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  Abortion
Abortion, in its most common usage, refers to the deliberate early termination of a pregnancy, resulting in the death of the embryo or fetus.
Medically, the term also refers to the early termination of a pregnancy by natural causes ("spontaneous abortion" or miscarriage, which ends 1 in 5 of all pregnancies, usually within the first 13 weeks) or to the cessation of normal growth of a body part or organ.
Very late abortions can be brought about by the controversial intact dilation and extraction (D and X) or a hysterotomy abortion, similar to a caesarian section, and requiring the surgical decompression of the fetus's head before evacuation.
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 Abortion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy associated with the death and expulsion of the embryo or fetus from the womb.
Chemical abortion comprimising 10% of all abortions in the United States and Europe, is a method used to induce abortion by ingesting drugs, usually during the first nine weeks of pregnancy.
Abortion is likely a factor for premature birth, associated with premature rupture of membranes, incorrect position of the fetus on the placenta and spontaneous early labor.
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 Abortion Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An abortion is the premature termination of pregnancy ending in the death of the embryo or fetus.
Induced abortions are sought for a number of reasons, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, there were 1.31 million abortions in the US in 2000, and cases of rape or incest accounted for 1.0% of abortions in 2000.
A person's position on abortion may be best described as a combination of their personal beliefs on the morality of induced abortion, and that person's beliefs on the ethical scope and responsibility of legitimate governmental and legal authority.
popularityguide.com /encyclopedia/Abortion   (3572 words)

  
 LEGALITY OF ABORTION. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to School Term Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Legality of Abortion Abortion must be a legal and attainable procedure for women throughout the United States.
Abortion, to people who that believe a fetus is a citizen, seems as though a human life is being terminated because someone else justifies the cause with reasons of their own.
Legal abortions are in sanitary and government regulated clinics.
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 Mr. Carrier's Opening Statement: Abortion is not Immoral and Should not be Illegal
This means that any discussion about the morality or legality of abortion necessarily entangles us in the morality and legality of the use of the pill and related implants and injections.
The ability of societies to check population growth without legalizing abortion has proven nearly non-existent: there are few countries in which abortion is outlawed or stigmatized that are not suffering harshly from overcrowding, with all the attendant economic, criminal, or political troubles.
And for women who regard zero growth as a moral imperative, abortion can even be a moral necessity from their point of view--although this would be better called a matter of principle, so as to distinguish this personal belief from the morally universal.
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 Free Term Papers on abortion
Abortion is the termination of pregnancy before birth, resulting in, or accompanied by the death of the fetus.
The result of the ruling required abortion to be legal for any woman; regardless of her age and for any reason during the first seven months of pregnancy, and for almost any reason after that.
Abortion advocates sometimes say the fetus is not like other individuals because it is totally dependent on another to survive, but that is true even after it is born.
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 Abortion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Abortion''', in its most common usage, refers to the voluntary or induced termination of pregnancy, generally through the use of surgical procedures or drugs.
Some pro-choice advocates prefer to advance the position that illegalization of abortion will be ineffective; their stance as to the ethics of abortion illegalization is that it would not reduce number of abortion procedures, but only increase the difficulty and decrease the safety of the procedures undergone.
This argument makes the issue one of legislative effectiveness in ethics, assuming that because abortions will be performed in any case, the duty of the state becomes the establishment and maintainance of order in the medical disciplines and the alleviation the suffering of pregnant women who choose to undergo abortion.
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 Why Abortion Is Wrong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Abortion is the subject of a great deal of heated, emotionally charged debate, and discussions on the topic seem often to be heavily laden with rhetoric and emotionally persuasive but logically flawed arguments.
The question of the morality and legality of abortion is an issue that affects us on very personal levels, and also deeply as a society, as a reflection on our attitude toward the value of human life.
The only situation in which abortion is morally acceptable is when the life of the mother is in danger; it is better that one (the baby) should die than that both the mother and baby should die.
www.mit.edu /people/hilstad/society/abortion   (879 words)

  
 Articles - Abortion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Medical abortion is a method used to induce abortion during the first trimester.
Medical abortion is accomplished by administering either methotrexate or mifepristone (RU-486) followed by administration of misoprostol.
In Ireland abortion is strongly opposed by a majority of the electorate and is illegal.
www.gaple.com /articles/Abortion   (3313 words)

  
 Burnt Orange Report - My Moral Dilemma on Abortion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Morally, I would say probably, politically I would tend to say no. And politics is what we are dealing with here (as you say, the immoral is often legal), so in that instance choice should be our policy.
A woman in the UK recently had late-term abortion because her child would have been born with a cleft palate It was illegal because the deformity is not serious enough and would have been fixable.
The moral rationale for this abominable practice was that the fate of the infant was in the hands of the gods.
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Abortion has been legal in France since the passage of the Veil Act in 1975.
Illegal abortion rates remained fairly high during the post-war period, and increasing numbers of women began to travel to the United Kingdom to procure abortions after it legalized abortion in 1967.
France legalized abortion in 1975, available on demand until the tenth week of pregnancy on condition that they undergo counselling on alternatives and observe a one-week waiting period.
en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Abortion_in_France   (182 words)

  
 Genetic interests, life histories, and attitudes towards abortion.
It is hypothesized that divergent interests in and views on the availability of abortion services are driven by zero sum competitions both between more-promiscuous and less-promiscuous reproductive strategies and between strategies that are more or less likely to limit family size in order to increase resources for children.
Exploratory regression analyses are presented showing that demographic and life-history predictors that are consistent with an interest-based perspective account for a meaningful percentage of the variance in abortion attitudes in two adult samples and a large percentage of the variance in abortion attitudes in an undergraduate sample.
Additional analyses are reported calling into question views that abortion attitudes are derived from more-basic views on fetal personhood and views that political and moral attitudes generally are derived in part from more-basic positions along a single liberal-conservative ideological dimension.
repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI3087480   (214 words)

  
 AntiEssays.com : : Abortion - Legality and Morality
While this decision made an attempt at establishing a legal precedent, from a moral and religious standpoint, it is wrong.
Upon the moment of conception, the human embryo is a person; and as a result, ensoulment of the fetus occurs simultaneously, making it\'s abortion an act at odds with moral rectitude, and a sin within the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Therefore, the abortion of a pregnancy, at any point, is murder, is morally wrong, and is a sin within the teachings of the Catholic Church.
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 Legality doesn't equal morality when it comes to abortion
Allowing a clinic to perform abortions in State College is a victory for no one.
From what I understand, the effects of abortion are pretty terrible on the mother, never mind the baby.
The woman has to realize that what she is doing is not only going to affect her, but it will also have a profound effect on the life of the baby she carries in her womb.
www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1997/08/08-05-97tdc/08-05-97d07-002.htm   (767 words)

  
 Anti Essays : Free Essays on Legality of Abortion Essay
Below is a free essay on "Legality of Abortion" from Anti Essays, your source for online free essays, free research papers, and free term papers.
Abortion must be a legal and attainable procedure for women throughout the United States.
Bonnie Steinbock, an author who considers herself an expert on fetuses and their legal rights, says, "Conception is the joining of the male and female sex cells which have twenty-three chromosomes each." The process of conception takes twelve hours, at which time the egg is completely fertilized and becomes known as a zygote.
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 CBHD: Republicans and Abortion - Francis J. Beckwith
What is typically and incorrectly referred to by the media as the "abortion plank" is the section of the platform which calls for a constitutional amendment to protect all human life regardless of venue or level of maturity.
For once Ms Padberg asserts that it is legally obligatory for our government to exclude certain small, vulnerable, defenseless, and dependent human beings from protection for no other reason than because someone considers their destruction vital to that person's well-being, then it is difficult to know on what moral grounds Ms.
Disagreement over such a plank would not be over the morality or legality of abortion; it would be over the question of whether the unborn are members of the human community.
www.cbhd.org /resources/reproductive/beckwith_2000-07-13.htm   (934 words)

  
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Important facts about abortion are also researched by sociologists and historians.
Abortion has existed in most societies, although it has often been opposed by institutionalized governments and religions.
In the 20th century abortion became legally accepted in most of Europe and in the United States (Even though in some countries, such as Germany and Spain, abortion is technically illegal—even in the first trimester—prosecution typically does not occur.) Additionally, abortion is legal and accepted in China, India and other populous countries.
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 CFFCusapage2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Catholic women have abortions at the same rate as women in the population as a whole.
Catholics have abortions at a rate 29% higher than Protestants, even after standardizing for age and excluding nonwhites and Hispanics (who have higher abortion rates).
In addition, when women were asked why they were having an abortion, Catholics were 8% more likely than those of other religious beliefs to say that they did not want others to find out about their sexual activity or pregnancy.
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This organization would push for continued efforts to reform healthcare; would promote more research into diseases such as HIV infection (possibly by pressing for full funding of the Ryan White Act) and breast cancer; and would seek to promote active enforcement of such legislation as the Americans with Disabilities Act.
these are debatable issues...) Please Note: This organization *would not* take a stand on the question the morality or legality of abortion itself, except to say that, as a procedure, abortion is not a particularly appealing option, and that avoidance of the need to have an abortion is preferable to having to make a choice.
Based on advice from several legal sources, the consensus seems to be to remove this plank at this time, in favor of potentially raising a research effort aimed at rationalizing the taxation of religious institutions and members of religious orders.
www.qrd.org /qrd/orgs/contacts/american.values.network   (704 words)

  
 morality - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 Stolen Fetus Suspect Arraigned
Whether this was a theft or a kidnapping depends on whether a human was abducted or a mass of lifeless tissue was stolen.
As in the Scott Peterson case, the pro-abortion will wisely not get in the middle, even though a ruling that this was a human being could again put the morality and legality of abortion before the courts.
Those that see abortion as a necessary evil are doomed to dance around what is and what is not a living child.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1305438/posts   (1451 words)

  
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Marquis' argument for that "abortion is prima facie seriously morally wrong" (467)
--rejecting infanticide: newborns have interests, thus have moral status.
significant demands on the mother, abortion is "almost always morally permissible" (471)
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 Dorothy Day Would Turn Over in Her Grave by Stephen Hand, Traditional Catholic Reflections & Reports, Catholic News & ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Signers of this ad hold a range of views on the morality and legality of abortion, but we all seek to reduce its frequency.
The insensitivity and arrogance on the abortion issue among those people I met, and their apparent contempt for the Holy Father and Church when these were brought up, was disconcerting to say the least.
We must love the sinner, radically, but reject the moral disorders which threaten to engulf the world in morbidity and horror.
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 Trimester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the United States on a federal level, this is tantamount to asking, "Should Roe v.
Wade continue to be supported?" As of November 5, 2003, United States President George W. Bush signed into law the "Partial-birth Abortion Ban Act" which makes it illegal for anyone to perform the procedure.
However, some abortion practitioners represented by the ACLU have already filed a lawsuit protes
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He was known for his strong opposition to abortion, which went against the pro-choice politics of his party.
It was this stance that led to his leaving the Liberal Democrat Party in the House of Lords.
See also Morality and legality of abortion Pro-Life
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 Of morality and legality - Culture - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Of morality and legality - Culture - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
And those people selected quotes that they believed would be wedge quotes that they'll target toward specific voting groups that they felt were important.
I didn't see anything from the [Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee] on the issue of abortion, not one thing.
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