Essays 91 - 120
providing women with more civil, political and social rights, the traditions of patriarchy and male control of reproduction still ...
situations where lying is attached to a greater good, no one can predict the future. The premise is therefore sound as a maxim. In...
involves a critical evaluation of values and desires, and to act in accordance with them after careful reflection. Valuing a pers...
was accepted as a method for achieving this goal (Beals, 2002, p. 24). During this era, the majority of women seeking abortions we...
This research paper describes a documentary, "The Last Abortion Clinic," which aired on PBS's Frontline in 2005. Eight pages in le...
second myth is that "thousands of women died annually" from botched abortions. No so: "In fact, the U.S. Centers for Disease Contr...
that school. He points out that the insight that Aristotle provides in "On the Soul" and "On the Generation of Animals" serves as...
placed in jeopardy by the pregnancy, (by a fetus that is incompatible with life), is the only reason that that pregnancy can be te...
society, leading to their religious viewpoint forming the basis of social morality. However, there is also something of a gre...
to privacy within the Constitution (Supreme Court Cases 1965-1990, 2005). As such the court "inferred the existence of a zone of ...
dockets was in 1843. It was even guessed in the early 1900s one out of four pregnancies were terminated through abortion. So giv...
stand up to scrutiny. The question as to whether or not Americans are better served by the conservative stance in terms of person...
abortions were categorized as being either therapeutic (legal) or criminal (Aries, 2003). Therapeutic abortions were only cases i...
and many of them were permanently damaged physically as well as emotionally. Some even died from the unsafe conditions of illegal ...
cases when a womans health is put in jeopardy by having a child at all. Forcing a woman to bring the child to term would be no les...
27). However, even in late pregnancy, she argues that the emotional well-being of the pregnant women outweighs the value of the fe...
what necessarily constitutes morality for another. In light of this the government has no ultimate control over an individuals own...
month of pregnancy a fetus is fully formed and looks like an infant although it is tiny. It is obviously a living creature and obv...
the fetus is alive and growing and therefore taking it out of the mothers womb kills it. If it is living, then ending that life is...
should be considered before deciding or not deciding on having an abortion. For this particular discussion, let us consider...
U.S. 173 (1991)), the ACLU filed a brief of amici curiae in conjunction with the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists,...
"undue burden" on the woman who desires an abortion (CNN, 2000). The state of Nebraska was attempting to outlaw partial birth abor...
Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v DHSS (1981) with reference to the Abortion Act 1967 (Lexis, 2003). This makes abo...
she actually never had an abortion, and years later wishes her name were not on the court decision and wishes that abortion were n...
then do total strangers intrude into this womans life to force their beliefs on her? I do think that anti-abortionists ferventl...
privacy within the Constitution (Supreme Court Cases 1965-1990, 2005). As such the court primarily inferred that the Constitution...
tell her partner she was getting and abortion. That has been the legal situation since. Men have no legal rights in relationship t...
occult meaty tumors that terrify - I see as blood, disease, phlegm, and so on... I am used to seeing" (Selzer, 2005, p. 636). He ...
"That government is best which governs least....For government is an expedient by which men would...
suggests that there is a need to consider the biblical foundations noted, including Old and New Testament support for Christian ed...