Medical Ethics- Abortion
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- Created on: 20-05-15 23:00
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- Abortion
- Abortion is the removal of the foetus before it can survive outside the womb - viable.
- Has been legal in the UK since 1967
- You must go to a clinic to access abortion.
- A woman can have an abortion up to 24 week into pregnancy.
- Procedure- A pill for early abortion or vacuumed for later abortions.
- Prochoice
- If the woman becomes pregnant when young she should not be forced to pay for her mistake.
- Life does not really start until birth, or at the earliest until the fotus is viable. The woman is a person and so has more rights than what some might refer to as a blob of cells.
- The woman's circumstances need to be considered. For example a **** victim should not constantly be reminded of their ordeal, they should not have to care or give birth to an unwanted child/
- The risk to the mothers life/health outweighs that of the baby.
- Adoption is not an easy option when a woman has carried a baby for 9 months and given birth to it.
- Prolife
- Abortion is murder because life starts at conception.
- Only God can take life away. Abortions mess with Gods plan.
- Each person is unique and no one knows how valuable that child's life might be. An abortion might deprive the world of someone who is truly great in some capacity
- Quality of life is important so it would be cruel to bring a mentally handicapped child into the world.
- Children are a blessing and should be cherish not destroyed. God knows people before the are even born.
- Roman Catholics
- Abortion is completely wrong, the only time it would even be remotely acceptable is the result of an operation to save the mother.
- It is a grave moral evil.
- Equal to murder
- Must be protected from the point of conception.
- Church of England
- It is a necessary evil, only to be used as a last resort.
- The life of the foetus is classified as non-sacrosanct if it endangers the mothers life.
- Liberal laws have caused the increase in abortions.
- Abortion is the removal of the foetus before it can survive outside the womb - viable.
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