Sentences with phrase «medical abortions in»

The study is expected to form the basis of new international recommendations from WHO and a change in clinical practice regarding medical abortions in Sweden and globally,» said Dr. Gemzell Danielsson.

«To call this an at - home abortion is deceptive,» Raymond, Klein, and Dumble noted about medical abortions in general, «since most treatment transpires in the clinic, hospital, or office, and is extremely medicalized.»

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«The mortality rate decreases radically when abortion is legalized, because women seek abortions in a safe, medical environment,» said Barroso.

Just as it is OK for a doctor to perform an operation or a medical procedure that has a good chance of causing an abortion in a pregnant woman.

I've always been under the impression that the «conservative» view of abortion is that it should NOT be allowed EXCEPT in cases of rape, incest, or when competent medical authorities determine that the health and safety of the mother and / or child is at serious risk (but not justifying the abortion of a child simply for having a mental or physical disability).

Leaving aside the fact that nearly twenty - five years later legalized abortion still remains our most pressing legal and social issue, the claim that the issue of abortion could be medicalized turns out to be wrong in a way that we should have been able to predict long before: the medical profession has for the most part declined to join the partnership.

Abortion, being a medical procedure, can be done in an environment where the woman will have the hgihest chance of a quick and safe procedure (for her at least).

Look it up for yourself: the GOP has cut school lunch programs, Aid to dependent children, Planned Parenthood health care which provides medical care for expectant mothers (under the guise that they perform a limited number of abortions annually), Medicare programs which provides health care to the children who were born in the past because they weren't aborted, WIC which provides food to Women, Infants and Children... one could go on.

Some thoughtful analysts, including some pro-life advocates, have suggested that the legal battle to end abortion has at last ended in defeat with this report of an apparently effective and safe medical form of abortion.

Richard Hausknecht, the author of the article in the New England Journal of Medicine, acknowledged that the «abortion cocktail» was indeed an experiment when he stated in his report that «the protocol [of the experiment] was approved by the investigative review board of the Mount Sinai Medical Center.»

These drugs were used primarily to treat cancer but they were also reasonably effective in producing medical abortion, at least up to eight weeks gestation.

The legal battle to ban abortion, however, is not by any means defeated with this report of a medical abortifacient, and it may in fact be helped.

Even Anna Glazier, a health expert and a strong proponent of greater access to the morning - after pill, stated in early 2006 in an editorial in the British Medical Journal that greater access to emergency birth control has failed to cut pregnancy and abortion rates.

truthfollower01, abortion is a legal medical procedure in most civilized countries.

Your can still find abortion to be horrible, yet be in favor of others having the choice of what medical treatment to receive.

So the «pro-lifers» are against abortion as a legally medical form of «murder», but then vote for politicians in our USA who promote war and all kinds of both domestic and foreign policies that lead to the death of millions of already born humans.

«Every year, about 19 - 20 million abortions are done by individuals without the requisite skills, or in environments below minimum medical standards, or both.

A vote by members of the British Medical Association (BMA) in favour of decriminalising abortion «defies common sense», according to the Christian Medical Fellowship.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

But Judge Posner incisively points out that «public support for the [partial - birth abortion bans] was [in part] based... on sheer ignorance of the medical realities of late - term abortion.

They would require full participation in assisted suicide, abortion, and indeed any putative «medical service» authorized by the government.

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

First: abortion performed due to r ape and health reasons of the mother TOTAL less than 5 % Second: The medical profession today makes evaluations balancing the rights of mom and child in problem pregnancies where abortion is not a legal option.

Leaving aside for the moment the prochoice arguments in favor of the abortion liberty, it is clear that great science - based industries, trajectories of medical experimentation, and perhaps the profession of bioethics itself rest in large part upon the settlement articulated in Roe v. Wade and related decisions.

What is to keep states from requiring medical students to learn to perform abortions as a condition to becoming licensed to practice medicine, from requiring medical schools to offer training in abortion, or from requiring public employees to subsidize abortion through health insurance?

The Journal of Medical Ethics has an entire symposium on infanticide in its latest issue, in which one can see scholars at prominent institutions reasoning (plausibly, alas) that if the unborn child can be licitly aborted, then «after - birth abortion» can be permitted as well.

If he knowingly commits a post-24 weeks abortion, based on such stringent life and health criteria, the doctor must certify his judgment about the threat in writing; acquire the concurrence of a second doctor in that judgment based on a «separate personal medical examination» of the woman; perform the abortion in a hospital; employ procedures designed to maximize the unborn child's chances to survive; and have a second physician present, ready to consider any surviving child his primary patient.

If the client is getting on birth control make this the focus of the visit and put a note in the chief complaints that the client had a surgical or medical abortion «x» weeks ago.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Now, though, the routinisation of genetic screening has led to a situation in which many couples report feeling pressure, even from the medical profession, to do exactly what used to be forbidden: having an abortion.

I can not even imagine myself or anyone I know participating in these late abortions, especially when they are done by the mother for convenience, and the medical workers for money.

A vote by members of the British Medical Association (BMA) in favour of decriminalising abortion «defies... More

August 2011 — The Obama administration releases its new health care rules that override religious conscience protections for medical workers, in the areas of abortion and contraception.

Baroness Jane Campbell of Surbiton (disability rights activist, and former Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission), Baroness Grey - Thompson (former Gold - medal paralympian), Lady Finlay of Llandaff (leading palliative care specialist and President of the British Medical Association), and Lord Carlisle of Berriew (one of the UK's top QCs and legal experts) are all either atheist or agnostic, and tend to be in favour of legalised abortion.

Even the Democratic Party in 2012 removed the «rare» qualifier from their platform, moved by activists who want to erase any sense that abortion should be minimized any more than another medical procedure.

Louise: a woman in her late 40s who thought her childbearing years were over but got pregnant, and in light of extreme medical complications had an abortion, an act for which she later gave thanks to God.

The Stenberg dissenters repeatedly cited and quoted Justice O'Connor's abortion opinions from the 1980s, in which she had criticized the Court for operating as «the nation's ex officio medical board with powers to approve or disapprove medical and operative practices and standards throughout the United States.»

Reflecting on the disordered state of medical oaths in the era of abortion, the Value of Life Committee in early 1995 sent a letter of inquiry to a group of prominent scholars and physicians, including distinguished authors of texts on medical ethics.

With this ammunition, Justice Blackmun was able, in his Roe v. Wade decision, to explain away as a meaningless historical accident the medical profession's traditional prohibition against doctors performing abortions: «This it seems to us is a satisfactory explanation of the Hippocratic Oath's apparent rigidity.

Catholic organizations have no problem paying non-Catholics to work for them and those non-Catholic's can take that money that was paid to them and pay for an abortion, go gambling in Vegas, buy medical marijuana, buy condoms or even visit a Nevada «Chicken Ranch» if they want to, all funded by the Catholic Church, but don't you dare tell the Church they have to pay into a healthcare system where some employee's may choose to use those health benefits to pay for contraceptives?

The symptoms are so similar that an online abortion group which sells pills to women in pro-life countries instructs women who suffer complications: «If you live in a place where abortion is a crime and you don't have a doctor you trust, you can still access medical care.

«We affirm that there are no medical circumstances justifying direct abortion, that is, no circumstances in which the life of a mother may only be saved by directly terminating the life of her unborn child.»

It was Dr Walley, who has witnessed first - hand the horror of young mothers dying for want of appropriate medical facilities, who suggested that to the Seven Sorrows of Mary an eighth sorrow should be added: the suffering of thousands of women who die giving birth to their babies and the millions who, in despair, turn to abortion.

Besides condemning abortion and euthanasia as attacks on human life, Evangelium Vitae addresses other hotly debated issues in medical ethics that implicate the value and dignity of human life.

In particular it notes General Recommendation No. 24 which «established that the criminalization of medical practices which only apply to women, like abortion, constitute a violation of equal rights,» (6.5.2) and the Committee's 1999 comments to Colombia calling their abortion laws a violation of Article 12.

For MEDICAL SCIENCE then a pregnancy doesn't begin until implantation therefore NO female hormonal birth control interferes AFTER implantation or in other words cause an abortion.

Medical control had become a legal fiction in a world where 99 per cent of those seeking abortions got them.

The Court's own case law shows that in order to maintain the abortion right at the level of fundamental law, many other sectors of the states» legal order, at both statutory and common law, need to be altered: family law, marriage law, laws regulating the medical profession, and, as we now see with the recent circuit court decisions, criminal laws prohibiting private use of lethal force.

Based on what various family members and friends in the medical profession who deal with pregnant young women have told me, many pregnant out - of - wedlock young women face tremendous pressure from both their parents (including the good religious folks) and the guy who got them pregnant to have an abortion.

The discussion highlighted the need for a substantive parliamentary debate on the current abortion legislation since medical science and practice is raising serious questions over when the foetus becomes viable outside the womb, the current twenty - four week limit for «social» abortion and the growing number of doctors in the UK who are refusing to perform abortions because of the aforementioned.