Abstract
This paper looks at the various methods used to perform abortions, according to the different stages of a woman's pregnancy. The methods described include the RU-486 pill, Methotrexate Injection, Dilation and Curettage, Dilation and Evacuation, Hysterectomy and Partial Birth Abortion. In the second part, the paper examines the various ethical and legal reasons for cut-off points proposed regarding the termination of a pregnancy.

From the Paper
"The preferred method of abortion is generally determined by the stage of a woman's pregnancy. Each method has its own side-effects and no abortion method is 100 percent successful. RU-486 pill. Also known as Mifepristone, the RU-486 pill is a synthetic steroid that blocks the actions of progesterone, a hormone essential to maintaining pregnancy. Without progesterone, the lining of a woman's uterus fails to thicken. The fertilized egg is thus unable to implant into the uterine wall and is excreted along with a woman's menstrual period."

Tags:birth, moral, pro, choice, life, baby, termination, terminate

Abstract
This paper discusses abortion from the point of view of both pro-life and pro-choice supporters. The author points out that Marquis suggests that it is immoral to abort a fetus based on the fact that it is immoral to kill a person. The paper stresses that until there is solid proof of when a person becomes a person, the right of the living (mother-to-be) should supersede the rights of a fetus.

From the Paper
"What makes killing a person wrong? Do the same considerations make destroying a fetus wrong as well? This paper will argue that abortion is moral and until there is clear evidence of when a fetus becomes a person the living (mother to be) ought to have the right to choose. In other words, the rights of the living should supersede the rights of a fetus. According to the author, Don Marquis, of "Why Abortion Is Immoral," abortion is wrong because is constitutes the loss of the fetus' future life, a life similar to that of most people, thus making abortion morally wrong for the same reasons that killing a person is morally wrong."

Tags:abortion, pro, life, pro, choice

Abstract
This paper studies the topic of abortion. The paper begins with some basic statistics on abortions throughout the world and defines an abortion as the termination of pregnancy at any time before birth and which results in, or is accompanied by, the death of the fetus. The paper then offers an explanation of the different methods of aborting a fetus, which include vacuum aspiration, dilatation and curettage. The paper explores the reasons why some women seek to abort their pregnancies and looks at the issue within American society.

Contents:
Introduction
Abortion
Methods of Abortion
Why Women Seek Abortion
Legalization of Abortion in the USA
The Social and Ethical Issues of Abortion

From the Paper
"Abortion has been practiced since ancient times as a crude method of birth control. Many religions banned or condemned it, but it was not considered illegal until the 19th century. At that time, especially in 1803 in England, abortion was banned after the fetal movement, or quickening, could be felt by the mother. It was, hence, likewise banned in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, as well as in many states in the United States."

Tags:society, medical, pregnancy, roe, wade, termination, fetus, fetal

Abstract
This paper examines various aspects of abortion and abortion law such as social and ethical concerns as well as the law, and more specifically concerned to that of women's rights.

From the paper:

"While medical science is making abortion much safer for the woman, the debates and the legal battles continue unabated. In the United States, the battles rage in the courts, the Congress and state legislatures. There have even been violent confrontations in the clinics where abortions are performed. There are people in favor of giving the woman the right to abort, and people who are not prepared to allow abortion except when it puts the life of the mother in danger. In between these two extreme positions, we have people taking intermediate positions."

Tags:women, pro-choice, pro-life, Roe, Wade

Abstract
This paper discusses the question of whether or not a 15-year old girl, pregnant courtesy a rape committed by an unknown assailant, should abort the fetus or not. The paper also looks at whether or not the parents of the girl have an ethical obligation to counsel her against the abortion, an ethical obligation to counsel her to have the abortion, or whether they should simply stand aside and let the girl make up her own mind. The paper explains that in addressing this problematic subject, it is essential that some philosophical theories be introduced so as to offer an intellectual framework for the discussion and the paper then examines Kant's deontology (with its emphasis upon the categorical imperative) and the theory of utilitarianism espoused by Jeremy Bentham, John Stewart Mills and others (with its concomitant emphasis upon "proportionality"). In conclusion, the paper shows that a deontological approach to this problem is too inflexible and unyielding and that a better resolution is to apply a proportionality test which recognizes that the harm which would be done to the young girl if the child was brought to term outweighs the argument by others that abortion is unethical.

From the Paper
"In the view of Erin Soros, the fetus arising from a rape becomes, at least for the woman or child who must bear it, a manifestation and reminder of the illegitimate desire of another. Additionally, the fetus is "a physical replacement for the part of herself that was lost through the trauma" (Soros, 1998, p.153). From an ethical stand-point, the woman's body has been violated by another and, to the extent that an abortion can heal the psychic wounds inflicted by rape, a woman is entirely within her prerogatives to demand that the product of sexual violence be excised from her being. For the young girl whose story lies at the heart of this paper, there is a utilitarian component to all of this; to wit, the suffering she would endure, and the displacement within her life which would result, from bringing the child to term outweighs whatever loss might be associated with aborting the fetus - at least that is Erin Soros' view."

Tags:fetus, emergency, contraception, termination, of, pregnancy, sexual, health, education

Abstract
This paper will examine the two sides of abortion. By showing the Pro-Life and Pro-Choice perspectives in an argumentative format, we can judiciously reason why women have a choice to have an abortion. By understanding these religious and scientific perspectives, we can surely see how religion does not hold a strong argument for the rights of women to abort their unborn fetus.

Abstract
The paper argues that mothers cannot merely use abortion as a form of genetic cleansing, where they abort until they find the biological profiles they like. The paper notes the forms of pro-choice that make sense, such as unwanted pregnancies that are not informed by the latest technology. What the paper is arguing against is when mothers choose whether to have an abortion after examining the fetus with the advances in technology to determine if this baby will be perfect. The paper contends that review boards need to be in place to determine if mothers are misusing technology for the purpose of finding that "perfect" baby.

From the Paper
"Technology gives a woman the chance, theoretically in this day and age, to figure out if she wants an abortion based on the biological and genetic profile of the fetus. Will the fetus be totally healthy, or have some minor birth defect? Will the fetus be more prone to certain diseases? What is the immunological structure of the fetus? The depth of information regarding the likely physical health of the fetus in this day and age is staggering. However, it is also inexact, and based on conjecture and projection regarding various pieces of data observed by new technology in the fetus. For instance, a child may be more "prone" to getting a disease, but that doesn't mean that the child will automatically contract the disease."

Tags:fetus, embryo, ethics, population, control

Abstract
This paper presents various arguments against the ethical nature of abortion. It discusses each of the perspectives and focuses its discussion on the landmark Supreme Court decision made in "Roe v Wade" and the implications of this decision for those who wish to abort. The paper also discusses the limitations of the decision, particularly with the advances in medical science from the time it was made until today.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Conservative Religious Views
Fetal Viability
Issue Analysis
Conclusion

From the Paper
"Furthermore, as medical science continues to progress, modern techniques have pushed back the viability of the fetus far beyond what it was in 1973 when Roe was decided. On one hand, this fact, in conjunction with state laws linking legislation to fetal viability would seem to lessen any likelihood of harming a sentient fetus. On the other hand, Roe was decided on the arbitrary definition of "trimesters" and not on fetal viability. Non-religious objection to the viability standard central to the Roe decision point out that contemporary understanding of biological development in the fetus suggest that sentience, in fact, develops long before the third trimester; therefore, subjecting a fetus to certain abortion procedures is unnecessarily cruel for that reason alone. However, unlike religious objections, that concern is fully capable of resolution through the use of anesthesia, without contradicting the concept of viability, in so much as sentience may precede fetal viability outside the womb."

Tags:trimester, fetus, rights, viability, womb

Abstract
This paper argues that abortions are morally wrong no matter what the circumstances. The paper compares the decision to abort a fetus based on information that the baby, once born, would suffer from a handicap throughout its life to a class system where people would be allowed terminate the lives of children already born but suffering from some severe malady.

From the Paper
"As early as 1869, the issue of abortion was hotly debated. In her publication The Revolution, Susan B. Anthony wrote, "Guilty? Yes. No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; But oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!" Still, even today the rhetoric rages on. However, babies are still dying, women are still being lied to by the medical profession, and men are still virtually blameless in the murders of America's children."

Tags:pro-choice, activists, parents, kill, infants, physical, emotional, intellectual, burden, society, discriminatory

Abstract
The paper explores the background of the feminist movement and the demand for women to gain rights over their bodies and the right to abort a fetus. The paper examines the legal definition of life before birth and then discusses the doctrine of the Catholic Church on protecting the life of an unborn fetus. The paper also addresses the concerns for the unborn fetus in light of increasing interest in stem cell research. The paper concludes by asserting that the debate will continue and both the pro-choice and pro-life sides will probably experience some measure of success in their efforts.

Outline:
Introduction
The Right to Choose
The Legal Definition of Life before Birth
The Catholic Church and Life before Birth

From the Paper
"The Church stood fast in its opposition to abortion, but the lobby to create birth as an obstacle to economic health, and the goal to increase the tax base from one income to two incomes per household, helped establish the link between abortion and the feminist movement of the 1960s. From this point on, with a campaign by environmentalists to save the planet from mankind, and the need for women to have complete control over their own bodies, and the government support of both groups with an eye towards increasing the tax base and in eliminating the potential future risk of a society that showed signs of becoming too educated to continue to slave to the tax base. Which meant that the number of Anglo Saxon majority would have to be reduced to the smallest possible denominator in order to bring up the new and more pliable tax base of impoverished immigrants from third world countries to assume that level of taxable population to support the elitists; abortion would have to be supported by way of the law."

Tags:pro-choice, pro-life, fetus, feminism, stem, cells, pregnancy