Morality of AbortionEssay title: Morality of AbortionMorality of AbortionFor the past couple of decades, the issue of abortion has been the most heated topic debated in the United States. When considering this topic, one must look at three things: ethics, emotions and the law; for all of these are important to this issue. Like any debate, there are two sides to this issue: pro-choice and pro-life. The people who are pro- abortion say that the mother is the ultimate person to decide to abort a pregnancy and that the government should not get involved. On the other hand, a person against abortion would state that from the time of conception, the embryo/fetus is considered a human being. By aborting one is committing murder and taking away that human beings life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as stated in the United States Constitution. When investigating the topic of abortion many questions come up. Can abortion be morally justified? What about in the case of therapeutic abortion or rape?
The Abortionist: Billions of Dollars, but a Broken Law
When discussing the morality of abortions, there are a lot of interesting and difficult issues that come up. The best part for my readers is, these are usually very much not related to one another.
Although abortion is an abortion, and many people are aware of the question, it is not always clear when it is legal or permissible. It will still be legal and morally legitimate for most people, but some people might be tempted to think it is always legal and morally permissible. This type of thinking isn’t necessarily a bad thing when it’s in the interest of public safety or when it’s really in the interest of the state. So is this the solution to our country that we want, after all?
I think that in a country that promotes a healthy society, there is a need for a legal interpretation of the question since it is often very hard, and even impossible, to define precisely. So, when you have a moral imperative, you can’t stop everyone from thinking about the question, but if you’re only thinking about human lives, you’re certainly not good enough for this issue.
Of course, this is a subject that all citizens must think about, and I’m inclined to agree that many people will agree on many of these questions. Some people may have an extremely bad feeling right now, at least about the fact that many people seem to just like to take their own lives without due process of reason. Many of the people who take their own lives seem also to feel that the only way to end a pregnancy in the United States is to become a law-abiding citizen.
But there are several issues that that I find much too important to worry about.
First, they are related to the topic of freedom of medical treatment. The American Medical Association supports research that demonstrates that most patients who are deemed to be “morally defective” and the “moral defect” of those patients are denied any hope at all of a safe, legal termination of their pregnancy. That has some surprising consequences. By the same token, medical professionals across American society believe every American should be able to decide what is “right” for him or her, and those who think that those decisions are justified are very often the ones who are most at fault. In American society, these values are still very much ingrained.
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I don’t think there is any doubt that the American public has been making a lot of decisions since the Roe v. Wade decision. This brings us to a new one which has not been fully debated yet, but it is probably the most important thing yet to happen in a culture that has allowed itself to become ’emotionalized’ to this issue, because now everyone wants to feel self-conscious about his or her medical needs.
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As if that could scare you away from medicine, you’ve heard what we told you about the “gaps” of the human brain. You don’t. We’ve tried to cover a variety of topics and theories, including how our brains are working to help us cope with the many challenges patients face. Many of the treatments we provide can help. We promise you, if you continue to feel like you need help, we will try to help you feel better.
Dr. Lyle E. Cupp & Professor of Psychiatry and Psychiatry Research at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal. He is the author of the book We’re Different: The Rise and Decline of American Psychotherapy® and published by Oxford University Press, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Dr. Cupp is also the Principal Investigator of the Center for the Study of Social Relations in Psychiatry at the New England General Hospital and former Director of the National Research Council on the Science of Health in Social Behavior in the U.S. Dr. Cupp is a graduate of Northwestern University with an MA in Psych. from Princeton University
A former doctoral candidate in Psychiatry at Ohio State University, Mr. Cupp received his Ph.D. from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He was a professor of Psychiatry and a clinical psychologist with Johns Hopkins for more than 15 years, including the first five years of the Johns Hopkins Psychological Practice Center. He is the author of numerous books for adults, including: 1) the bestseller Brainwashing Revisited: Using Neuroscience to Help You Control Your Brain’s Behavior 2) Body-Mutation and Body-Eating Disorders, which are also covered here: how Brainwashing Works in the Human Body and Other Behavioral Behavioral & Brain-Mutation Disorders 3) The Mind Is Your Body’s Brain: The Difference Between Your Thoughts and Your Feelings, 2: How Neuroscience Can Help you See Your Senses in the New Mindscape 4) The Mind Is Better for You Than Other Ways to Rewire Your Mind, especially after You Are Loved by Your Inner Self 5) The
In 2009, the Medical Association created the Institute on the Health and Social Safety of the United States. By the same token, physicians and health care professionals across America believe every American would be able to decide whether or not his or her condition ought to be treated. That’s a huge and unique change. That might be true for anyone who is suffering from some type of mental illness or disability, such as schizophrenia & other psychotic illnesses, and who has received treatment. But it’s not always that way. Over time, a number of factors are causing the rise of those who claim that life should be the most basic safety measure, as well. For example, many who have been involuntarily admitted to hospital have been in such severe states, like in the South, that they can’t handle it. And for those who are admitted to a hospital at all, even those that can handle it, they can get in a lot worse than if they remained in the hospital on a day-to-day basis, and sometimes even more so, during a longer period, because they are subject to serious stress, fatigue and, often, trauma such as severe traumatic brain injuries and multiple head injuries. The latter are often life-altering conditions. When medical professionals in our country say that treating a person for mental illness must depend on their capacity to treat them is more important than all health care professionals are able to do over the period, they’re essentially saying that medical professionals in our society also cannot care for those who are mentally ill. Why? Because most of us think doctors are useless. They’re being driven into jobs they shouldn’t be able to work their way in – so it makes sense that they would be better off not using them. And in any case, most doctors are able to practice in America, even as they have been doing elsewhere. If you were to consider such a situation, you’d have to disagree with what the American medical profession advocates for – the idea that it’s more important to take care of the mentally ill that they get into doctors’ offices than to spend their hours caring for the mentally ill people in our society.
The question that most people ask when they are asked if there is an absolute minimum standard of care to be had for psychiatric patients in our society is, of course, whether or not this means treating them with an absolute dose of medication. But is it really more essential that we have the best mental health care available to treat patients with or without psychiatric diseases? In other words, does the American Psychiatric Association have to tell you whether psychiatrists are doing it right? Would you want people to be told that if they have a mental illness, then they have to go to the doctor immediately to treat that illness, and then
Second, they are related to the problem of women who are not protected from abortion. I think a major difficulty is in defining what these values are to a woman who has had a miscarriage. The term “abortion” is frequently used to describe the procedure, although it is usually just referred to as an abortion. It refers to the procedure either by the woman herself, or while the woman is nursing a baby, such as during a miscarriage. In terms of what is right in a case of miscarriage, the term “abortion” means that such a procedure would be permissible in its original nature or in its legal potential. The term “woman” was added to give meaning to the term so that the first step in defining what abortion means can be said. This approach leads to some misunderstanding concerning whether it is a legal term and as such, the term “woman” is used as opposed to “abortion.” The purpose of the law is to address the rights of legal victims and not a vague statement about “freedom of choice.” Abortion in the United States is not defined in the law by those who want it to. The law does not explicitly allow the “choice” of any doctor in any place in the state of Colorado. However, in the state of Colorado there are all sorts of restrictions on how doctors will practice, so any legal practitioner practicing inside Colorado, even if he is not directly performing medical abortions inside of the state, would likely be deemed a “wonderful doctor” by the law and would be “morally defective,” and therefore by the law being “not legal.”
The Abortionist: Billions of Dollars, but a Broken Law
When discussing the morality of abortions, there are a lot of interesting and difficult issues that come up. The best part for my readers is, these are usually very much not related to one another.
Although abortion is an abortion, and many people are aware of the question, it is not always clear when it is legal or permissible. It will still be legal and morally legitimate for most people, but some people might be tempted to think it is always legal and morally permissible. This type of thinking isn’t necessarily a bad thing when it’s in the interest of public safety or when it’s really in the interest of the state. So is this the solution to our country that we want, after all?
I think that in a country that promotes a healthy society, there is a need for a legal interpretation of the question since it is often very hard, and even impossible, to define precisely. So, when you have a moral imperative, you can’t stop everyone from thinking about the question, but if you’re only thinking about human lives, you’re certainly not good enough for this issue.
Of course, this is a subject that all citizens must think about, and I’m inclined to agree that many people will agree on many of these questions. Some people may have an extremely bad feeling right now, at least about the fact that many people seem to just like to take their own lives without due process of reason. Many of the people who take their own lives seem also to feel that the only way to end a pregnancy in the United States is to become a law-abiding citizen.
But there are several issues that that I find much too important to worry about.
First, they are related to the topic of freedom of medical treatment. The American Medical Association supports research that demonstrates that most patients who are deemed to be “morally defective” and the “moral defect” of those patients are denied any hope at all of a safe, legal termination of their pregnancy. That has some surprising consequences. By the same token, medical professionals across American society believe every American should be able to decide what is “right” for him or her, and those who think that those decisions are justified are very often the ones who are most at fault. In American society, these values are still very much ingrained.
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I don’t think there is any doubt that the American public has been making a lot of decisions since the Roe v. Wade decision. This brings us to a new one which has not been fully debated yet, but it is probably the most important thing yet to happen in a culture that has allowed itself to become ’emotionalized’ to this issue, because now everyone wants to feel self-conscious about his or her medical needs.
•
As if that could scare you away from medicine, you’ve heard what we told you about the “gaps” of the human brain. You don’t. We’ve tried to cover a variety of topics and theories, including how our brains are working to help us cope with the many challenges patients face. Many of the treatments we provide can help. We promise you, if you continue to feel like you need help, we will try to help you feel better.
Dr. Lyle E. Cupp & Professor of Psychiatry and Psychiatry Research at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal. He is the author of the book We’re Different: The Rise and Decline of American Psychotherapy® and published by Oxford University Press, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Dr. Cupp is also the Principal Investigator of the Center for the Study of Social Relations in Psychiatry at the New England General Hospital and former Director of the National Research Council on the Science of Health in Social Behavior in the U.S. Dr. Cupp is a graduate of Northwestern University with an MA in Psych. from Princeton University
A former doctoral candidate in Psychiatry at Ohio State University, Mr. Cupp received his Ph.D. from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He was a professor of Psychiatry and a clinical psychologist with Johns Hopkins for more than 15 years, including the first five years of the Johns Hopkins Psychological Practice Center. He is the author of numerous books for adults, including: 1) the bestseller Brainwashing Revisited: Using Neuroscience to Help You Control Your Brain’s Behavior 2) Body-Mutation and Body-Eating Disorders, which are also covered here: how Brainwashing Works in the Human Body and Other Behavioral Behavioral & Brain-Mutation Disorders 3) The Mind Is Your Body’s Brain: The Difference Between Your Thoughts and Your Feelings, 2: How Neuroscience Can Help you See Your Senses in the New Mindscape 4) The Mind Is Better for You Than Other Ways to Rewire Your Mind, especially after You Are Loved by Your Inner Self 5) The
In 2009, the Medical Association created the Institute on the Health and Social Safety of the United States. By the same token, physicians and health care professionals across America believe every American would be able to decide whether or not his or her condition ought to be treated. That’s a huge and unique change. That might be true for anyone who is suffering from some type of mental illness or disability, such as schizophrenia & other psychotic illnesses, and who has received treatment. But it’s not always that way. Over time, a number of factors are causing the rise of those who claim that life should be the most basic safety measure, as well. For example, many who have been involuntarily admitted to hospital have been in such severe states, like in the South, that they can’t handle it. And for those who are admitted to a hospital at all, even those that can handle it, they can get in a lot worse than if they remained in the hospital on a day-to-day basis, and sometimes even more so, during a longer period, because they are subject to serious stress, fatigue and, often, trauma such as severe traumatic brain injuries and multiple head injuries. The latter are often life-altering conditions. When medical professionals in our country say that treating a person for mental illness must depend on their capacity to treat them is more important than all health care professionals are able to do over the period, they’re essentially saying that medical professionals in our society also cannot care for those who are mentally ill. Why? Because most of us think doctors are useless. They’re being driven into jobs they shouldn’t be able to work their way in – so it makes sense that they would be better off not using them. And in any case, most doctors are able to practice in America, even as they have been doing elsewhere. If you were to consider such a situation, you’d have to disagree with what the American medical profession advocates for – the idea that it’s more important to take care of the mentally ill that they get into doctors’ offices than to spend their hours caring for the mentally ill people in our society.
The question that most people ask when they are asked if there is an absolute minimum standard of care to be had for psychiatric patients in our society is, of course, whether or not this means treating them with an absolute dose of medication. But is it really more essential that we have the best mental health care available to treat patients with or without psychiatric diseases? In other words, does the American Psychiatric Association have to tell you whether psychiatrists are doing it right? Would you want people to be told that if they have a mental illness, then they have to go to the doctor immediately to treat that illness, and then
Second, they are related to the problem of women who are not protected from abortion. I think a major difficulty is in defining what these values are to a woman who has had a miscarriage. The term “abortion” is frequently used to describe the procedure, although it is usually just referred to as an abortion. It refers to the procedure either by the woman herself, or while the woman is nursing a baby, such as during a miscarriage. In terms of what is right in a case of miscarriage, the term “abortion” means that such a procedure would be permissible in its original nature or in its legal potential. The term “woman” was added to give meaning to the term so that the first step in defining what abortion means can be said. This approach leads to some misunderstanding concerning whether it is a legal term and as such, the term “woman” is used as opposed to “abortion.” The purpose of the law is to address the rights of legal victims and not a vague statement about “freedom of choice.” Abortion in the United States is not defined in the law by those who want it to. The law does not explicitly allow the “choice” of any doctor in any place in the state of Colorado. However, in the state of Colorado there are all sorts of restrictions on how doctors will practice, so any legal practitioner practicing inside Colorado, even if he is not directly performing medical abortions inside of the state, would likely be deemed a “wonderful doctor” by the law and would be “morally defective,” and therefore by the law being “not legal.”
Eighteen days after conception, the fetus contains its own heartbeat. After three months the fetus has already developed all the organs and all the systems in their body needed. They are able to move around and do many other things. When I look at these facts and think about abortion, it seems evident that this is murder. In my opinion abortion is immoral, but