COMMENTS

  1. Women's social and emotional experiences with abortion

    research, abortion stigma is a relatively "under-researched and under-theorized" field (Norris et al., 2011, p. S49). The purpose of this study is to expand the field of abortion stigma research by exploring whether women who have an abortion(s) internalize stigma significantly more than women who have not had an abortion.

  2. PDF ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES

    Abstract. Access to ab. rtion in the United States is becoming increasingly determined by the statelegislatures. estrictive abortion laws at the state level that impose onerous requirements o. providersand restrict wo. session saw an unprecedented level of such laws being passed by state lawmakers committed to.

  3. PDF A Quantitative Analysis of Reproductive Rights and Right to Life

    Despite signi cant political and legislative action in the recent past, abortion remains one of America's most divisive and partisan issues. This thesis examines the mission statements of reproductive rights and right to life advocacy groups. Mission state-ments represent what an organization is and why it exists. This paper will aim to

  4. PDF Honors Thesis-2.pdf

    This thesis examines abortion law in the United States from the late eighteenth century up to present day. Beyond merely looking at the legal aspects of restricting abortion, it explores the sentiments behind the anti-abortion campaign that took hold in the late nineteenth century as states around the country criminalized the practice.

  5. PDF What Telemedicine Could Mean for Future Abortion Care in The United States

    the US, it. teleabortion addresses growing problems with abortion care in the US, but its enthusiastic adoption. drop of rising abortion restrictions may hav. undesirable consequences forwomen's health and reproductive liberties. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the place of teleabortion in the futu.

  6. PDF Women's Rights and Unborn Life: The Development of Pro-Choice and Pro

    Wade decision legalized abortion in the Unites States, the debate over abortion has been a prominent feature of the American political landscape. While much research has investigated the difference between pro-choice and pro-life activists' political and moral beliefs, this thesis investigates the role these activists' childhood

  7. PDF Abstract

    Abortion Funds get calls from women all over the U.S.- women in prison, young women, women who have been raped, "undocumented" women, and women with few eco- nomic resources. The organization repeatedly hears of the desperation of girls and women like the 1 7-year-old with one child who drank a bottle of rubbing alcohol to cause a mis- ...

  8. The Ethical Dilemma of Abortion

    2005). Whether or not abortion is moral or justifiable is a very contro-versial dilemma and issue. The two opposing arguments will be dis-cussed by a purely comparative method. The first position is called the pro-life argument and is against allowing abortion, whereas the second argument, called the pro-choice argument, supports allowing ...

  9. PDF Unsafe Abortion: Violation of Women'S Right to Reproductive and Sexual

    Women have been taking resort to abortion since ages. However, even today stringent abortion law andor hurdles in access to safe and affordable abortion services have led them to take resort to unsafe abortion practices resulting in high matemal rnortality rates and life long complications violating their reproductive and sexual rights. This thesis

  10. Access to Abortion: The Intersection of 'Who You Are' and 'Where You Live'

    Abstract. Access to reproductive health services, including abortion services, is essential to the health of women and families. While existing literature has documented the influence of demographic factors ('who you are') on access to abortion in the United States, exploration of the influence of place of residence ('where you live ...

  11. PDF The effect of abortion legalization on fertility, marriage and long

    abortion access at the state level as a natural experiment to analyze the short-term effects of abortion legalization on fertility behavior. These papers typically use changes across US states on Medicaid abortion funding restrictions (Levine et al. 1996, Klerman 1999), on parental consent laws (Haas-Wilson 1996) or on the geographical distance to

  12. Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University

    Unsafe Abortion, Its Determinants and Associated Factors: The Case of Malawi. A Systematic Literature Review. Alexander Mkulichi ... This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Public Health at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Public Health Theses by an authorized ...

  13. PDF Understanding unsafe abortions among young women in Zimbabwe: A Socio

    As a result, there has been a rise in unsafe abortions among the young women in Zimbabwe (Johnson et. al 2002). Partly, this is because of two reasons. Firstly, there seem to be lack of recognition for reproductive health rights. Secondly, there seem to be lack of a human rights perspective on abortion in Zimbabwe.

  14. (PDF) Examining Public Opinion about Abortion: A Mixed‐Methods

    Using a mixed‐methods systematic review, we analyze and critique the findings from 116 journal articles that have examined attitudes about abortion between 2001 and 2016.

  15. A research on abortion: ethics, legislation and socio-medical outcomes

    The analysis of abortion by means of medical and social documents. Abortion means a pregnancy interruption "before the fetus is viable" [] or "before the fetus is able to live independently in the extrauterine environment, usually before the 20 th week of pregnancy" [].]. "Clinical miscarriage is both a common and distressing complication of early pregnancy with many etiological ...

  16. Global Consequences of Unsafe Abortion

    Incidence of mortality. An estimated 70,000 women died as a result of unsafe abortions in 2005, worldwide, according to the most recent published estimate [4]. More than half of deaths resulting from unsafe abor-tions occur in Sub-Saharan Africa (~38,000) and approximately a third in South Central Asia (~24,000).

  17. (PDF) Abortion final thesis

    This figure above shows the respondents number of children that 34 of the respondents has no children so it's 42.5% and 14 of the respondents have a children b/w 1-3 so it's 17.5% of the ...

  18. PDF Unwanted Pregnancy and Induced Abortion Among

    anted pregnancy, 83% (P =0.001) and induced abortion with the proportion of 83% (P =0.004).Conclusion: The prevalence of unwanted pregnancy and induc. d abortion were high, and most of the induced abortion was the result of unwanted pregnancy. There was low utilization of contraceptives among female youths but its a.

  19. (PDF) Abortion and ethical considerations: Ethical aspects and

    The ethical principles that govern human behavior and offer insights on abortion include. autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. Autonomy refers to the right to make one's own ...

  20. PDF Abortion: A Concept Analysis

    legality of abortion often hold that a woman has a right to make decisions about her own body (Mahowald, 2017). In many places where abortion is illegal or carries a heavy social stigma, medical reporting of abortion is not reliable. The reasons why women have abortion are diverse and vary across the world. Some of the most

  21. PDF A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson (1971)

    A Defense of Abortionby Judith Jarvis Thomson (1971)Most opposition to abortion relies on the premise that the fetus is a. human being, a person, from the moment of conception. The premise is argued for, but, as I think, ot well. Take, for example, the most common argument. We are asked to notice that the development of a human being from ...

  22. PDF Methodologies for Estimating Abortion Incidence and Abortion-Related

    praisal of the state of abortion estimation methodology today. Many estimation approaches of both incidence and morbidity have been developed for use in contexts where abortion is legally restricted, some are used mainly where abortion is legally permitted under broad circumstances, and some are relevant in both contexts. As such, the vol-

  23. Dissertations / Theses: 'Right to abortion'

    Video (online) Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Right to abortion.'. Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard ...