Brief Summary: History Of Abortion In The United States
Abortion
History of Abortion
By Tom DeVito
Human Sexuality 267
11/4/2013
Abstract
This paper will describe the history of abortion starting with back in the ancient Hebrews, Romans, English, and colonial America. Then it will look at the court case Roe vs. Wade and see how it has led to Americans opinion on abortion today. Finally it will look at America today on how women can now get an abortion and the new laws being put in to stricken the reason and ways for American women to have an abortion.
Abortion is defined as term “referred to the termination of a pregnancy before the embryo or fetus is capable of surviving outside the womb”. For …show more content…
The ancient Hebrews had laws against abortion, but only if the mother’s life was a risk would they permit an abortion to happen. Under Roman rule, abortion was permitted, as well as infanticide. The shriveled remains of exposed babies could be found all across the countryside and at the bottom of cliffs throughout the Roman Empire. The early Christian church generally opposed abortion. From about the 1300s to the 1800s, abortion before animation, Christian theologians defined animation as the point at which a fetus received a soul. According to church teachings, animation occurred between forty to eighty days after conception, became a generally accepted practice in Europe, if the pregnancy endangered the life of the mother. If an abortion was performed before animation for a less serious reason, many theologians saw it as wrong but not homicide. These practices came over to the American colonies with the pilgrims and the …show more content…
They can now get drugs that will do it, such as RU-486(mifepristone). This induces an early abortion by blocking the effects of the hormone progesterone which stimulates proliferation of the endometruim allowing the implantation and development of the placenta. The next thing women can do to have an abortion is to have an intra-amniotic infusion, this is an abortion in the second trimester in which a substance is injected into the amniotic sac to induce premature labor. Finally there can be dilation and evacuation (D&E) or a dilation and curettage (D&C). D&C is an operation in which the cervix is dilated and the uterine contents are gently scraped away. D&E is an abortion in which the cervix is dilated prior to vacuum aspiration. All of these operations or drug taking is done before the third trimester of the pregnancy. This is along way from cutting someone open and retrieving the child. Regardless of how one feels about abortion the history of it is fascinating dating about to ancient times where they had cruel way of aborting a fetus to now a days in America where there is plenty of safe and acceptable ways for a women to have an abortion. This came about due to the Supreme Court case of Roe vs. Wade that changed of American can look at abortion and how women can have the right to
History of Abortion
By Tom DeVito
Human Sexuality 267
11/4/2013
Abstract
This paper will describe the history of abortion starting with back in the ancient Hebrews, Romans, English, and colonial America. Then it will look at the court case Roe vs. Wade and see how it has led to Americans opinion on abortion today. Finally it will look at America today on how women can now get an abortion and the new laws being put in to stricken the reason and ways for American women to have an abortion.
Abortion is defined as term “referred to the termination of a pregnancy before the embryo or fetus is capable of surviving outside the womb”. For …show more content…
The ancient Hebrews had laws against abortion, but only if the mother’s life was a risk would they permit an abortion to happen. Under Roman rule, abortion was permitted, as well as infanticide. The shriveled remains of exposed babies could be found all across the countryside and at the bottom of cliffs throughout the Roman Empire. The early Christian church generally opposed abortion. From about the 1300s to the 1800s, abortion before animation, Christian theologians defined animation as the point at which a fetus received a soul. According to church teachings, animation occurred between forty to eighty days after conception, became a generally accepted practice in Europe, if the pregnancy endangered the life of the mother. If an abortion was performed before animation for a less serious reason, many theologians saw it as wrong but not homicide. These practices came over to the American colonies with the pilgrims and the …show more content…
They can now get drugs that will do it, such as RU-486(mifepristone). This induces an early abortion by blocking the effects of the hormone progesterone which stimulates proliferation of the endometruim allowing the implantation and development of the placenta. The next thing women can do to have an abortion is to have an intra-amniotic infusion, this is an abortion in the second trimester in which a substance is injected into the amniotic sac to induce premature labor. Finally there can be dilation and evacuation (D&E) or a dilation and curettage (D&C). D&C is an operation in which the cervix is dilated and the uterine contents are gently scraped away. D&E is an abortion in which the cervix is dilated prior to vacuum aspiration. All of these operations or drug taking is done before the third trimester of the pregnancy. This is along way from cutting someone open and retrieving the child. Regardless of how one feels about abortion the history of it is fascinating dating about to ancient times where they had cruel way of aborting a fetus to now a days in America where there is plenty of safe and acceptable ways for a women to have an abortion. This came about due to the Supreme Court case of Roe vs. Wade that changed of American can look at abortion and how women can have the right to