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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.
Anti-abortion feminist Derr contextualized Anthony's words not to abortion but to Anthony's opposition to a law which held that, if a child was unborn at the time of its father's death, custody of the newborn infant could be taken away from the mother if there was a guardian appointed in the father's will. [1]
Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that overturned Roe, patients across the country have needed to travel further, spend more, and risk their health in order to receive abortion care ...
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 ...
These examples tell us two things: Abortion is a cornerstone campaign issue for candidates, and we need a new sexual revolution in our society. Abortion is certifiably a kitchen-table issue now.
In Texas, where travel time to an abortion facility increased from about 15 minutes to an average of eight hours post-Dobbs, more than 17,000 women still made the trek in the second half of 2023 ...
A 2019 Gallup poll found that men and women in the United States generally hold similar abortion views: "19% of both men and women say abortion should be totally illegal; 31% of women and 26% of men want abortion to be totally legal." [69] In addition, 53% of men and 48% of women favored abortion being legal, but only under certain ...