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- 201: New Reproduction Technologies
- ... moral right of the individual, because everyone would have access to them and denying a person the opportunity to engage in NRTS would be denying them a moral right. This is precisely the difference between abortion and NRTS. Due to the fact that anyone can have access to abortions, denying a person the ability to have an abortion is immoral. Of course other issues factor into the debate consisting of the unborn child s right to life, but because abortion is accessible to everyone, it becomes a moral issue. NRTS, therefore, follow under the category of freedom of choice. The freedom to choose without the threat of punishment. This is an interesting topic, choice, ...
- 202: The Women Of A Passage To Indi
- ... the Nawab. Olivia became very close with the Nawab. She eventually came to carry his child. Because Olivia did not believe the child she was carrying was her husband s, she decided to have an abortion. The abortion was discovered by the English doctor at the hospital she was taken to when she started to miscarry. After it was discovered that she had undergone an abortion, Olivia never returned to Douglas 1 Adela also underwent similar circumstances. Because of her association with Aziz, the native who invited her to visit the Marabar Caves, her potential engagement of Ronnie never happened. ...
- 203: Premarital Sex
- ... there is a high risk of catching a STD or having an unwanted pregnancy. In the chance of a pregnancy there are alternatives such as raising the child on your own, giving it up for abortion, and the sinful way out, having an abortion. Abortion is a mortal sin because it is the death of an unborn child. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: By its very nature the institution of marriage and married love is ordered to ...
- 204: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... birth control, which made the sexual revolution possible. It altered people's dedication to their children and altered a fundamental orientation of society. Sexual morality got unanchored in the 1960s, followed by the legalization of abortion. "Abortion is a very definite rejection of the child. So is out-of- wedlock births, as well as divorce," he says. "The [predators] everyone' s afraid of were abused kids. There's sexual abuse and alcohol ... love is. " In 1950, for every 100 children born, he says, 12 had divorced parents or were born out of wedlock. In 1992, that number had quadrupled to 60 children for every 100 born. Throw abortion into the mix, and the number shoots up to 92 per 100. (4) John Dilulio asserts that "each generation of crime-prone boys has been about three times as dangerous as the one before ...
- 205: The Power of The Judiciary
- ... to develop the power to change policy in America. The reason for this can be explained by a great many examples, the biggest perhaps being the case of Roe v. Wade where the issue of abortion took the forefront of the American judiciary system. In this case, to ask the Supreme Court to interpret the law as best described by the Constitution would be useless because the Constitution states nothing on the matter of abortion. So what is the Supreme Court supposed to do in these types of situations? The answer of course is to take the matter into their own hands and interpret the law as THEY see fit ... a law or to uphold a law is to deal with political policy in America. When the Supreme Court carried out a decision on the Roe v. Wade case, it succeeded in not only making abortion the right of a woman to decide on, but it also succeeded in setting forth a precedent of policy making in America. This was a huge national issue, perhaps one of the largest of ...
- 206: Peyton Place
- ... At 32 years old, Grace Metalious wrote the blockbuster novel Peyton Place. It transformed the publishing industry and made the author one of the most talked about people in the nation. Metalious wrote about incest, abortion, sex, rape, adultery, repression, lust, and the secrets of small town New England, things that were never discussed before in conservative America. She interpreted incest, wife beating, and poverty as social failures instead of individual ... and high school students, college graduates, mothers, wives, and even husbands and fathers. In 1956, a sexual act such as sodomy, oral sex, and intercourse with another married person in most states was illegal. Also, abortion was illegal, and birth control was unreliable and in many cases, difficult to find. To many critics, Metalious book was not scandalous because of its case in point, but because of the sexual pleasures that ... Joey, deranged mother and alcoholic stepfather, Lucas Cross. She lived an abusive life with Lucas drinking, beating her mother, beating her, and sexually violating her. He gets Selena pregnant and she secretly gets an illegal abortion from the town doctor, who forces Lucas to disappear from Peyton Place and never come back or everyone will know what he did to his daughter. Selena works at Connies store and becomes ...
- 207: '96 Elections
- ... to do, but it is a good aspect of Bob Dole. He also has a goal for a plan of economic growth. I myself like the aspect that Bob Dole as a republican is against abortion. I think abortion is murder to innocent babies who are not even given a chance to live. Clinton is the other major candidate for the elections. He is a democrat that is hoping to get re-elected to serve another four years. While in his first term, Clinton has made abortion a legal act, increased our taxes, and been accused of many small lies; but if he is accused of those small lies, why should we not be able to think he is lying to ...
- 208: Feminist Backlash: The Unconscious Undermining of Genuine Equality
- ... movement wanted a complete restructuring of American society which included the restructuring of family, individuals free to determine their own life style, sexual preference, occupation, and personal values. They were concerned with the availability of abortion, and called for 24-hour childcare, and equal education and employment opportunity. In the 1980's, the feminist movement had many of the same concerns. Women had lobbied legislatures, initiated lawsuits, marched in demonstrations, and boycotted major corporations to secure their rights. The women's movement was still calling for equal pay, education and job opportunities, free contraception and abortion on demand, 24-hour nurseries under community control, legal and financial independence, an end to the discrimination against lesbians, freedom from the intervention by threat of violence of sexual coercion, regardless of marital status, and ... the Story of My Life (1996), asks would the liberation of women require the abolition of a common morality? Being female in America is not easy. The Feminist Chronicles (1993) has endless lists of monumentous abortion laws and states the Christian Coalition as a threat to feminist progress. Women are caught in a no-win situation; they want for themselves and their daughters the choice and empowerment feminist speak of. ...
- 209: Sexual Attitudes Have Changed
- ... and Hippie Lifestyles broke with existing sexual norms, free love and pre-martial sex was adopted in their cultures. Drugs were available and many people lost their inhibitions while under the influence. In 1967 the Abortion Act entitled women to legal abortion on medical and social grounds, although this was a very limited service on the NHS but many private clinics opened. This and the contraceptive pill played a great part in women becoming more sexually adventurous, as fear of becoming pregnant was taken away. Societies views on abortion was very negative at the time, and there is still very mixed attitudes on this subject. The 1970's and 1980's marked change in the public perception of homosexuals. High media profile of ...
- 210: Premarital Sex
- ... going through a highway tunnel. If the condom fails the person could become pregnant (premarital sex (2) 2). When a teenager becomes pregnant there are usually four options available; abortions, single parenting, adoption, and marriage. Abortion is the most common occurrence of teen pregnancy. Abortion is usually felt badly about but with many pressures the girl is receiving is usually what is done. Secondly the girl could decide to become a single parent. A teenager becoming a parent is forced ... you can see from the above options the male is most cases does not have to be responsible for his reactions. There are cases where the male pleads with the female not to have an abortion because he or his family will take care of the baby (Sex before marriage 1). There are also emotional effects of having premarital sex. " True intimacy springs from verbal and nonverbal communication. True intimacy ...
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