Abortion Flashcards
1
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2 common reasons for abortion
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- Risk to mother’s life
2. Risk of child being born disabled
2
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why abortion is increasing
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advances in med technology
women’s rights and equality- an advance
socio-economic pressures- lack of living space
3
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2 distinct sides of debate to abortion
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- Pro Life
2. Pro choice
4
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Pro life
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Believe abortion= act of genocide
5
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Pro choice
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THe right to an abortion= human right and links to personal autonomy of a women
6
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6 different forms of abortion
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Abortion pill Morning after pill Intra Uterine Device Vacuum Aspiration Abortion Evacuation and cutterage Intact dilation and extraction
7
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Main focus points of debate for PRO LIFE
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- Foetus is a person at conception:
1. Foetus is not yet a person but has potential to become a person so should be treated as one - Foetus has moral claims based on its potential- potential to become a person
- Foetus becomes a person at 14 days- primitive streak
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Main focus points of debate for PRO CHOICE
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- Women’s right to choose- autonomy:
1. Right to privacy
2. Right to bodily integrity
3. Right to Equality
9
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What is the ‘double effect’?
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Saving life of mother but not foetus
e.g a stabbed pregnant women- need surgery- without surgery both mother and foetus would die
10
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Abortion law in England
Abortion Act 1967
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- Foetus isnt a person until it is born
- Legal to have abortion up to 24 weeks
- Abortion needed to prevent physical/mental harm to women
- Continuing pregnancy would involve greater risk to life of women greater than if pregnancy were terminated
- There is a big risk that if the child were born it would suffer from physical/mental abnormalities
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Abortion- Minors
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- If minor is <16 and fraser competent= can have abortion
- But if she is <16 and does not want abortion her parents can consent to abortion but no requirement in law to acquire parental consent
