The Ethical Issues Related to Abortion

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The Ethical Issues Related to Abortion
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Fetal Development
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Egg and Sperm
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Two Weeks
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One Month
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Two Months
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Two Months
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Four Months
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Five Months
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Five Months
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Eighteen Weeks
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Six Months
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Twenty Weeks
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Seven Months
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Eight Months
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Delivery
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Ethical Issues

• Medical Indications for Abortion
• Mothers Life is Threatened
• Mothers health is threatened
• The fetus has certain genetic or congenital
  problems
• Type of problem
• Gravity

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Policy Results

• Approximately 1.2 million abortions each year
• Demographics
• Young
• White
• Unmarried
• 85 involve healthy women and fetuses

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Ethical Issues

• Social Indications
• Age
• Social conditions in terms of support for a child
• Interruption of life plans
• Unwanted child

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Ethical Issues

• Other Indications
• Rape or Incest
• Sex Selection

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Ethical Issues

• The Value of Human Life
• Conception
• Brain waves
• Quickening
• Viability
• Birth

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Ethical Issues

• The Value of Human Life
• Intrinsic value from the moment of conception
• Inherent value after some point of development
• Assigned value according to various criteria of
  what it is to be a human being

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Ethical Issues

• A conflict of Values
• Right to Life
• Right of self-determination
• Life is a relative value

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Additional Resources

• The following internet sites provide additional
  information on fetal development and issues
  related to abortion
• http//www.parentsplace.com/first9months/main.html
  
• http//hoad.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000101.ht
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• http//ethics.sandiego.edu/video/Hinman/SocialEthi
  cs/Abortion/index.html
• http//www.feministsforlife.org/

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