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Abortion
Day 1 -fertilization
Day 2-3- ovum passes through the fallopian tube Day 7-10 -Blastocyst reaches the uterus
Week 2- Embryo becomes embedded in uterine wall
Week’s 6-8- Organ systems and structural features begin and develop
Week 6- 8 -Brain waves: embryo is 1’ long
Week 12-16-- Quickening fetus is about 51/2 inches long
Week20-28- viability –live apart from the mother
Week 40 -Birth
Methods of abortion
1) Induced Morning after pill RU 486 (mifepristone) Uterine or vacuum aspiration, dilation and curettage (d&c)
Induced Abortion Saline Solution Postaglandin drugs Hysteotomy Spontaneous “miscarriages”
Reasons women choose abortion 74% having a child would dramatically change their lives. Their ability to continue with school, work or care for others 73% could not afford children 38% they were finished having children 48% did not want to be single mothers
Abortions
About 43 million abortions each year around the world 20 million of these are termed unsafe the vast majority in countries where abortions is illegal or highly restricted the world health organizayion states that every 8 minutes a woman in a developing country dies of complications of an unsafe abortion china(page 100)
Abortion and the law Abortion: not always condemned nor illegal 20thC. Most states illegal except in cases like rape or incest or when the pregnant woman’s life or health is threatened state has an interest in the “potential life”
Roe vs Wade decision 1973: no state may prohibit abortion before the time of fetal viability and a fundamental “right to privacy” was grounded in the constitution 1) from the end of the first trimester on states could make laws to ensure the medical safety of the aborition procedures 2) before viability (the sixth month) the aborition decision is up to the pregnant women and her doctor 3) From time of viability on, states prohibit abortion except if the life of the woman is endangered
State
Day 1 -fertilization
Day 2-3- ovum passes through the fallopian tube Day 7-10 -Blastocyst reaches the uterus
Week 2- Embryo becomes embedded in uterine wall
Week’s 6-8- Organ systems and structural features begin and develop
Week 6- 8 -Brain waves: embryo is 1’ long
Week 12-16-- Quickening fetus is about 51/2 inches long
Week20-28- viability –live apart from the mother
Week 40 -Birth
Methods of abortion
1) Induced Morning after pill RU 486 (mifepristone) Uterine or vacuum aspiration, dilation and curettage (d&c)
Induced Abortion Saline Solution Postaglandin drugs Hysteotomy Spontaneous “miscarriages”
Reasons women choose abortion 74% having a child would dramatically change their lives. Their ability to continue with school, work or care for others 73% could not afford children 38% they were finished having children 48% did not want to be single mothers
Abortions
About 43 million abortions each year around the world 20 million of these are termed unsafe the vast majority in countries where abortions is illegal or highly restricted the world health organizayion states that every 8 minutes a woman in a developing country dies of complications of an unsafe abortion china(page 100)
Abortion and the law Abortion: not always condemned nor illegal 20thC. Most states illegal except in cases like rape or incest or when the pregnant woman’s life or health is threatened state has an interest in the “potential life”
Roe vs Wade decision 1973: no state may prohibit abortion before the time of fetal viability and a fundamental “right to privacy” was grounded in the constitution 1) from the end of the first trimester on states could make laws to ensure the medical safety of the aborition procedures 2) before viability (the sixth month) the aborition decision is up to the pregnant women and her doctor 3) From time of viability on, states prohibit abortion except if the life of the woman is endangered
State