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Partial- Birth Abortion, 2000.
A persuasive essay about why laws concerning the end to partial-birth abortion should be enacted.
1,492 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 4 sources, $ 49.95
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This is a persuasive paper against Partial-Birth Abortion. The author discusses the side effects and negative impacts of Partial-Birth Abortion with special reference to effects on the mother and the child and uses these to support his argument. This paper includes a history and an overview of abortion.
Partial -Birth Abortion Overview
History of Abortion
The Mother
The Child
Summary
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"Partial -Birth Abortion is the unjustified killing of an unborn child in the most gruesome way possible. This is the intentional killing of a child by partially delivering it for the sole purpose of terminating its life. This is achieved by inducing the delivery of a child by allowing the cervix to dilate to only 8 centimeters. The physician vaginally delivers some portion of the intact living fetus until the fetus is partially outside the body of the mother, for the purpose of performing an overt act that the physician knows will kill the fetus. "
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Legal Brief: "The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban", 2005.
This paper describes a legal brief by Tamara F. Kushnir entitled 'Comment: It's My Body, It's My Choice: The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003' from the "Loyola University Chicago Law Journal",
Summer, 2004.
970 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper presents a progression of many cases by which Tamara F. Kushnir, in her legal brief from the "Loyola University Chicago Law Journal", establishes a history of the right to privacy and therefore the right to an abortion. The author then reviews Kushnir's analysis of the 2003 Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act (PBABA) and summarizes Congress' 15 declarations in this law. The paper relates that the final section of this article is the author's argument that the PBABA is unconstitutional because it does not only limit D&X, aka a partial-birth abortion, there is not an adequate health exception, it is an undue burden and the legislative findings are in conflict with the Stenberg decision. The author reports that Kishnir states that the deference should be based on 'City of Boerne v. Flores' and 'Dickerson v. U.S.', which said that legislative findings should not overrule a Constitutional provision.
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"In the PBABA, Congress was sure to present Congressional Findings in support of the Act. In fact, the author states that Congress dedicated 5 paragraphs to explaining how the Supreme Court should give high deference to the findings. The cases that were cited in support of deference to Congressional Findings were Anderson v. Bessemer City, Katzenbach v. Morgan, and Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc. v. FCC. Anderson v. Bessemer City set a precedent that the trial courts findings of fact have deference over a reviewing court."
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'Partial Birth' Abortion, 2004.
An argument against late-term, 'partial birth' abortion.
2,066 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 27 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper discusses how the 1972 passage of Roe vs. Wade has made abortion the greatest moral flash point in the United States today and how, for abortion supporters, the issue is often framed as a question of women?s rights and privacy. It examines how this argument, however, ignores the reality that abortion, particularly late-term 'partial birth' abortion, involves the rights of another human being as well. It puts forward the argument that a fetus is a human life and therefore entitled to the same protections as any person who has been born. It further argues that the termination of a fetus?s life involves violent and painful procedures that would be akin to murder and torture. It also looks at how, because of these factors, the federal courts should uphold the current ban on 'partial birth' abortions, ensuring the same basic protections to the most helpless and innocent segments of American society.
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"The issue of reproductive rights is a crucial part of the feminist movement, which believes that the right to control one?s body is central to a person?s dignity and independence. For many feminists, the abortion issue boils down to a question of women?s rights. The agitation against abortion is thus an agitation against change. Removing a woman?s option to terminate her own pregnancy harks back to the time when women were limited to traditional sex roles. Roe vs. Wade has done much more than making abortions legal. The decision has also affected traditional roles and values and has thus eroded the old moral order. Abortion is a contentious issue precisely because it has challenged prevailing standards and caused a fundamental shift in the societal power structures."
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The Issue of Abortion and Abortion Law, 2001.
This paper examines the issues of abortion and abortion law
6,015 words (approx. 24.1 pages), 20 sources, $ 142.95
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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.
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"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."
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American Civil Rights, 2008.
A discussion of the effect on civil rights in America of the Patriot Act of 2001 and the 2007 Supreme Court's decision to make partial-birth abortions illegal.
1,329 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses the challenges to civil rights that exist today in the United States. The paper particularly discusses the the implementation of the Patriot Act of 2001 and, in 2007, the Supreme Court's decision to make partial-birth abortions illegal. It then looks at how these two decisions have affected overall civil rights in America.
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"If any good can be found in this ongoing crisis in the United States and its Patriot Act, it is that, hopefully, an important lesson has been learned by American civil rights activists. That lesson is that human rights cannot be taken for granted. Activists need to keep working even when civil rights are in good shape. Luckily, one win for the Democrats will probably be enough to get the legal framework moving to repeal the Patriot Act. The history of American civil rights since 1945 is too strong a tradition to be held hostage by hysterical legislation."
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Abortion Controversies, 2002.
Examining the controversial topic of abortion, covering legal and moral issues.
952 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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The writer outlines abortion history and laws then focuses in the issue of partial birth abortion and its controversy. It provides an explanation of the legal development of laws relating to abortion and its eventual legalization. The paper provides statistics about the number of abortions performed in recent years, ages of the women, reasons etc. It then explains the concept of partial birth, when a fetus is aborted after 21 weeks, and the way that this is carried out is through semi-labor. The paper explains why this is obvioulsy a very controversial issue.
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"Three decades ago abortions were legalized, and efforts to have that decision reversed have not stopped since. Abortions used to be handled in back alleys, and dark rooms, with unsterile equipment many times. They were illegal and not something that one could talk about because they were not legally allowed to get them in the first place. The abortion legalization cleared the path for regulation by way of sterilization, and counseling for the patient before and after receiving an abortion procedure(Smith, 1979). While there have been many attempts to reverse the decision, they have been largely futile, because the public believed the service provided pregnant women was made safer by the legalization process. This was the case until a few years ago when the topic of partial birth abortions moved to the forefront. Partial birth abortions have created controversy that rivals the original controversy about abortion legalization."
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The Church and State Weigh in on Abortion, 2008.
This paper argues that abortion is a moral issue and one that does not belong in the courts.
1,366 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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In this article, the writer notes that on April 18, 2007, the Supreme Court handed down its decision on 'Gonzales v Carhart', et al. The writer points out that the decision, important to pro-life advocates, supports and leaves unaltered the partial birth abortion law. The writer explains that this makes it illegal to perform an abortion beyond the first trimester of a woman's pregnancy if that procedure to terminate the pregnancy involves the physician bringing the fetus - viable at that point - outside the womb, thereby effectively making that fetus a person residing in the locale into which it has at that moment been delivered. The writer maintains that it is unthinkable that the courts and the public has arrived at this point in time where the Supreme Court must decide the issue of whether or not it is acceptable to terminate a partially birthed life. The writer concludes that abortion is not a matter of constitutionality, but a moral one, and one that does not belong before the Supreme Court.
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"For those conservative pro-lifers who would applaud these last few sentences as sentences in support of their conservative views and their right to impose those views on society, the caution is to go forward carefully, because that is not the case. Nor is it in support of the liberal pro-abortion lobby and supporters. The liberals, who in some ways are more mysterious than the conservatives in that they are the very same people who stand outside prison gates with candles in protest of humane administration of a lethal combination of chemicals that ensures the termination of the life of a mass murderer, or another felon whose crime is so heinous as to warrant social intervention in deciding whether or not that individual should continue to draw breath. Do not rally, because this writer finds it extremely odd that this group advocates on behalf of the life which walks the earth, having committed heinous acts of violence, and is at the same time not willing to afford the same support or opportunity for life of a viable fetus whose value to society has yet to be determined. Rather, both groups have driven this writer to the narrow edge of law, considering the law in its legalese only and in its role in the order of society and especially in light of separation of powers."
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Abortion, 2002.
A paper on the ethical issues of abortion, as well as a full explanation of the various methods used to abort pregnancies.
1,480 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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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.
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"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."
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Abortion Should Be Outlawed, 2005.
A position paper that is presented from a Pro Life perspective citing ethical, legal, and humanitarian reasons why abortion should be outlawed.
2,451 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This paper argues that abortion is essentially legalized murder and it should be outlawed and prohibited under any circumstances. The essay discusses the practice of partial-birth abortion and argues that abortion violates the human rights of a fetus.
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"Many pro-choice supporters are moderates that feel abortion should be committed only under circumstances in which the mother was raped, or the mother is in danger. But, abortion under any circumstances still involves the termination of life, and humans should not play God in circumstances that are hard to classify and define from a moral or ethical standpoint (Skeffington). It is not up to humans to decide what circumstances constitute life and what circumstances constitute death. A child, once it has been conceived, has a right to be born and live out a life just like the rest of us."
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Abortion and U.S. Constitutional Law, 2006.
Aa assessment of the Stenberg v. Carhart Case relating to abortion.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper discusses how, since the establishment of the case, challenges to the legitimacy of Roe v. Wade (1973) have occurred on a state level. Of these dilation and extraction abortion procedures, which are also referred to by the term partial birth abortions, have made significant headway in the courts to contest the terms under which Roe v. Wade provides protection to personal privacy in the context of abortions.
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"The assessment of federal control over the corporal state of the American person has long been contentious. Abortion is one of the forums through which this issue is frequently expressed, as all efforts to identify whether abortion is an acceptable procedure from a moral and ethical perspective is challenged through the imposition of federal law over the woman's body. Precedent was established in Roe v Wade (1973) that limitations on abortion are unconstitutional as these are invasive controls over the woman's personal privacy. "
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Abortion: Is it Okay to Kill?, 2002.
An opinion paper against abortion.
1,620 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper expresses strong opinions against abortion, equating it with murder. The writer first provides a definition of what abortion is and some background facts and figures about this phenomenon. It then presents the reader with the thesis statement that abortion does equal murder and provides facts to support this statement. The writer also describes personal examples of women who had gone through abortions and their stories.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Abortion Facts
Meaning of Abortion
Thesis Statement: Abortion is Murder.
Definition of Birth
Reasons why Abortion is Murder
Views and Feelings of Women on Abortion
A Statistically Oriented Example
Conclusion
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"Abortion has been a topic of discussion for long enough to have some people feel that it has been a lifetime. However, that is not true; it goes way longer. Abortion in its own various, special forms has been carried out for as far as the human history can remember; though it is almost certainly true that many of us do not recognize the fact. I have heard from my teachers at school and read in many books that there was a time when new born, not even a day?s old, offsprings who were either disabled, mutated or, in some civilizations, were girls, were buried alive, or left in the wild to ?live out their destinies?. The family or the tribe in which such a ?demon? took birth thought it heretical and sarcastically sacrilegious when such a child was born in their community. And now, in these unspeakable days of ?technology? and ?modernism?, as dubbed by many, we know, humorously speaking, sometimes even before the baby is conceived that we do not require it. It is sad, but that is really true. "
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Post-Abortion, 2005.
This paper discusses abortion, especially the post abortion period, from the aspects of the Christian church.
2,035 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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This paper explains that, in the view of the church, abortion is possibly one of the most vivid instances of a circumstance where something is legitimate in this contemporary period but is viewed as committing a sin against God. The author points out that the Church declares that the victims of abortion are both the woman and her child because the demise of a child is one of the severest moments of strain a person can bear in life; therefore post-abortion syndrome is the emotional trauma of not lamenting and not allowing oneself to experience the agony and suffering that goes with the bereavement. The paper states that the Law of God divulges the sin of both partners and they feel at fault and immense grief, the church controls individuals who persistently experience the saddle of the sin of abortion by repeatedly indicating them to the cross of their Lord Jesus.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Church on Abortion
Church on Psychological and Physical Post-Abortion Sequelae
Conclusion
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"However, in case of some women, the strain post-abortion is linked with eating problems like overindulgence in eating, bulimia, and anorexia nervosa. Abortion is connected with greater depression, aggressive conduct, alcohol and drug abuse, and surrogate pregnancies, and lower maternal linkage with children who are born thereafter. These causes are strongly linked with child abuse and will seem to corroborate stray clinical evaluations connecting post-abortion pain with subsequent child abuse. It has been seen that post-abortion couples have increased chances of divorcing or undergoing separation. Several post-abortion women develop an increased problem forming long-term relationships with a male partner."
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The Ethics of Abortion, 2007.
A comparison of the arguments of Judith Thomson in "A Defense of Abortion," with those of Don Marquis in "Why Abortion is Immoral".
1,340 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the respective arguments of Judith Thomson in "A Defense of Abortion," with those of Don Marquis in "Why Abortion is Immoral." The paper argues that while the two approaches to the question of abortion are distinct in their fundamental assumptions, in general both arguments are based on the same methodological premise that the complex ethical issues surrounding abortion can be understood through what may be termed a "property-rights" approach. The paper concludes that Marquis' argument is marginally stronger than Thomson's in this regard.
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"Thomson's analogy that for a mother to be compelled to carry a person she does not want for nine months - with the possibility of years of support following - is analogous to someone using one's property without permission is clearly very strong. It suggests that the self-defense argument is particularly strong, to the point of being almost unchallengeable. After all, if we defend the right of a person to defend his own life to the point of killing another if necessary, then why cannot the same rule apply to a mother. More broadly, why should a mother be forced to allow another person use of their property should they not wish this? In contrast, Marquis seems to emphasize the value of the property in this analysis. For the mother to terminate a fetus would be, in effect, the elimination of decades of life-value for the unborn fetus."
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