Abortion Flashcards
Old as mankind itself
Terminated rather than prevented
Moral Issue about Abortion
Recommended abortion in order to avoid excess population - Greek City States
Plato & Aristotle
Pledge not to give women treatment that will lead to abortion
Hippocratic Oath
Women had ti drink bitter solution of certain tree leaves
Help of a local hilot
Practices are common among the poor in both rural and urban areas
Philippine Setting
Expulsion of a living fetus from the mother’s womb before it is viable
Abortion
Viability has ti d with fetus capability to live independently viable in the _th week towards the end of the 7th month
28th
Natural or accident. Spontaneous or accidental abortion
Miscarriage or nakunan
Abortion is unintentional is devoid of moral signit
Pr being
Natural Abortion
It refers to the deliberately induced expulsion of a living fetus before it has become viable
Direct or intentional abortion
Expulsion of a living fetus in order to save the mother from the danger brought on by pregnancy
Therapeutic action
Certain defects are discovered in the developing fetus better for child not to be have their lives miserable.
Crippling genetic disorder
Eugenic Abortion
Termed eugenic is to get rid of abnormal babies preventing containing the human species -
SELECTIVE ABORTION
Removal of the fetus on a secondary effect of a legitimate action direct or primary object
Indirect Abortion
Fusion of the spiritual soul in the embryo
Occurs from the moment of conception is already a person, have to expel or abort it is to commit murder
Ensoulment
State the viewpoint
Abortion is never permissible
Conservative
State the viewpoint
Always permissible, whatever the state of fetal development
Liberal Position
