Argument Against Euthanasia
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god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor
should be allowed to decide who lives and who dies.
The issue of euthanasia is having a tremendous impact on medicine
in the United States today. It was only in the nineteenth century that the
word came to be used in the sense of speeding up the process of dying and
the destruction of so-called useless lives. Today it is defined as the
deliberate ending of life of a person suffering from an incurable disease.
A distinction is made between positive, or active, and negative, or
passive, euthanasia. Positive euthanasia is the deliberate ending of l .....
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What Is Euthanasia?
.... Second, a grave physical handicap exists that is so restricting
that the individual cannot, even after due care, counseling, and re-
training, tolerate such a limited existence. This handicap is a fairly rare
reason for suicide; most impaired people cope remarkably well with their
affliction, but there are some who would, at a certain point, rather die.
We say that there is a second form of suicide; justifiable suicide, that is
a rational and planned self-deliverance from a painful and hopeless disease
which will shortly end in death. I do not think the word "suicide" sits
well in this context but we are stuck with it. Suicide i .....
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Patient Assisted Suicide: Whose Example Should Be Followed?
.... phasing between unconsciousness and severe
pain. There are also cases in which an individual becomes diagnosed with a
disease with no definite cure and faces a road of painful treatment and
emotional heartache . One example of this was Diane's case. Diane was one
of Dr. Quills patients who was diagnosed with "acute myelomonocytic
leukemia", a disease with a 25% survival rate with treatment and certain
death in at most a few months without treatment (Quill 434). This disease
is very painful to say the least. She was faced with the decision between
a painful treatment process or death. Diane chose to let the disease run
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Suicide In Jails
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place in the first three hours of isolation which is referred to as the “crisis
period" (Hess 1987). The crisis period is reflective of arrest and incarceration
as producing extreme confusion, fear, and anxiety. The crisis period is also the
result of isolation. Isolation causes an individual to lose all social support
systems. Placing an individual in isolation may be a form of protection, but
this gives the individual an opportunity to concentrate on feelings of
hopelessness (Winkler 1992). Hopelessness can be defined as the presence of
despair and negative feelings about the future (Shneidman 1987).Isolation ca .....
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Abortion: A Controversial Subject
.... choose abortion. This is where pro-life has its biggest problem. Pro-life states that "Abortion is not usually chosen as the immediate solution for rape and incest victims but that is the prevailing belief of the general population. A woman has been raped and made pregnant: "Oh, she's got to have an abortion." No one has studied the rape and incest victims needs; abortion is presumed to fill her needs."
Various studies and research indicate that rape and incest victims fall into a high-risk category of abortion. But what happens after a victim has an abortion? Jackie Baker a victim states: "I soon discovered .....
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Abortion
.... or are religious. They believe that abortion is murder, and that God does not approve of this. There is a book called “The Hand of God“, written by Dr. Bernard Nathanson, one of the doctors that was instrumental in getting legislation for abortion passed in the 1960’s. Dr. Nathanson is now an ex-abortion doctor, who actually performed an abortion on his own child and felt no remorse. He himself states that he performed thousands of abortions in his career and supervised thousands more. He states in the book that a lot of the statistics that were used initially to assist with the passing of abortion were exaggerated .....
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Abortion
.... The rate among minority teens climbed from 186 per 1,000 to 189 per 1,000.
The most popular procedure involved in abortions is the vacuum aspiration which is done during the first trimester (three months or less since the women has become pregnant). A tube is simply inserted through the cervix and the contents of the uterus are vacuumed out. The most commonly used type of second trimester abortion is called dilation and evacuation. Since the fetus has bones, bulk and can move, second trimester is not as simple. When as much of the fetus and placenta are vacuumed out then tweezers are used to remove larger parts. After .....
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Abortion: What Do We Do?
.... can be very costly, easily up into the thousands. On the most part, women who do have abortions done, do so without any major complications.
As far as abortion techniques, there are several that doctors can choose from. Used in the first trimester of pregnancy (first 12 weeks) is "suction", or "vacuum aspiration". The fetus is basically sucked through a tube by a vacuum pump, and then the uterine lining is scraped with a metal instrument to ensure that no fragments were left behind. A second form of abortion is called "dilation and curettage", in which a small spoon-shaped metal utensil, a curette, is used to "scoop out" .....
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A Pro-Choice Argument
.... such as which contraceptives are available to them, where to buy them, and how to pay for birth control, which can be very expensive.(Small steps are being made to help with the latter problem. Recently, Maryland became the first state to offer insurance coverage for contraceptives.1) These women who are uninformed about the family planning options open to them are generally the same women who are from lower class societies, and therefore lack the money required for raising a child. Prenatal care is extremely expensive. Many doctor visits are required, which can quickly escalate in cost. Then there are the hospital fees for the .....
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Abortion
.... go back in time and change the past so that our present will be normal. As normal as a 15 year old girl should be. With problems relating to boys and meeting assignment deadlines, rather than the hard stuff. The kind of stuff a baby would otherwise provide to her with open arms.
Unfortunately there isn’t, so we were left with the option of ending the baby’s life. This course of action was in the best interest for everybody involved. The baby would’ve been better off, as a 15 year old girl is too young to properly take care of a baby. As well as concentrate full time with her studies.
So I ask you. Would a neglected .....
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Abortion
.... For example, Carrie is very promiscuous and finds out that she is pregnant, so she goes and has an abortion. Next time Carrie finds out that she has HIV, well she can't pay someone to get rid of her problem so she has to deal with it. Why shouldn't she have to deal with the fact of being pregnant? There are many other options to killing an innocent human: adoption or raising the child with the help of parents. However, some girls are forced to have an abortion.
No matter the reason someone has for an abortion, it is still cruel. Some women are forced to have an abortion either by their parents or their spouse. This cir .....
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Abortion
.... second most common method is called saline injection or salt poisoning and is used after sixteen weeks or pregnancy. The doctor inserts a long needle through the mother’s abdomen and injects a saline solution into the sac of amnionic fluid surrounding the fetus. The fetus is poisened by swallowing the salt and it’s skin completly burned away. It takes about an hour to kill the fetus. After the child dies, the mother goes into labor and expels the dead baby. Saline injections have been outlawed in some countries because of the risks to the mother, which can include lung and kidney if the salt finds its way into h .....
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