Category: Abortion

I am passionate about many things, but in these last few years, particularly in 2020, because of the time to think, one passion has grown. This passion is to fight one of the largest issues in the country that often gets pushed to the side among other smaller issues. I take every opportunity to speak…

Introduction: Abortion remains to be a huge public health issue that conjures social, political, legal, cultural, and religious views and controversies in all cultures. This is mainly so in countries with restraining abortion laws. In spite of variations in the legal significance of abortions in favor of restrictiveness in developing countries rivaled with developed countries,…

In Judith Jarvis Thomson’s excellent essay “A Defense of Abortion” she asserts that even if a fetus is a person at conception, some abortions should be moral permissibility. At the start of her eloquent essay, Thomson acknowledges that a fetus has a right to life as it is considered a person at conception. The real…

”I have noticed that those who go for abortion have once been a fetus and went through conception before coming into this world.” A quote from Ronald Reagan (https://www.goodreads.com). During the last twenty years, abortion has been a controversial issue in the United States and most countries of the world including Papua New Guinea as…

Abortion may be perceived as usual, yet it remains a controversial issue in many societies. Based on the data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), more than half a million women procured legal abortions (2015 Jatlaoui, et al. 3) There are higher possibility that a significant number of women, especially the ones from lower…

Throughout the semester I had the opportunity to learn about different religions and the cultures that our society here and around the world experience and live in. Although I do not consider myself a religious person who goes to church every Sunday, reads the bible, or abides by each and every step of my religion…

According to Wicker Allan and Rachel August, “generalization is a broad affirmation or concept obtained by inference from specific instances; it is a statement that seems to be true in most situations or for most people, but that may not be completely true in all cases” (8). People often tend to generalize because they like…

It is commonly acknowledged that the ethics of abortion have long been a source of discussion and debate, with debate spanning decades. The term literally refers to the act of terminating a pregnancy by either extracting an embryo or the fetus before it reaches development (Forster 52). Miscarriage is the term for an unintentional abortion;…

It is indisputable that Ronald Reagan was responsible for an economic revolution in the USA during his tenure as President. On a cultural level, Reagan oversaw the polarisation of American society as divisions deepened, but was not personally responsible for a ‘cultural revolution’. This essay will first explore Reagan’s economic reformations, maintaining that he was…

Introduction While abortion signifies one of the most common gynecological processes globally, no movement has stirred such ache and controversy as the right to an abortion. The fundamental social and political paradox raised by abortion is two-fold: the legitimate domain to which a decision about abortion is to be made, and the salient determinant factors…