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Evaluating Abortion-Care Programs: Old Challenges, New Directions
There are 46 million women (16 million in developing countries) who experience induced abortions yearly. 13% of these abortions lead to maternal deaths due to untrained practitioners and unsanitary conditions. The lack of legal and safe abortion services in some areas of the world affect the poor, young, and marginalized. Benson states that these illegal instances are due to the controversies of abortion. -
Abortion, Potential, And Value.
Williams argues both sides of the abortion debate: whether abortion should be deemed ethical or unethical. Williams explains one view on how a fetus isn’t a person until roughly the 20th week of the pregnancy when they develop brainwaves, thus making it justifiable to terminate them since they aren’t people yet. Williams also tells the opposing view of how fetuses could be potential humans if given time to develop and grow. It is stated that entities shouldn’t be treated based on potential, ... -
Women in No Man's Land: The abortion Debate in the USA and Women tormenting desired pregnacies Due to Foetal Anomaly
Women diagnosed with fetal anomaly (TFA) are those who want children but there are life-threatening complications. This article discusses their turmoil when dealing with abortion in a society where child bearing is encouraged even though there is little social and economic support to raise healthy children. Over the years there have been many struggles for women with TFA to receive an abortion due to the many restrictions imposed by the government. Many people believe that the life of the ... -
Medicaid Funding For Abortion: Providers' Experiences with Cases Involving Rape, Incest and life Endangerment
The Hyde Amendment was passed in 1796. Contrary to what the Hyde Amendment states, providers have little to no success of recieving Medicaid reimbursement for qualified cases; this is due to extensive paperwork, long delays, excessive staff time, clinicians reluctance to signing paperwork, and difficulty identifying rape, incest, and life endangerment cases. -
Private Bleeding: Self-Induced Abortion In the Twenty-First Century United States
Tiana Hayden effectively describes how abortion policies have caused some women desperate enough to do something life threatening. Still in this day and age, many women induce abortions on themselves; some of which have been prosecuted with "solicitating an illegal abortion" or "voluntary manslaughter." Why when there are legal alternative? Some women are poor, can't support a child, can't get approved for an abortion due to all the restrictions, or are scared of harassement from pro-life ... -
Abortion Providers' Experience with Medicaid Abortion Coverage Policies
Dennis and Blanchard created an experiment that proved that trying to receive Medicaid reimbursement is difficult. After recruiting a total of fifteen states Dennis and Blanchard asked about Medicaid reimbursement policies. Two of the states reported that 97% of abortion cases were reimbursed. However, the other thirteen states reported only 36% of qualifying cases were reimbursed. Dennis and Blanchard concluded that the reason why the success rate was low for the majority of the states was ... -
Choices and Lives: The Changing Politics of Abortion
In Europe, there are mulitple restrictions on abortion policies. The US is tredning that way as well; 2011 had the highest number of abortion policies created and 2013 the second highest year. The Constanza Theory (reffering to an episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza does the opposite of his instincts) is applied to the main political parties of the US; Republicans are pro life whereas the Democrats are pro choice. However, despite the United States turn towards abolition of abortion, 62%..