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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.
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.
Texas has the ninth-highest teen birth rate of any state, 20.3 births per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19. And while teen birthrates have been falling in the U.S. as a whole since 1991, they remain ...
The Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (stylized as CCBR) is an anti-abortion group based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.. CCBR engages in a wide range of activities, including apologetics training, leafletting, interviews, debates and public demonstrations in campuses, schools, churches and streets throughout North America, and occasionally in Europe.
A Kentucky lawmaker introduces a bill that, if passed, would require public schools to show a controversial pregnancy video produced by anti-abortion group.
The same argument has been used to challenge abortion bans across the country in court. “I don’t have any problem with the video — I would gladly show that video in the Catholic school that ...
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 ...
On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v.Wade decision that had secured the federal right to obtain an abortion.. Now a political earthquake is likely to ensue. Abortion ...