how to successfully ban abortion, while still leaving room for the raped and abused to get abortion?

Question

Law class, have to make my own law and make it clear.

answers should be based purely on fact not morals or religion

this is a Fu*king class assignment!

I'm just trying to get an A!!! GOD

Answer 1

I'm not for or against abortion, but, ethically... You really can't say that you're against abortion if you don't want the raped or abused to have to follow the law too.

The entire argument against abortion derives from saying that the baby is a human being and it is murder... Well, when the abused or raped are going to have a baby, it's not the babies fault either... So... That's going to be a tough question...

You could argue that there was no concentual agreement to have sex, therefore neither parent has an obligation to the baby, and if the abortion in these cases is done with the morning after pill or similar, the baby would not be formed enough to be considered to have a concious.

If someone was raped, they should stop the baby from starting to form with the morning after pill anyway, instead of letting it go as far as to need an abortion.

Your law should state that if you were raped, and went to the police station for a "rape kit," part of that rape kit should be a morning after pill.

Answer 2

The arguement for abortion is pretty straight and narrow, as soon as you throw out all the religion.

Basically this fictional law will state that by having an abortion you are killing a child, which is a person. So this law will have to state that an unborn fetus is considered a child and not, not an unborn child. Meaning that once conception has taken place and after a pregnancy test, which can be shown by doctors and proved to be a child in its formings. You can state that those "formings" are now considered to be a "child," even though it is unborn it is still human. By which you can state that aborting it would cause murder. Obvious this is fictional and none of this will actually fly.

You can add that there is a subsection of the law which states that unless pregnancy is caused by unwanted circumstances or illegal circumstances (those which break other laws), IE: rape, incest.

Answer 3

Ooohhhh, that'd be tough. If you say that abortion is allowed for rape victims, how would you prove that a patient is a rape/sexual abuse victim? Would there have to be official charges filed for the abortion to be allowed? Seems like that would encourage false charges, and also might predispose juries to doubt the accounts of the victims.

Answer 4

I agree but it won't happen. Early-term surgical abortion is a simple procedure. When performed before the 16th week by competent doctors or, in some states, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and physician assistants it is safer than childbirth. Abortion methods, like most surgical procedures, carry a small risk of potentially serious complications. These risks include: a perforated uterus, perforated bowel or bladder, septic shock, sterility, and death. The risk of complications can increase depending on how far pregnancy has progressed, but remains less than complications that may occur from carrying pregnancy to term. Assessing the risks of induced abortion depends on a number of factors. First, there are relative health risks of induced abortion and pregnancy, which are both affected by wide variation in the quality of health services in different societies and among different socio-economic groups, a lack of uniform definitions of terms, and difficulties in patient follow-up and after-care. The degree of risk is also dependent upon the skill and experience of the practitioner; maternal age, health, and parity; gestational age; pre-existing conditions; methods and instruments used; medications used; the skill and experience of those assisting the practitioner; and the quality of recovery and follow-up care. In the United Kingdom, the number of deaths directly due to legal abortion between the years of 1991 and 1993 was 5, compared to 3 deaths following spontaneous miscarriage and 8 deaths caused by ectopic pregnancy during the same time frame. In the United States, during the year 1999, there were 4 deaths due to legal abortion, 10 due to miscarriage, and 525 due to pregnancy-related reasons. Some practitioners advocate using minimal anaesthesia so the patient can alert them to possible complications. Others recommend general anaesthesia, to prevent patient movement, which might cause a perforation. General anaesthesia carries its own risks, including death, which is why public health officials recommend against its routine use. Dilation of the cervix carries the risk of cervical tears or perforations, including small tears that might not be apparent and might cause cervical incompetence in future pregnancies. Most practitioners recommend using the smallest possible dilators, and using osmotic rather than mechanical dilators after the first trimester. Instruments that are placed within the uterus can, on rare occasions, cause perforation or laceration of the uterus, and damage structures surrounding the uterus. Laceration or perforation of the uterus or cervix can, again on rare occasions, lead to more serious complications. Incomplete emptying of the uterus can cause hemorrhage and infection. Use of ultrasound verification of the location and duration of the pregnancy prior to abortion, with immediate follow-up of patients reporting continuing pregnancy symptoms after the procedure, will virtually eliminate this risk. The sooner a complication is noted and properly treated, the lower the risk of permanent injury or death. In rare cases, abortion will be unsuccessful and pregnancy will continue. An unsuccessful abortion can result in delivery of a live neonate, or infant. This, termed a failed abortion, is very rare and can only occur late in pregnancy. Some doctors have voiced concerns about the ethical and legal ramifications of letting the neonate die. As a result, recent investigations have been launched in the United Kingdom by the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, in order to determine how widespread the problem is and what an ethical response in the treatment of the infant might be. Unsafe abortion methods (e.g. use of certain drugs, herbs, or insertion of non-surgical objects into the uterus) are potentially dangerous, carrying a significantly elevated risk for permanent injury or death, as compared to abortions done by physicians.This won't become a law for many years because of its stability.

Answer 5

That's the problem. Laws and lawyers getting involved in a personal decision that should be left to the afflicted parties and their physicians! It is NOT possible to write a law to specify this without defining "rape" and "abuse". While "rape" can be fairly well defined, how exactly will you define "abuse"? In other words, any woman can simply state she was abused and as a result wishes to terminate an unwanted pregancy - so why bother with another unenforceable law? All abortion should be "legal". All babies deserve to be born into a world where they will be cared for, loved and desired by their parents.

Answer 6

I don't think it should be at all. Its not fair that you only get to abort a baby if you were raped or abused. What about the women who cant afford to take care of a baby or just doesn't want one. This law that you want to create would cause so many problems and a lot of protest.

Answer 7

in the real world, a law like that probably wouldn't pass or even work. you could write the law that prohibited abortion, but one could petition the court to allow it.

Answer 8

The law already exists. It's in the Bible. "Thou Shalt Not Kill". Abortion is a natural process of a woman's body in which the child is aborted due to problems with the child and/or the mother. God has no problem with natural abortions. He has a big problem with man-made abortions. As cruel as it sounds, God left no leeway for rapes or unplanned pregnancies. Murder is murder. Period.

Answer 9

ethical problem with the law you are about to create (just something to get you ready for the professor) - will creating such a law cause more false accusations of rape.

Answer 10

first you have to make a law making a fetus a human. the same law would make menstruation and masturbation murder.

sorry. i'm just playing around. i undersrtood to begin with what you were asking and why. you have a tough paper to write,good luck.