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The abortion debate is a longstanding and contentious discourse that touches on the moral, legal, medical, and religious aspects of induced abortion. [1] In English-speaking countries, the debate has two major sides, commonly referred to as the "pro-choice" and "pro-life" movements.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Medication abortion, which involves taking two FDA-approved pills (mifepristone and misoprostol) to end an early pregnancy, now accounts for 63 percent of abortions in the U.S. But despite its ...
TheCall, which practices prayer and fasting in protest against issues such as same-sex marriage and legal access to elective abortion. Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a conservative, nonprofit, public interest law firm promoting what it describes as Judeo-Christian heritage and moral values in defense against same-sex marriage and abortion. [31 ...
In 1979, Juli Loesch linked anti-abortion and anti-nuclear weapons arguments to form the group Pro Lifers for Survival. In 1987 this group defined an ethic of the sanctity of all life, and formed the group Seamless Garment Network. This group was against abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, militarism, poverty and racism. [42]
MADISON — The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case that will determine the future of abortion access in the state, grounded in a challenge to a 19th Century law that was ...