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On the other side, abortion-rights groups say that criminalizing abortion will lead to the deaths of many women through "back-alley abortions", that unwanted children have a negative social impact, or conversely cite the legalized abortion and crime effect, and that reproductive rights are necessary to achieve the full and equal participation ...
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.
Some conservative anti-abortion organizations, such as Concerned Women for America, have made similar statements. [11] Gordon said the belief that Anthony opposed abortion was "far-fetched", [5] describing it as "what historians call an 'invented memory'—history without foundation in the evidence but with modern utility". [12]
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 ...
The findings come from the 2024 KFF Women’s Health Survey, which asked more than 6,200 women ages 18 to 64 across the country about issues such as abortion, contraception and mental health from ...
Warren was a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University for many years. Her essays have sometimes been required readings in academic courses dealing with the abortion debate and they are frequently cited in major publications like Peter Singer's The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature [2] and Bernard Gert's Bioethics: A Systematic Approach. [3]
Instead, they compel women to risk their lives and health by seeking out unsafe abortion care.” Villavicencio adds: “Quite simply, people will always need access to abortion.
Jackson Women's Health Care, abortion was banned 20 weeks after "probable fertilization." Women were required to undergo an ultrasound before an abortion, along with a counseling appointment and a ...