The word “abortion” is associated with spontaneous pregnancy loss as well as both legal and illegal termination of pregnancy. This has been unhelpful in the discussion of this topic and led to confusion from the use of different terms for the same process. The term “abortion” may be used...
Selective abortion, also known as selective reduction, refers to choosing to abort a fetus, typically in a multi-fetal pregnancy, to decrease the health risks to the mother in carrying and giving birth to more than one or two babies, and also to decrease the risk of complications to the re...
Legal abortion presupposes the consent of the pregnant woman to the interruption of the pregnancy. If the abortion is done without her consent, the offense is deemed premeditated grave bodily injury. The percentage of nonhospital abortions in the USSR after removal of the ban on abortions fell ...
The Maputo Protocol is also the only international instrument that specifically recognizes access to safe, legal abortion as a woman’s human right. Under Article 14 (2) (c), State Parties agree to “protect the reproductive rights of women by authorizing medical abortion in cases of sexual ...
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And a 2021 Associated Press poll found that just 8 percent of respondents believe that third-trimester abortions should be legal in all cases.” A Defense of Legacy Admissions, the Surprising Engine of Meritocracy (Teddy Ganea, Stanford Review): “The purpose of college admissions isn’t to ...
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As for the abortion ballot measures, six of the ten that were voted on will go into effect: AZ, CO, MD, MO, MT, and NY. In Nevada, a second vote in the 2026 elections is required for passage. In FL, SD and NE the pro-life movement defeated the radical pro-abortion amendments, ...
Anyone who wants to understand how abortion has been treated historically in the western legal tradition must first come to terms with two quite different but interrelated historical trajectories. On one hand, there is the ancient Judeo-Christian condemnation of prenatal homicide as a wrong warranting...