SEXUAL MORALITY: IS CONSENT ENOUGH? 201 IGOR PRIMORATZ SEXUAL MORALITY: IS CONSENT ENOUGH? ABSTRACT. The liberal view that valid consent is sufficient for a sex act to be morally legitimate is challenged by three major philosophies of sex: the Catholic view of sex as ordained for procreation and properly confined to marriage‚ the romantic view of sex as bound up with love‚ and the radical feminist analysis of sex in our society as part and parcel of the domination of women by men. I take a critical
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In the article by Martindale‚ Chambers‚ and Thompson‚ we learn that informed consent and confidentiality. A person should be informed of their right to confidentiality and the treatment they are consenting to in the therapeutic relationship. This study is significantly important because we are shown that there has been not very much previous research done on how well we manage consent‚ how informed the patient is‚ how honest they are‚ and what they actually know about the policies of the provider
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Abortion Since Roe V.Wade‚ in 1973‚ over 48 million choices have been made that have resulted in the deaths of unborn children. Currently abortion worldwide kills more people every 2 months than the Holocaust did in 12 years. The 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade made it possible for women to get safe‚ legal abortions from well-trained medical practitioners. This led to dramatic decreases in pregnancy-related injury and death. The US Supreme Court then introduced the ‘right-to-privacy’
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How would you feel if someone decided that you should never get a chance at life? It is horribly that many people are killing their own babies through abortion. In statistics that showed over 1.3 million abortions are done yearly in the USA and 43 million worldwide has been the steady number for several years now (Statistics 1). Abortion is murder of an innocent unborn baby. People think that when you get pregnant‚ the baby isn’t really anything until a certain point in the pregnancy. Whatever
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Is Abortion Right? Or Is It Wrong? There is a huge subject debate on the word abortion which is still going on today because it is such a controversial topic that some states are continuing to change the law‚ so that abortion can once again be illegal. However‚ throughout the world‚ there are about 115‚000 abortions going on every day and some people are fine with it. An abortion is when a woman decides to kill her unborn child for whatever her reason(s) is/are. That is why many people consider
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over an issue like abortion‚ it is important to look simply at the fact of its existence in the United States. According to studies released in 2005 by the Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH) and The Guttmacher Institute‚ there were 1.29 million abortions performed in this country. Research by the same group shows that in 1994‚ approximately half of all pregnancies in the United States were unintended‚ with only about half of those actually ending in abortion. In comparison to other
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Abortion a) Compare the ways in which Natural law and Utilitarianism might be applied to abortion. (25 marks) b) “A religious believer should never have an abortion.” Discuss (10 marks) a) Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy and in today’s society is viewed as a very controversial ethical issue due to the conflicting moral standpoints. Natural Law was first proposed by Aristotle but championed by Aquinas (1225 – 74) and Utilitarianism by Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th
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Laws against abortion kill women.*To prohibit abortions does not stop them. When women feel it is absolutely necessary‚ they will choose to have abortions‚ even in secret‚ without medical care‚ in dangerous circumstances. In the two decades before abortion was legal in the U.S.‚ it’s been estimated that nearly a million women per year sought out illegal abortions. Thousands died. Tens of thousands were mutilated. All were forced to behave as if they were criminals.* 2. Legal abortions protect women’s
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“Abortion” Thesis: Unintended pregnancies and induced abortions are common and occur among women of all social and economic groups. Where the abortion rate is high‚ it likely reflects that levels of contraceptive use are not sufficient to meet the fertility desires and family planning needs of women and couples. A. I am against abortion being legal because abortion has received considerable attention‚ and its legality and availability have often generated controversy. 1. More people
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misdoing? From parental and peer neglect the gentle creature quickly became a monster to his tormentors. The neglect that frankenstein put his creation through triggered his monstrous behaviour. The creature was completely
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