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An affirmative answer would support the (1) claim in the central anti-abortion argument, while a negative answer would support the (1) claim in the central abortion-rights argument. Another family of arguments relates to bodily rights—the question of whether the woman's bodily rights justify abortion even if the embryo has a right to life.
The Code of the Assura, c. 1075 BC has penalties for several different types of abortion crimes: if a woman aborts against her husband's wishes, if a man causes an abortion in any woman at the first stage of pregnancy; if a man causes an abortion in a harlot. In the first case, the woman is to be crucified; in the second, the man is fined two ...
A Defense of Abortion is a moral philosophy essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1971. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the right to life does not include, entail, or imply the right to use someone else's body to survive and that induced abortion is therefore morally ...
Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that made access to legal abortion a constitutional right in the United States, has been overturned by the Supreme Court, disrupting nearly 50 years of precedent ...
Their argument is that medical abortions, or "chemical abortions," erode their population, leading to those adverse consequences for the size of their congressional delegations (Idaho has two ...
The latest abortion case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court debated one of the thorniest questions around abortion bans: how close to death must a person be to qualify for the life-saving ...
Wade, the Supreme Court's abortion cases have established (and affirmed, and re-affirmed) a woman's right to choose an abortion before viability. States may regulate abortion procedures prior to viability so long as they do not impose an undue burden on the woman's right, but they may not ban abortions."
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case on a abortion case that crystallizes "the politicization of science," one expert told KFF Health News. At stake in mifepristone case: abortion, FDA’s ...