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Ethics in Public Administration
Ethics on Abortion in South Carolina
Ethics in Public Administration
Dr. Esteves
July 22, 2012
Courtney Washington
For a long time, there has been a struggle in accepting whether or not abortion was a right that women had and simply ethical. Since ethics are built off your morals, principles, standards, and sometimes religious beliefs people struggle with the fact of seeing abortion as an ethical decision. This has been an ongoing controversy for the nation and not most importantly the state of South Carolina. In my paper I plan to go in and research on the fact that if we as citizens of South Carolina do approve of abortion being legalized, then why do we have these actions imposed as laws to change the minds of these women who are seeking out these services? Are the lawmakers enforcing or underlying implying these rules to try and make these women who are receiving these services change their mind? Or are they being implemented just as informative information? “Only women know exactly why they end up making the difficult decision to have an abortion. Consequently, there is no better way to help us understand the issue than to listen to their stories. The story of each woman, rich or poor, younger or older, illiterate or highly educated – related here as told to us over the years – is unique and serves to illustrate the variety of circumstances that lead women to choose to terminate their pregnancies.” (Faundes & Barzelatto, 2006) South Carolina is a “hot spot” for many different political arenas in the United States of America, and for the past couple of years reproductive rights have been a major political issue the nation has been trying to tackle, and more importantly a topic South Carolina has been trying to take a lead on. Even though, we have seen much legislation come through the past 2-3 years on reproductive and abortion rights, has South Carolina law makers made any real lead way in trying to better abortion laws and reproductive



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