This show and many others like it got me interested in the topic of abortion by puzzling my mind with questions that could only be answered by my own opinions. Depending on how I was brought up and my morals, values, and how I thought decided what the answer to the question was for me. Did I think the killing of an unborn person was okay or did I think it was wrong? Did I think it was all right to deny an alr

I picked this topic because I have many strong feelings toward the subject, but I do not know hardly anything about the topic of abortion itself. I do not know if there are any laws regarding the subject. I do not know how the medical field feels or how most people feel towards the subject. I want to find more factual information on this subject instead of just relying on my opinions.

The medical field has always had an uneasy relationship with the subject of abortion. From the fifteenth century the Hippocratic oath pronounced a doctor’s bargain with life, not death. It is, in fact, one of the rare historical documents to mention abortion at all. The oath states: “I will not give a pessary to a woman to cause an abortion,” a ringing declaration that might leave little doubt about where the medical community stands (qtd. in Tooley p 222).

Pro-choice supporters think motherhood is a choice women can make and should be allowed to be delayed until one can best provide for a child emotionally and financially. (Brotman 5) They say a woman’s liberty is burdened when government prevents her from ending her pregnancy if that is her choice. To deny a liberty as basic as a woman’s freedom not to remain pregnant, not to give birth, and not to become a mother is wrong (Tribe 114).

After writing the “What I Know” paper I began my research. To begin my research I looked in the SIRS for articles about abortion. I was very surprised when about all of one binder was all about abortion. Abortion meant a lot more to the world than what I had thought. After reading the articles I had Ms. Hahn copy the articles that intrigued me most. They also contained the most information about my subject.

Also two widely reported tragic episodes at this time helped to change medical about abortion. In 1962 when Sherri Finkbine was denied the right to have an abortion after accidentally taking the tranquilizer thalidomide, it causes children to be born badly disfigured, and later had to go to Ireland to have an abortion because she was denied one in the United States. The doctors in Ireland showed the United States pictures of what the child looked like when they took it out of Sherri and it had fins for feet (Tribe 37).

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