ABORTION
This is an excerpt from the paper...
Perhaps not since the vituperative Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and '60s, when ideology turned ugly and caused deaths and injury, has any subject been as vehemently argued as the issue of Abortion. Former Surgeon-General, J. Everett Koop stated: "Nothing like this has separated our society since slavery" (Kerl 1) This issue is neither academic nor even, perhaps, objective. A woman faced with an unwanted pregnancy generally understands at some visceral level that there is human life inside her, making that question moot. The fact is that most people agree that abortion should be a rare procedure Abortion is, and likely will always be, fraught with emotional and physical turmoil. The turmoil has brought into focus not merely legal accountings for the (at least) legal approval of abortion (Roe vs. Wade in 1973) but has divided much of society into two sometimes armed and irrational camps. It is nearly impossible to find someone who doesn't have an opinion about abortion, and probably a strong opinion at that. Both sides of the issue make a good case for their "side". An unwanted child is a pitiful thing, and the attendant social problems (single motherhood, financial destitution, child neglect, and urban overcrowding, the need for welfare, to name just a few) do not have easy solutions. While medical progress has made aborting a fetus (even in later and later terms) feasible, safe, and not financially over-burdening, the crisis that the Abortion is
. . .
f books and hundreds of articles have been written, legal opinions handed down, even web sites established by pro-life and pro-abortion advocates.
First an overview and update of the legal actions and ramifications of abortion. Although the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision legalized abortion, subsequent more conservative Supreme Court decisions have narrowed the scope severely. To quote Chief Justice William Rehnquist: "àRoe continues to exist, but only in the way a storefront on a western movie set exists, a mere fatade to give the illusion of reality." This sentiment, and more recent rulings such as the 1992 Planned Parenthood vs. Casey decision where the Court ruled that restrictions on abortion are constitutional provided they do not place an "undue burden" on a woman's access to abortion. Such restrictions include parental notification and consent, gag rules, and mandatory waiting periods. While the Journal of the American Medical Association boasts that, since 1990, the year in which abortions were the highest, the annual number of abortions in the U.S. has decreased by 15%, organizations such as NOW (National Organization for Women) claims that the reduction is due to the fact that 84 percent of counties in the U.S. do no
. . .
Some common words found in the essay are:
Hester Prynne, Everett Koop, South Carolina's, Liberal Protestant, Combined Republican, Organization Women, Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood, Obstetricians Gynecologists, Dr Koop, vs wade, roe vs wade, roe vs, american medical association, et al 1998, george bush, woman choose, chrisman 2000, basic philosophical, journal american medical, national organization, national organization women, organization women, pro-abortion advocates, al 1998,
Approximate Word count = 1544
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)
|
Customer Service
to Over
32,000 Professionally Written Papers!!!
