‘Brenda suffered terribly; no hormones were able to make her feel like a girl, for some time she urinated through a hole surgeons had placed in the abdomen. It was clear that she identified herself as male as she declared that when she grew up she would marry a woman, not a man. Besides a traumatizing childhood, her visits to Dr. Money were also highly traumatizing and tiring because she was supposed to visit him regularly. He would often show her and her brother pictures of people having sex and also forced them to take off their clothes and examine each other’s genitals (however these claims might…
The article, The Case For Late Term Abortions written by Jim Buie was appeared in Newsweek on June 17, 2009. In the article the author uses personal experiences, political and social/legal issues to support his stance on legal late term abortions. He begins his article by mentioning the murder of Dr. George Tiller a late term abortion doctor and his brother Jon who was mentally challenged.…
In order to write this report accordingly, three internet sources and one book source have been used.…
In the article You Don't Need To be Religious To Believe Abortion Is Wrong, Timothy Jackson insists that aside to the faith, logical moral reasons prove beyond doubt that abortion is wrong. Jackson presented a syllogism to sum up all the main points to why. First step is the genuine moral senses which human beings hold. Allowing people to recognize what should be protected. The second step is the pro-lifers are backing up their claim by using resources from science.…
Jone Johnson Lewis is a minister, web writer, and teacher who has researched women’s history around the world. Lewis, in addition to writing for About.com since 1999, has taught on the topic of women in religious history as an adjunct faculty member of Meadville/Lombard Theological School. Lewis has a B.A. in Management from Mundelein College's Women in Business program where she developed a special interest in studying the history of women in the world's religions and in social reforms particularly. It was then when she wrote about “Abortion.” According to Lewis, almost four decades ago, when abortion was illegal, thousands of women died because they did not want to bear an infant and attempted to terminate the child's life by themselves or…
The statement "defense of abortion", gives us an another view to a problem of abortion. Mostly, Judith Jarvis Thompson protects pro-choice side, and she says that abortion is not immoral, and that it is logically correct action. However there are a lot of anti-abortion philosophers who are not agree with it. So Judith Thompson gives an arguments to proof her sides correctness. She says that mother has all rights to do anything with her body and things in her body. Judith Jarvis Thompson also believes that fetuses are not persons, and killing them is not immoral. However she says that there are also situations, when abortion is incorrect. Also she gave 3 main thought experiments to get another point of view to abortion.…
Yet another idea, from Joshua Lang (date 06/12/13) is that the children whose mothers are denied abortions, and the women who were denied abortion are worse off than those who were allowed abortions. Women who had to carry unwanted pregnancies had more negative outcomes with physical health and economic stability, such as their higher rates of hypertension, which is unusually high blood pressure and chronic pelvic pain, after the birth. Those women were also three times as likely to end up in poverty two years later, than women who had gotten the abortion they had wanted. Even though most of the women grow to love the child they had originally not wanted, five percent still feel that they would have rather had gone through with the abortion. A very complex and ongoing study has found no correlation between having symptoms of anxiety and depression, and with having an abortion, but those who did not get abortions did show more signs of anxiety over the next few months after being turned away by abortion centers. The children born from unwanted pregnancies had definite disadvantages. They were all slightly overweight, had lower grades with bad social skills, were less popular among other classmates and teachers, and even sometimes, their own mothers.…
As the story begins, two significant males in her life: her husband and brother, deem the narrator nervously depressed and hysterical. “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency – what is one to do?” (Gilman, 35) Additionally, something important to note from this quotation is that the narrator immediately feels helpless in the situation. This is why she is susceptible to the type of cruel treatment that she will undergo in the story. This sort of helplessness is a comment on societal norms at the time. This story was first published in 1892 when woman’s rights weren’t honored but it was the popular topic of conversation.…
When women get pregnant and don’t want the baby, most people think about abortion as their first choice and don’t even think about the unborn fetus. Every baby deserves to live, with or without the biological parents. Abortion happens everywhere throughout the world. Unsafe abortions result in 70,000 maternal deaths and 5 million hospital admissions per year.…
A pastor in Tennessee who is outspoken about his opposition to abortion is fighting back after receiving thousands of “thank you” letters for donations to abortion giant Planned Parenthood which were made in his name.…
In a medium sized room, large, plasma televisions are posted on every wall displaying HD photos of babies that all appear to be absolutely perfect. With eager anticipation, a young couple glares at the large screens in the waiting room as they wait to see their fertility doctor. With a contagious smile flashed across her face, the doctor’s assistant calls for the anxious couple, “Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, the doctor is now ready to see you!” The couple jumps up in excitement and follows the petite assistant into the doctor's office. The doctor greets them with handshakes and then they are handed a “Create your own Child” form with the dangers printed in fine print at the bottom of the sheet; the couple then begins to request the physical features they desire their future bundle of joy to possess.…
Dine, Ranana. “Scarlet Letters: Getting the History of Abortion and Contraception Right.” 13 August 2013. Americanprogress.org…
One of the biggest moral issue today is woman's rights with abortion. Many people argued for the rights to keep abortion while others argued for banning it. In the article "The Rights of a Woman Do Not Outweigh the Rights of A Child" by Judith Jarvis Thomson, who is a philosopher and invented an analogy for her debate, talks about how a child has more right than the mother in the case of abortion and that abortion is the same thing as "killing" , Thomson says. Thomson claims the idea that anyone can argue that all abortion is impermissible. The article "Abortions Should Be Restricted to Before Twenty Weeks Gestation" by Douglas Johnson who is…
The term late-term abortions has been used so much without the people knowing the real meaning of the word. The fact that people use this term so much makes them ignorant. The term has come up recently because of the presidential candidates. Donald Trump implies late-term abortions trying to use pathos to scare the society. The fact that he never explained what the term actually means makes the situation idiotic. Late term abortions occur at a late stage of a pregnancy when the life of the mother is threatened. The government is thinking about outlawing late term abortions. Outlawing late term abortions is redundant. The burdensome decision should be left to the mother bearing the fetus. It is seen as undermining the stance of what women have fought for;…
“That’s our suspect? That scrawny looking thing?” I asked in disbelief. Nichols was next to me sipping precinct coffee.…