Category: Abortion
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The Morality of Selective Abortion and Genetic Screening
The continuation of species is a biological function that is present in all humans. Common social norms presuppose the desire to have children is natural and should be encouraged. However, genetic complexity might compromise future offspring’s opportunity to have a satisfying life. If a child is born with a medical condition, such as Huntington’s disease,…
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Women’s Mental Health after Receiving or Being Denied an Abortion: Summary
The belief that women experience negative emotional well-being result of early termination has been the reason for enactment trying to order different approaches to limit admittance to early termination. Biggs et al. (2017) hypothesize that the restrictions on abortion and the denial of abortion lead to adverse mental outcomes for women. The research methodology is…
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Why Abortion Should Be Included in the National Healthcare Plan
The abortion debate is one of the most controversial and irrational issues that have lacked a concrete solution for a very a very long time in America. Although all incoming and outgoing leaders have promised Americans to find a common agreeable solution to this issue, still none of their solutions seems to achieve a common…
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Decriminalizing Abortion for Women’s Health’s Sake
Introduction The debate for and against abortion has caused controversies worldwide, with some groups ruling out the act as heinous while others support the termination of pregnancy only in desperate conditions. Although pro-abortionists base their arguments on women’s rights over their bodies and their autonomy in deciding whether or not to keep a child, there…
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Ethics of Abortion and Over-the-Counter Drugs
The argument for the impermissibility of abortion The widely disputed argument about abortion being wrong has been a subject of heated debates. Still, an agreement between the opponents and the proponents of the position has never been reached. According to the argument made by Don Marquis, abortion is seriously wrong in a moral sense because…
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Abortion: Comparison and Contrast of Arguments
Abortion has been a controversial issue for many decades, with both sides of the argument often feeling very strongly about it. Nevertheless, regardless of the stance one takes on it, most people agree on prioritizing safety of the procedure if it must happen. It can be difficult to ensure safety for the individual undergoing the…
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“Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions” by Finer
High rates of abortion in the United States can be discussed as a challenge. The authors of the article “Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives” aim to answer the question about the reasons causing U.S. women to end a pregnancy while using the advantages of quantitative and qualitative analysis (Finer, Frohwirth, Dauphinee,…
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Policy Debate: Argument in Support of Abortion
The debate over abortion has always been challenging, and it remains such in the light of the recent presidential election in the United States. Abortion is a critical issue in the support of women’s rights because usually women are more affected by the debate than men (both as a gender and individuals). Moreover, pregnancy to…
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The Future of Abortions in the United States
Abortion continues to be a controversial topic within the United States. Despite the supreme court ruling of Roe vs. Wade, which safeguarded abortion nationally in 1973, people are continuing to fight for legal abortions. Historically, opinions on abortion rights in the United States have been divided among party lines, with Democratic and Republican legislators opposing…
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Ethical Aspects of Abortion: A Moral Dilemma
Any termination of pregnancy is called an abortion which has become an increasingly controversial topic as it raises fundamental religious, moral, and other issues. To properly understand the ethical aspects of abortion, it is necessary to realize that pregnancy is both a regular physiological process occurring in a woman and the biological formation of a…