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National Abortion Federation (2010) reported that American women between the ages of 15 and 19 account for about 19% of all abortions and older teenagers has the highest abortion rates. Recently, the abortion debate on autonomy, rights and the way in which society views the reason for abortion. Health professionals have an ethical obligation to against a non-reasonable for abortion but still have rights to provide abortion in cases where fetal abnormality has been detected following prenatal diagnosis (McGuinness, 2009). Therefore, it is crucial that health professionals understand the basic of the abortion debate, from the perspective of their own professions, a whole society and the woman who may have had or is considering an abortion or has been affected by this issue. The idea of abortion relates with many complicating issues such as sex, morals, and choices, thus, it is important to explore these many issues based on a true story to fully understand the ethical considerations that surround abortion dilemmas from a teenager who have had abortion. The case involved in this paper is considered in a scope of unprotected sex, a lack of self-control, and religious value and emphasizing the reasonable aspects of abortion in a perspective of a teenager involved in abortion. The fact of the true issue of abortion is the outcome of the life of the mother and the unborn child if it had not been terminated. Case: A 19-year-old girl, who is a closed friend of mine, consulted me with a complaint of nausea and vomiting. She confessed she had been sexually active for several months and had not taken any precaution. Her period has been missing for over 3 months. I bought a home pregnancy tests for her and it showed that she is pregnant, a... ... middle of paper ... ...hics through the life span (4th ed.). New York: Prentice Hall. Beauchamp, T. L., & Childress, J. F. (2009). Principles of biomedical ethics (6th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. Guttmacher Institute. (2010). U.S. Teenage Pregnancies, Births and Abortions: National and State Trends and Trends by Race and Ethnicity. Jecker, N. S., Jonsen, A. R., & Pearlman, R. A. (2007). Bioethics: An introduction to the history, methods, and practice (2nd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett. Jones, K., & Chaloner, C. (2007). Ethics of abortion: the arguments for and against. Nursing Standard,21(37), 45-48. McGuinness, S. (2009). Abortion: prohibitions and exceptions. American Journal Of Bioethics, 9(8), 70-72. doi:10.1080/15265160902948322 National Abortion Federation. (2010). Abortion Facts. Retrieved from http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/facts/women_who.html
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In America, one million teenagers get pregnant every year (National Abortion Federation, 2003). Of these pregnancies, 78% are unplanned because these teenagers start having sex at a very young age and are unaware of ways to prevent pregnancies. Thirty five percent of the pregnant teenagers chose to abort, as they fear that the consequences of the pregnancy might cause significant effects to their lives. The problems that come with teenage pregnancies include dropping out of school, receiving inadequate prenatal care, developing health problems, relying on public assistance to raise a child, and probably divorcing their partners. In most states, the law allows pregnant teenagers to take their babies for adoption without consulting their parents. The same laws allow the teenagers to have an abortion but require parental notification or consent before carrying out the procedure. These laws prove biased as they favor one resolution over the other, as they force some to bear babies they do not want by restricting their options.
Teenage pregnancy rates in Georgia between 15 to 17-years-old were decline for 42 percent over an eleven-year period according to ongoing monitoring of Georgia’s teen pregnancy rates by the Department of Human Resources (2006). From 1994-2004, the teen pregnancy rate among non-Hispanic African-Americans declined 51 percent. The teen pregnancy rate for non-Hispanic whites went down 48 percent. While the number of pregnancies among Hispanic teens has increased from 233 in 1994 to 964 in 2004, exact pregnancy rates are unknown due to lack of data on the growth of this population.
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The subject of teenage abortion, is an emotionally charged one. The two major groups are completely opposite in their beliefs. Rather than discuss the emotional views of those groups, I have chosen to research, write, and conclude based on factual material, concerning teenage abortion. A discussion of abortion as a definition is explained medically, and in a small part the emotional effects on the participant. I have chosen to report in a factual, not an emotional manner.
Teen pregnancy rate down, abortion rate up. By: Buske, Lynda. CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, 02/06/2001, Vol.164 Issue 3, p395
Abortion is an extremely controversial issue and one that is continually on the forefront of debates. Those who oppose the idea (Pro-lifers), thinks it is an act of woman playing “God” who live from who dies. Yet, whether an unborn baby constitutes a normal person is questionable; a pregnant woman, on the other hand, has the undeniable right to choose whether she wants to have a child or not. Therefore, the decision to have an abortion is the personal choice and responsibility of the woman, because prohibiting abortion impedes freedom of choice and endangers the physical and mental health of women.