Abortion
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- Abortion is the deliberate termination of a pregnancy and is legal up to 24 weeks in Britain.
- Abortion
- Why is abortion common?
- Sex - pleasure Vs procreation.
- Women have a greater social and legal status.
- Low child mortality has reduced the need for so many children.
- Foetal abnormalities can be detected.
- Religious Views.
- Christianity
- Abortion intentionally destroys a foetus in the womb - biblical texts provide a framework for prohibiting abortion.
- Jeremiah 1:5 - 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.'
- Exodus 20:13 - 'You shall not murder'.
- Luke 12:7 'Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.'
- Exodus 20:13 - 'You shall not murder'.
- 1 Corinthians 3:17 - 'If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for God's temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.'
- Life is sacred.
- Sanctity of Life.
- Life is sacred.
- Imago Dei.
- Genesis 1:27 - 'So God created mankind in his own image.'
- Imago Dei.
- HOWEVER - There is no specific text that prohibits abortion.
- Luke 12:7 'Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.'
- Luke 12:7 'Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.'
- The 10 Commandments.
- 'Thou shall not kill.'
- Considered a grave sin, intrinsically evil, and condemned by the RCC as it goes against Natural Law and the Law of God.
- Human life beings at conception and therefore abortion at any stage is murder.
- Humans do not have authority over the taking of life as God is the life-creator and giver.
- Doctrine of the Double Effect.
- The idea that even if a good act results in bad consequences, then it is still right to do that act.
- The RCC and more Liberal Churches may use this in cases of in which the mother would be severely harmed.
- Ectopic Pregnancy - The fallopian tube is removed causing the embryo, thus saving the mother.
- Remove fallopian tube.
- Foetus dies. (second 'bad' effect)
- Mothers life is saved. (first 'good effect)
- Remove fallopian tube.
- Ectopic Pregnancy - The fallopian tube is removed causing the embryo, thus saving the mother.
- The RCC and more Liberal Churches may use this in cases of in which the mother would be severely harmed.
- Slippery slope argument?
- Situation Ethics.
- Great Command - Love God and Love thy neighbour as yourself. - Agape
- Some may use the principles of Christian love and argue that the most loving thing to do always depends on the situation that a person is in.
- Joseph Fletcher.
- Some may use the principles of Christian love and argue that the most loving thing to do always depends on the situation that a person is in.
- Great Command - Love God and Love thy neighbour as yourself. - Agape
- Situation Ethics.
- The idea that even if a good act results in bad consequences, then it is still right to do that act.
- Deontological and Absolutist approach.
- May face excommunication from the Roman Catholic Truth
- Situation Ethics.
- Great Command - Love God and Love thy neighbour as yourself. - Agape
- Some may use the principles of Christian love and argue that the most loving thing to do always depends on the situation that a person is in.
- Joseph Fletcher.
- Some may use the principles of Christian love and argue that the most loving thing to do always depends on the situation that a person is in.
- Great Command - Love God and Love thy neighbour as yourself. - Agape
- Abortion intentionally destroys a foetus in the womb - biblical texts provide a framework for prohibiting abortion.
- Christianity
- Ethical Issues in the legislation about abortion.
- Mary Anne Warren argues that women should have the right to abort unwanted pregnancies, because if the state was to prohibit abortions undesirable consequences would follow E.G. Backstreet abortions.
- World Health Organisation - Unsafe abortions kill 200,000 women each year.
- If the foetus is given equal rights then, in principle, a court could force a woman to go through a dangerous birth rather than abort, because her life would be considered to be no more valuable than that of the foetus.
- Legislation - Abortion
Act 1967
- 'The pregnancy has not exceeded its twenty-fourth week.'
- 'The termination of the pregnancy is necessary to prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman.'
- 'The continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman.'
- 'There is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped.' '
- Legislation - Abortion
Act 1967
- Illegal abortions would claim lives - basic women's rights would be lost, as control over the reproductive and process is essential if women are to experience basic rights to life, liberty and self-determination.
- Mary Anne Warren argues that women should have the right to abort unwanted pregnancies, because if the state was to prohibit abortions undesirable consequences would follow E.G. Backstreet abortions.
- World Health Organisation - Unsafe abortions kill 200,000 women each year.
- If the foetus is given equal rights then, in principle, a court could force a woman to go through a dangerous birth rather than abort, because her life would be considered to be no more valuable than that of the foetus.
- Legislation - Abortion
Act 1967
- 'The pregnancy has not exceeded its twenty-fourth week.'
- 'The termination of the pregnancy is necessary to prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman.'
- 'The continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman.'
- 'There is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped.' '
- Legislation - Abortion
Act 1967
- Mary Anne Warren argues that women should have the right to abort unwanted pregnancies, because if the state was to prohibit abortions undesirable consequences would follow E.G. Backstreet abortions.
- Conscience of the medical practitioner; doctors may refuse to carry out abortions on grounds of conscientious objection.
- Mary Anne Warren argues that women should have the right to abort unwanted pregnancies, because if the state was to prohibit abortions undesirable consequences would follow E.G. Backstreet abortions.
- When does human life begin?
- Biological Debates
- Birth
- The status of personhood is only applied at actual physical birth, the first true point of independence and individuality.
- Dee Wells.
- The status of personhood is only applied at actual physical birth, the first true point of independence and individuality.
- Viability
- The time in which the unborn child can exist beyond any dependence on the mother.
- Potentiality
- Primitive streak - The 14th day of the development of the foetus - spinal chord.
- Conception
- From the point of fertilisation of the egg the resulting product being a human being.
- Judith Jarvis Thompson - 'There is a continuous growth from acorn to oak tree, but an acorn is not an oak tree; just as a fertilised ovum - a newly implanted clump of cells - is not a person.'
- From the point of fertilisation of the egg the resulting product being a human being.
- Birth
- Religious and Philosophical Debates
- Consciousness
- The state of being awake, aware of, or sensitive to ones surroundings.
- Ensoulment
- The status of personhood is deemed appropriate when the soul enters the body.
- Continuity
- Life must being when the potential life as an individual entity is recognisable, which is the zygote at conception.
- Consciousness
- Personhood - The stage at which a being is considered to be an individual human being with human rights.
- Biological Debates
- Why is abortion common?
- Why is abortion common?
- Sex - pleasure Vs procreation.
- Women have a greater social and legal status.
- Low child mortality has reduced the need for so many children.
- Foetal abnormalities can be detected.
- Health data 2006 - 193,77 abortions in England and Wales.
- Abortion
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