education so people understood about the harmful abort infant.
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France where is the country with many beautiful place, beautiful architect like Louvre, Notre Dame Cathedral and the Eiffel Tower. Nowadays, we know about the population France is 66.6 millions of people. People want know how much growth of in instantaneous. So people use an instantaneous rate of change for finding a result in during a time. Instantaneous used for describing a motivate something in during have define a time. Instantaneous apply for finding instantaneous around a time like instantaneous acceleration, physics, or marginal cost, profit.
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Why people use instantaneous rate of change? Because it help people know the number is instantaneous and people have a long goal to develop or improve something. It help people are knowledge they’re need to improve not good about they’re doing. Like in China, government had use instantaneous rate of change to find the rate of gender between male and female. China’s fertility rate is declining due to the one-child policy. Based on that, the Chinese government encourages people to have more children and they will reward them. That’s example people use instantaneous rate of change in the life.
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I will use the information to find the growth of a change in the 1946, I will choose other close a point in the 1946, so I can find an instantaneous rate of growth. We can know about the population in that time will 500, 000 of people. So it makes the data of people correct even the number of people are big. To sum up, instantaneous average of change applied in population make lots of beneficial for the government also citizens easily catch up the information to have the ways to control and solve the problem when the country have population exceeded the allowed level.
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Abortion in Mississippi is legal as long as it is performed before 20 weeks of pregnancy. Like other states, restrictive laws to abortion rights have been increasing forcing many residents to move out of state to get the procedure done. There was a 13% increase in the abortion rate in Mississippi between 2014 and 2017, from 3.8 to 4.3 abortions per 1, 000 women of reproductive age. Abortions in Mississippi represent 0.3% of all abortions in the United States (Jones RK, Witwer E and Jerman J, 2019).
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Prohibition of use of telemedicine to administer medication abortion. In case a public employee gets pregnant through rape and incest or faces a fetal anomaly, the abortion procedure will be covered by the insurance. Prohibition of using safe, effective and commonly used method of second-trimester. Using dilation and evacuation are permitted only in cases of life endangerment or severely compromised physical health of the patient. The state has set out requirements which relate to the physical space, equipment and staff at the facilities.
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As discussed earlier, the abortion debate seems to be pro-life vs pro-choice. Deeper research into the debate shows that people’s opinions are more complex than this and mostly deviate from either of the aforementioned ideologies. The dichotomy sprung right after the Roe v. Wade decision and this has been the viewpoint taken by researchers and public polls. The research conducted has always been around gender, race/ethnicity, political views, and religion.
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According to (Jelen and Wilcox, 2003), African Americans/ Blacks were more supportive of legal abortion compared to Whites in research done between 1989 and 1993. In the case of different races obtaining an abortion, Hispanics had a higher likelihood to undergo abortion compared to non-Hispanic white women but less likely than the African American counterparts (Henshaw & Kost, 1996). Political views and religion were covered earlier.
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When people are given different scenarios, circumstances, and asked whether they think a woman should have access to safe, legal abortion, the complexities emerge. According to a national survey by General Social Survey (GSS) on seven specific scenarios, 61.8% said that women could have abortion under some circumstances and not others, 31% said they should have abortion under all circumstances and 7.2% said, the women should not have an abortion under any of the circumstances (Smith and Son, 2012). The circumstances mentioned include a defect in the baby, marital status, woman’s life at risk, socio-economic difficulties and rape.
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The treaties and policies touch on many topics within abortion including legal grounds for abortion, gestation limitations, the right to information, medical abortions and criminality. The abortion laws have been categorized as what is prohibited altogether, to save a woman’s life, to preserve health, broad social or economic grounds and on request. With such a framework, the reproductive rights of a woman play a major role as societies deepen their understanding and role of politics and policies in their day to day lives. Legalizing abortion reveals the need for education and information in matters of sexuality. Thus participation of women and girls is key in its advocacy.
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The rise in the abortion rate as seen in the U.S is an indirect indicator that women have gained power. An unwanted pregnancy no longer stops a woman from pursuing her education or career. Most of all, she has control of her sexuality and identity. The medical practitioners are also winners in this debate as they have a major influence on abortion decisions. ‘The abortion debate is, and always has been, defined by the changing connections between the issue and other social and cultural divides in the American social fabric. It is in the end, a surprisingly empty vessel into which movements, politicians, and regular Americans have poured their anxieties and concerns.'(Ziad Munson). More research should be done to identify perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors of people towards the abortion debate. The constructed dichotomous approach should break down to let other viewpoints be incorporated or allowed to spring up.
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Since the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged the constitutional right to abortion in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, abortion issues have surfaced in every election both locally and statewide. Abortion is not a priority but it certainly has helped shape policies and attitudes in the U.S political landscape. In 2017, approximately 862, 320 abortions occurred in the United States. The resulting abortion rate of 13.5 abortions per 1, 000 women of reproductive age (1544) represents an 8% decrease from the 2014 rate of 14.6 (Jones RK et al). In 2017, the abortion incidence in Mississippi shows that 2, 550 abortions were provided to state residents.
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Until the 19th Century, abortion was permissible before the second trimester. Drugs and medication to induce miscarriage were sold and advertised to women, though some proved to be fatal. In the late 1850s, the newly established American Medical Association started a campaign to criminalize abortion in a bid to remove native doctors and homeopaths. This campaign took effect and eventually, the Catholic Church banned abortion in 1865. This move set precedent in abortion being outlawed in most parts of the country.
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Prior events leading up to the Roe v. Wade decision, included women’s rights movement and issues around contraception in the 1960s. With the decision, the court divided the pregnancy into three parts. In the first trimester, the woman had a right to terminate the pregnancy. In the second trimester, in order to protect the woman’s health, the government could regulate abortion though they could not rule out the possibility to end the pregnancy. In the last trimester, the state could prohibit abortion to protect a fetus that could survive on its own outside the womb, except when a woman’s health was in danger. Though the ruling still holds, many restrictive laws have been imposed in the past years thus crippling abortion rights. This has been fueled by what Ziad Munson calls ‘ the making of the abortion controversy.’
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‘The U.S. Pro-Life Movement underscores the important way that religion’s impact on pro-life protest is not limited to being a source of motivational beliefs. The Catholic Church as a formal organization played a key role in facilitating the mobilization of the movement.’ (Ziad Munson). From the above, it is clear that the pro-life movement merges two distinct perspectives on abortion, the religious perspective, and the moral perspective. The church is against abortion under any circumstance. Life is considered sacred and abortion ends this life thus the idea is wholly rejected. (Raquel Lopez, p. 513).