scholarly journals ABORTION: A NEVER-ENDING INTERDISCIPLINARY DEBATE

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Ferenc Zoltán Simó
Keyword(s):  
Termination Of Pregnancy ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Post Period ◽  
Pro Life ◽  
Pro Choice

This study is the second part of the examination, considering the multifaceted feature of debates surrounding the termination of pregnancy. Although we may suppose that the so-called pro-life and pro-choice supporters have already paved their rigid ways of thinking with no possibility or hope for any modification, it might come as a surprise to learn that even Christian and Buddhist points of view can be tuned.  Health-related disciplines, such as psychology keep reflecting on the issues of abortion with more and more emphasis on the post period of it.

scholarly journals [Analysis of Pro-Life Conflicts and Pro-Choice Therapeutic Abortion Issues in Terms of Keeping Lives According to The Quran] Analisis Konflik Pro-Life dan Pro-Choice Isu Pengguguran Terapeutik dari Aspek Menjaga Nyawa Menurut Al-Quran

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
Siti Khatijah Ismail Binyi Ismail ◽  
Ridzwan Ahmad Bin Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Termination Of Pregnancy ◽  
Therapeutic Abortion ◽  
A Priority ◽  
The Right ◽  
Pro Life ◽  
Pro Choice

Therapeutic abortion is the termination of pregnancy procedures based on medical justification. There are two schools of opinion concerning to the issue of abortion. The first group confirmed that this procedure is done with a reason to save the mother's life or known as a pro-life group. The second group emphasized on the right of a woman to choose whether to continue with the pregnancy or not, known as pro-choice. Consequently, a 'priority conflict' arises between them. Thus, this article aims to analyze this conflict in accordance with the concept of preservation of life as found in verse 12 of Surat al-Hashr and verse 31 of Surat al-Isra '. Through an analysis of the work of scholars in the field of jurisprudence and medicine, interviews with the experts in the field of obstetrics and interpretation of these two verses in view of the maslahah (benefit) and mafsadah (harm),it is found that pro-life is a priority that needs to be preserved where the maslahah to protect lives is given due consideration. Keywords: the Quran, preservation of life, Therapeutic abortion, pro-life, pro-choice   Penguguran teraputik merupakan satu prosedur penamatan kehamilan berdasarkan justifikasi perubatan. Terdapat dua aliran pandangan apabila isu pengguguran dibincangkan. Golongan pertama membenarkan prosedur ini dilakukan dengan alasan untuk menyelamatkan nyawa ibu yang dikenali sebagai golongan yang pro-life. Golongan kedua pula mengutamakan hak seorang ibu untuk membuat pilihan sama ada ingin meneruskan kehamilan ataupun tidak yang dikenali sebagai pro-choice. Sehubungan dengan itu timbul konflik keutamaan di antara keduanya. Maka, artikel ini bertujuan menganalisis konflik ini mengikut konsep menjaga nyawa sebagaimana yang terdapat di dalam ayat 12 surah al-Mumtahanah dan ayat 31 surah al-Isra’. Melalui analisis terhadap karya sarjana dalam bidang fiqh dan perubatan, temu bual bersama pakar dalam bidang obstetrik serta tafsiran kedua-dua ayat ini dan aspek maslahah dan mafsadah menunjukkan bahawa pendekatan pro-life merupakan suatu keutamaan yang perlu dipelihara  kerana lebih mengambil kira maslahah menjaga nyawa. Kata kunci: Al-Quran, menjaga nyawa, Pengguguran Terapeutik, pro-life, pro-choice.

Pro-Choice People are Immoral and Pro-Life People are Closed-Minded

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh D. Wondra ◽  
Glenn D. Reeder
Keyword(s):  
Pro Life ◽  
Pro Choice

Before Reagan: The Development of Abortion’s Partisan Divide

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1031-1047
Author(s):  
Neil A. O’Brian
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Pro Life ◽  
Pro Choice

What explains the alignment of antiabortion positions within the Republican party? I explore this development among voters, activists, and elites before 1980. By 1970, antiabortion attitudes among ordinary voters correlated with conservative views on a range of noneconomic issues including civil rights, Vietnam, feminism and, by 1972, with Republican presidential vote choice. These attitudes predated the parties taking divergent abortion positions. I argue that because racial conservatives and military hawks entered the Republican coalition before abortion became politically activated, issue overlap among ordinary voters incentivized Republicans to oppose abortion rights once the issue gained salience. Likewise, because proabortion voters generally supported civil rights, once the GOP adopted a Southern strategy, this predisposed pro-choice groups to align with the Democratic party. A core argument is that preexisting public opinion enabled activist leaders to embed the anti (pro) abortion movement in a web of conservative (liberal) causes. A key finding is that the white evangelical laity’s support for conservative abortion policies preceded the political mobilization of evangelical leaders into the pro-life movement. I contend the pro-life movement’s alignment with conservatism and the Republican party was less contingent on elite bargaining, and more rooted in the mass public, than existing scholarship suggests.

Pro-Life or Pro-Choice? Humanistic Buddhists’ Voices Surrounding Abortion in Contemporary Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-80
Author(s):  
Grace Cheng-Ying Lin
Keyword(s):  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
The People ◽  
The Law ◽  
Humanistic Buddhism ◽  
Pro Life ◽  
Pro Choice

In Taiwan, abortion was legalized in 1984. This paper examines the voices surrounding abortion expressed by monasteries in Humanistic Buddhism, a prominent Buddhist philosophy practiced in modern Taiwan. Humanistic Buddhism emphasizes that it is a “religion of the people.” However, in addition to the law of karma and causality, the value of all life forms is prioritized based on the ethics of “non-harming (ahimsā).” When some monasteries insist that abortion is killing, resulting in karmic retribution, some express sympathy with a woman’s decision to abort. When some monasteries promote a newly popularized ritual to appease aborted fetuses, some are keenly critical of the exploitation of women and manipulation of scriptures. Through a discursive analysis, this paper demonstrates the wide spectrum of Buddhist narratives in response to reproductive politics embedded in the conflicts between modernity and tradition, as well as locality and globality.

scholarly journals OWN EXPERIENCES OF ABORTION IN DESCRIPTIONS OF PEOPLE ASSOCIATED IN PRO-CHOICE GROUPS ON FACEBOOK IN POLAND

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
KLEMENTYNA KULETA
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Termination Of Pregnancy ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Abortion Law ◽  
Experience Difficulty ◽  
Pro Choice

A restrictive anti-abortion law is in force in Poland. However, many people terminate pregnancy in cases other than those specified in the Act. Public discourse on this subject is dominated by philosophical and legal issues, and it lacks the voices of those who terminated the pregnancy. Abortion is often presented as a sad necessity, as always difficult or traumatic. I conducted research on describing own abortion experiences by people from Facebook pro-choice groups. 99 respondents who had 102 abortions completed an anonymous online questionnaire. From the material of answers, I selected categories that were used to analyze the results of the study: positive emotions, negative emotions, pregnancy as a burden, good experience, difficulty experience, stigmatization, support. It turned out that the experiences of termination of pregnancy were diverse. Respondents, describing their experiences, discussed topics rarely present in the discourse, such as the fact that abortion can be a good experience.

scholarly journals Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Contentions in Joyce Carol Oates’s: A Book of American Martyrs

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
Weini Wang
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Dominant Group ◽  
Religious Ideology ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Pro Life ◽  
Pro Choice ◽  
Name Of God

This thesis probes into the issue on pro-life and pro-choice contentions in Joyce Carol Oates’s: A Book of American Martyrs. Karl Marx explains how capitalists maneuver the deferred redemption intrinsic of religion per se to exploit and oppress workers and re-enforce capitalism proper. In the novel, the transformation of Luther and Gus provides a convincible account for Luther’s frenzy and Gus’s irreligion. This thesis discusses argues that the workers are unconsciously subjected to the governance of the dominant group via the conceptualization of religious ideology and religious culture industry. It should be condemned to impose one’s belief on the others, or even to commit murder ruthlessly in the name of God.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Fran Amery
Keyword(s):  
Sex Selection ◽  
Reproductive Decisions ◽  
Abortion Law ◽  
Abortion Debate ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Abortion Politics ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Pro Life ◽  
Pro Choice

This chapter gives a brief overview of the current terrain of abortion debate in the UK, covering calls for decriminalisation as well as debates on sex-selection, disability and pre-abortion counselling. It argues that the classic image of abortion politics as a war between ‘pro-life’ and ‘pro-choice’ actors cannot adequately accommodate these recent developments – nor does it fit with how abortion debates have actually unfolded in Britain historically. Instead, it offers an interpretation of abortion law as resting on a coalition between government and medical actors formed to govern women’s reproductive decisions. The chapter closes with an overview of the book.

Beyond Pro-life and Pro-choice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fran Amery
Keyword(s):  
Abortion Debate ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Medical Associations ◽  
Sex Selective Abortion ◽  
Abortion Access ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right ◽  
Pro Life ◽  
Pro Choice

A common misunderstanding of the Abortion Act 1967 is that it granted women the ‘right’ to access abortion. In reality, there is no such thing; the current provision of abortion in the United Kingdom rests on a system in which doctors, not women, are the arbiters of abortion access. In recent years, calls for the full decriminalisation of abortion have been given a vigour not seen before. For the first time, MPs and medical associations have moved to back decriminalisation, in line with the demands of pro-choice campaigners across the UK. But at the same time, opponents are mobilising to undermine public faith in both the Abortion Act and abortion providers. In doing so, they have tended to set aside the classic ‘right to life’ arguments, instead focusing on issues such as sex-selective abortion and disability rights. This book makes sense of today’s changed landscape of abortion debate by tracing the evolution of political and parliamentary discourse on abortion from the passage of the Abortion Act in the 1960s to the present. It makes the case that to understand contemporary abortion politics, it is necessary to move beyond a conceptualisation of the debate as characterised by ‘pro-choice’ versus ‘pro-life’.

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