Abortion

An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy associated with the death of an embryo or a fetus. This can occur spontaneously, in the form of a miscarriage, or be intentionally induced through chemical, surgical, or other means. The pregnancy of any female mammal can be aborted; however, this article focuses exclusively on the phenomenon in women. Abortions have been induced by various methods for centuries. In the 20th century, the ethics and morality of abortions became the subject of intense political debate in many areas of ...

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Abortion: Encyclopedia II - Abortion - Methods of inducing abortion Depending on the gestational age of the embryo or fetus, different methods of abortion can be performed to remove the embryo or fetus from the womb. Abortion - Chemical abortion. Main article: Chemical abortion Effective in the first trimester of pregnancy, chemical, or non-surgical abortions comprise 10% of all abortions in the United States and Europe. The process begins with the administration of either methotrexate or mifepristone, followed by misoprostol. While misoprostol m ...

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Abortion: Encyclopedia - Abortion law

Abortion has been a controversial subject throughout history due to the moral and ethical issues that surround it. It has been regularly banned and otherwise limited, though abortions have continued to be commonplace in many areas where it is illegal. Almost 2/3 of the world’s women currently reside in countries where abortion may be obtained on request, for a broad range of social, economic or personal reasons. Abortion laws vary widely by country, ranging from Chile, El Salvador, Malta, and Vatican City, which ban the procedure entirely, ...

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Abortion: Encyclopedia - Unsafe Abortions

Unsafe Abortions - Unsafe Abortions. Unsafe abortions are a significant cause of maternal morbidity and mortality in the world, especialy in the developing countries (95% of unsafe abortions take place in developing countries). Every year 40 million induced abortions occur globally (IPAS) and according to the 2000 estimates (WHO) 19 millions unsafe abortions take place each year. According to WHO around 68,000 women die as a result of complications of unsafe abortion and between two million and seven million wome ...

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Abortion: Encyclopedia - Abortion in Australia

Abortion in Australia remains a subject of state law rather than national law, unlike any other country (with the possible exception of the United States). The grounds on which abortion is permitted vary from state to state. In every state, abortion is legal to protect the life and health of the mother - though life and health are defined differently in the different states. At Federation in 1901, abortion remained governed by the British Offences Against the Person Act of 1861. The Act made abortion illegal under any circumstances. Since then, however, abortion law has remaine ...

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Abortion: Encyclopedia - Abortion in the United Kingdom

Abortion has been legal in England, Scotland and Wales since 1967. At the time, the legislation was one of the most liberal in Europe. Abortion in the United Kingdom - History. Abortion had been historically legal under common law in England, Scotland and Wales. Under English common law, abortions prior to 'quickening' - when the fetus could first be felt to move by the pregnant woman - was thought to be morally and legally acceptable. Under Scottish common law, abortion was defined as a criminal offence unless pe ...

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Abortion: Encyclopedia - Abortion in Canada

Canada is one of only a few countries in the world with no laws limiting abortion. While some non-legal obstacles exist, abortion access in Canada is among the freest in the world. Polls continue to show that a majority of Canadians believe abortion should remain legal in some circumstances (see Opinion polls, below). Over 110,000 abortions are performed in Canada every year. Approximately 90 per cent of abortions are performed in the first trimester, with just 2 to 3 per cent performed after 16 weeks. Abortion in ...

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Abortion: Encyclopedia - Chemical abortion

A chemical abortion is a type of abortion in which a drug is used to induce the abortion, rather than a surgical procedure. Chemical abortion - Three Steps to a Medical Abortion. There are three steps to a medical abortion. First, a clinician will administer an injection of methotrexate or the patient will be given a dose of mifepristone in tablet form. Second, the patient will be given a second dose of misoprostol in tablet form that should be taken within 72 hours of the previous medication. As a ...

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Abortion: Encyclopedia - Abortion and Evangelical Christians

While the status of abortion has been accepted by some liberal Christian denominations, many Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians have actively opposed both the legal right of a woman to undergo an abortion and its practice within the wider community. This stance is at odds with many people who support the right of abortion. Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians have opposed abortion mainly because of their belief in the Bible as the unchanging and inspired Word of God, as well as the interpretive framework that is used to un ...

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Abortion: Encyclopedia - Abortion debate

Throughout history, induced abortions have been a source of considerable debate and controversy. An individual's personal stance on the complex ethical, moral, and legal issues has a strong relationship with the given individual's value system. A person's position on abortion may be described as a combination of their personal beliefs on the morality of induced abortion and the ethical limit of the government's legitimate authority. Political sides have largely been separated into absolute extremes — either seeking to make all abortion illegal, or to perm ...

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Abortion: Encyclopedia - Abortion in the United States

The issue of abortion in the United States is a highly charged issue with significant political and ethical debate. In a medical sense, the word abortion refers to any pregnancy that does not end in live birth. In the debate, however, abortion is almost always used to mean "induced abortion," as contrasted to "spontaneous abortion" or "miscarriage". Abortion in the United States - Legal aspects. The current judicial interpretation of the U.S. Constitution regarding abortion in the United States, following t ...

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Abortion: Encyclopedia - Abortion in Ireland

The subject of abortion has had a controversial history in Ireland, and remains a controversial subject today. Abortion in Ireland - Constitutional Issues: Ireland & the Abortion Debate. At independence, the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act remained in force, maintaining all abortions to be illegal and subject to punishment. In response to the 1967 legalisation of abortion in Britain and the subsequent rise in the numbers of Irish women travelling to Britain each year to obtain an abortion, ...

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Abortion: Encyclopedia - Wrongful abortion

The term Wrongful Abortion was defined by Perry & Adar as an abortion that a pregnant woman is induced to undergo by negligent conduct (usually a medical misrepresentation). See Ronen Perry & Yehuda Adar, Wrongful Abortion: A Wrong in Search of a Remedy, 5 YALE J. HEALTH POL'Y L. & ETHICS 507 (2005). 1 In their article Perry & Adar contend that the law does not currently provide adequate incentives to avoid wrongful abortions, the consequences of which are often devastating. They suggest that the b ...

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Abortion: Encyclopedia - Abortion-breast cancer ABC hypothesis

The controversial abortion-breast cancer (ABC) hypothesis posits a causal relationship between having an induced abortion and a higher risk of developing breast cancer in the future. An increased level of estrogen in early pregnancy helps to initiate cellular differentiation (growth) in the breast in preparation for lactation. If this process is terminated, through abortion, before full differentiation in the third trimester, then more "vulnerable" undifferentiated cells will be left than there were prior to the pregnancy. It is propo ...

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Abortion: Encyclopedia II - Religion and abortion - Christianity

Early Christian writers condemned abortion explicitly. There is no known Early Christian text that contains any exceptions under which abortion would be morally permissible. The Didache, which most scholars consider to be written in the latter 1st century A.D., comments on the commandment, "you shall do nothing to any man that you would not wish to be done to yourself", by saying: ... Commit no murder, adultery, sodomy, fornication, or theft. Practise no magic, sorcery,< ...

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