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Abortion Flashcards

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Human Development

Gestational age

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  • Last Menses Cycle (aka LMS)
  • Embryonic age + 2 weeks
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Human Development

Embryonic Age

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  • Age since conception
  • Gestational age - 2 weeks
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Human Development

When is a pregancy test positive?

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  • When embryo is embeded in Uterine Lining
  • HCG is released which makes test positive
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Human Development

Hypoblast

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  • secondary yolk sack
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Human Development

Chorion

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  • Outer Memberane that surround the embryo, the amnion and other membranes
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Human Development

Amnion

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  • inner membrane that
    surrounds the embryo
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Human Development

Yolk Sack

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  • in mammals, no yolk but
    becomes part of the umbilical cord
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Human Development

Bilateral Symmetry

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  • Day 14
  • Gestational Week 4
  • Primative Streak
  • Limit of Embryo dev for US law
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Human Development

Gastrulation

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  • Day 15
  • Increased differentiation ==> Mesoderm, Ectoderm. Endoderm
  • Heavily reduced chance at twinning

Embryonic

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Human Development

Heart Development

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  • Week 3 = 3 cells layers ==> Heart beat & dev
  • Week 8: Fully Functional Heart

Gestational

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Human Development

Brain Development

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  • Week 3-4: Neural Plate and Fore, mid, hind brain
  • Week 24: EEG ≈ Adult EEG
  • Week 27: Pain Sys Dev
  • Week 28: Expansion of Frontal Cortex

Gestational

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Human Development

Point of Viability

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  • Gestational Week 21
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Human Development

Self-Awareness

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  • 18 months after birth
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Human Development

Theory of Mind

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  • Age 4-5
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Abortion

Types of Abortion

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  1. Medical: 0-9 weeks
  2. Surgical: 10-24 weeks
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Abortion Technology

Plan B

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  • Morning After Pill
  • Right after Intercourse
  • What it does:
    • Blocks Ovulation
    • Prevents sperm advancement with increased sticky and acidity
    • Blocks Implantation
16
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Abortion Technology

InterUterine Device(IUD)

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  • Similar to Plan B
17
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Abortion Technology

Plan B Ella

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  • 1 pill but need perscription
18
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Abortion Technology

RU-486

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  • Abortion Pill
  • Mifepristone: Weeks 5-7
  • 2 days aft: Misopristol
19
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Abortion Technology

Suction Curettage

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  • Vacuum Dilation and curettage(D & C)
  • Less than 12 weeks
20
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Abortion Technology

Classic D & C

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  • Not using vaccum but traditionally scraping uterus
  • Around 12 weeks
21
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Abortion Technology

Dilation and Evacuation

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  • Time: 2nd Trimester
  • Pulling out parts of fetus then vaccuming rest
22
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Abortion Technology

Intact Dilaition and Extraction

D & X

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  • After 20 weeks
  • Partial delivery then skull drain
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Abortion Technology

Induction

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  • Used late in the second trimester
  • Injection of saline or
  • Injection of urea & prostaglandins
  • Early Delivery of Baby
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Abortion Reasons

Late Term Abortions

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  • Maternal Health, Fetal Birth Defects, Denial
25
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Abortions Globally

Safety

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  • Safe in developed nations
  • 45% unsafe in developing
26
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Abortion Safety

Who are they

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  • 75% poor
  • 62% Religious
  • 59% 1 child already
  • 60% in 20s
  • 39% white
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In Defence of Abortion

Premise

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  1. Fetus is person
  2. All people have right to life
  3. Mother has right to bodily autonomy
  4. Right to life is greater than right to bodily autonomy
    * Therefore: Abortion Immoral
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In Defence of Abortion

Plugged Violinst Analogy

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  • Individual kidnapped by Music Lovers Society to save a famous violinist
  • Plugged into him to save him(for 9 months)
  • Puts abortion into a more digestable and less controversial context
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In Defence of Abortion

Good vs Minimally Descent Samartians

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  • Good = Doing beyond just enough, putting forward significant effort
    • Pregnancy
  • Minimially Decent: Doing minimum to help
  • Comparison: LBJ travelling by plane to cure you or just across the room to touch forehead
30
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In Defence of Abortion

Drowning Girl Analogy

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  • Comparing if someone with more ability, ex lifeguard, has more morality compared to a normal person
  • No because still bodily autonomy and have to be more than morally decent?
31
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Marquis

Questions trying to answer

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  • Main: When does life begin?
  • Side: Why is it wrong to kill?
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Marquis

Marquis’ Argument

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  1. Abortion = Killing Fetus
  2. Immoral to kill something like ours
  3. Fetus has future like hours
  • Therefore, Abotion is immoral
33
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Marquis

“Future Like Ours”

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  • Any life on the human continum
34
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Marquis

Contraception Opinion

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  • Not wrong because indvidual gametes are not life nor have a future like ours
  • Creates situation where not all premises mentioned

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