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Pro-Life or Pro-Choice or A Life full of difficult Choices: Controversies concerning Abortion

2. Abortion is controversial !. 3. Abortion Laws in Portugal. Portugal:In 1984, a law was approved legalizing abortion on three grounds: danger to the life or the health of the woman; fetal malformation; rape. . In 1998, a referendum was held on whether legal abortion on request up to 10 we

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Pro-Life or Pro-Choice or A Life full of difficult Choices: Controversies concerning Abortion

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    1. 1 Pro-Life or Pro-Choice or A Life full of difficult Choices: Controversies concerning Abortion

    2. 2 Abortion is controversial !

    3. 3 Abortion Laws in Portugal

    4. 4 Do you support Abortion?

    5. 5 Case 1

    6. 6 Case 2

    7. 7 Issues concerning Abortion 1. Does human life have intrinsic value? If yes, why? 2. Is the human fetus a person? -How to define a “person”? -Must a human being have certain basic properties (e.g. ability to reason or presence of self-awareness) to qualify as a person? -Is the human fetus a person from the moment of conception? -When life begins?

    8. 8 The plugged-in violinist You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. He is a famous violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney disorder, and the Society of Music Lovers has canvassed all the available medical records and found that you alone have the right blood type to help. They have therefore, kidnapped you, and last night the violinist’s circulatory system was plugged into yours, so that your kidneys can be used to extract poisons from his blood as well as your own.

    9. 9 The plugged-in violinist The director of the hospital now tells you, “Look, we’re sorry the Society of Music Lovers did this to you – we would never have permitted if we had known. But still, they did it, and the violinist now is plugged into you. To unplug you would be to kill him. But never mind, it’s only for nine months. By then he will have recovered from his disorder, and can safely be unplugged from you.”

    10. 10 The plugged-in violinist Do you have the right to unplug? Will you unplug?

    11. 11 Issues concerning Abortion 3. Does human fetus enjoy some rights even if it is not a person (a potential person)? -Will the rights vary according to the stages of the development of the fetus? -How to draw the line on the development of the fetus that it has arrived at a stage that abortion should not be allowed? -Is “viability” the test?

    12. 12 Issues concerning Abortion 4. The maternal rights of the mother -What are the rights? -What claim a woman can have over her right to bodily integrity? 5. How to balance the conflict of rights? -Should we consider the issue as a conflict of rights?

    13. 13 Issues concerning Abortion 6. Other considerations -How should we see pregnancy due to rape? -What may be the psychological effects of an abortion? -Whether the woman choose to abort is mainly because of her poor social and economic conditions? What can the society do about that?

    14. 14 Issues concerning Abortion 6. Other considerations (continued) -At the time of making the decision to abort, is the woman provided with sufficient information? Is the doctor under a duty or does the doctor have the freedom to provide information? What information can be provide? -Should the woman’s family be involved? -Should the biological father of the fetus be involved? Does he have any interest or right?

    15. 15 Issues concerning Abortion 7. Who should make this decision? -by the court? -by the government? -by all other people? -by the mother? -by the mother’s parents -by the biological father of the fetus? -by the fetus (how?)

    16. 16 Under what condition can a woman has abortion?

    17. 17 Abortion Laws in United States

    18. 18 Abortion Laws in United States

    19. 19 The real Jane Roe: McCorvey is "Jane Roe," the pseudonym she assumed to remain anonymous as the lead plaintiff in the case that legalized abortion in the United States. "I'm very sad (about the anniversary)," she told CNN Interactive in a telephone interview. "But this year, I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad." Once an abortion-rights supporter, the 50-year-old McCorvey has switched sides: She's now a vocal anti-abortion activist. She has started a ministry called Roe No More to fight against abortion rights with the aim of creating a mobile counseling center for pregnant women in Dallas.

    20. 20 Abortion Laws in United States

    21. 21 Abortion Laws in United States

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