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Birth is a miracle or so it feels to the willing parents. A tiny infant emerging from the mother's womb, a piece of you, embodying all your hopes and dreams, but what about the unwilling parents? What about the female who has found herself with an unwanted pregnancy? Her options are few motherhood, adoption or abortion. Abortion remains a controversial issue, and depending on where you live, can be illegal.
Since 1988, the Canadian legislation has been silent on the subject of abortion, and in 1991, the court found that legally speaking a fetus is without rights, but the topic continues and protesters harass clinics and hospitals. The possibility of abortion becoming illegal in Canada is very real. More child abuse and family violence may occur. A decrease in women's rights and freedoms may cause an increase in the death rate. That is why the choice for women to have an abortion in a clean and safe environment should remain legal.
Women considering abortion are dealing with a range of problems and are only overwhelmed by criticism. Circumstances and conditions leading to the termination of a pregnancy can vary widely. Whether caused by rape, incest, or age and ignorance, an unwanted pregnancy remains an unwanted pregnancy. Abortion causes a woman to choose between her life or the potential child's. This is always a hard decision to make. It involves a lot of thought, and may cause guilt or regret after the procedure; but dismissing that right to choose would not benefit anyone. Pregnancy can have horrible affects on adolescents causing medical problems, nervous breakdowns and emotional distress. It is said that pregnancies in adolescence involve 4-5 times more risk than those of women in their twenties. In this case, interrupting a pregnancy would be the healthiest, safest decision. There are many other cases where terminating a pregnancy is the best choice. For example, when a medical or mental condition is present, when there is a large family and/or economic problems, if a woman has just given birth, or if she is incapable of assuming any type of responsibility. Yet, no matter what the circumstance, it should be considered valid as long as the woman finds it necessary. Forcing a woman to have a child would cause an increase in child abuse and family violence. Mothers have a natural maternal instinct and desire to produce offspring and nurture it. If you take away that desire, a baby would be raised in a very negative and damaging environment. It is true that a parent could grow to love the unwanted child, but it is more likely that she would not like it for ruining her life. This could lead to a number of different types of abuse, which include neglect, battering, and emotional damage, or the unwanted child could simply be deprived of the tenderness and affection ...
"Should Doctors assist their patient's death? The doctors' obligation is to provide every possible support during the process of dying. Do doctors have the right to hasten the process, when requested to do so? There has been a great deal of discussion over this topic for the past few years." For many years now, assisted suicide has been...
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is a worldwide research effort with the goal of analyzing the structure of human DNA and determining the location of the estimated 100,000 human genes. The DNA of a set of model organisms will be studied to provide the information necessary for understanding the functioning of the human genome. The information gathered by the human genome project i...
is one of the most acute and uncomfortable contemporary problems in medical ethics. Is Ethical? The case for rests on one main fundamental moral principle: mercy. It is not a new issue; has been discussed-and practised-in both Eastern and Western cultures from the earliest historical times to the present. But because of medicine's new technolo...
Intelligence is defined as 'the possession of knowledge, the ability to efficiently use knowledge to reason about the world, and the ability to employ that reasoning adaptively in different environments' (Bernstein, Clarke-Stewart, Roy, and Wickens, 1997,pp. 304). But can we accurately measure intelligence? There are a vast variety of Intelligenc...
