Responses to population issues pro-natal and anti natal policies This essay is going to explain and show us pro-natal and anti-natal policies in the worlds most developed countries. Also, I will state the real reasons of setting this up and the year since they have been using these policies. A short summary of France's pro-natalist population policy Slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website.

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The debate over whether or not abortion should be a legal option continues to divide Americans long after the US Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision on Roe v. Wade declared the procedure a “fundamental right” on Jan. 22, 1973.Proponents, identifying themselves as pro-choice, contend that choosing abortion is a woman’s right that should not be limited by governmental or religious authority, and which outweighs any right claimed for an embryo or fetus. They say that pregnant women will resort to unsafe illegal abortions if there is no legal option.Opponents, identifying themselves as pro-life, contend that individual human life begins at fertilization, and therefore abortion is the immoral killing of an innocent human being. They say abortion inflicts suffering on the unborn child, and that it is unfair to allow abortion when couples who cannot biologically conceive are waiting to adopt.

Should Abortion Be Legal? Pro 2 Reproductive choice empowers women by giving them control over their own bodies.

The choice over when and whether to have children is central to a woman's independence and ability to determine her future. Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote in the 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 'The ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives.' Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in her dissenting opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart (2007) that undue restrictions on abortion infringe upon 'a woman's autonomy to determine her life's course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature.' CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, JD, stated that Roe v. Wade was 'a landmark of what is, in the truest sense, women's liberation.'

Pro 3 Personhood begins after a fetus becomes “viable” (able to survive outside the womb) or after birth, not at conception. Embryos and fetuses are not independent, self-determining beings, and abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, not a baby. A person's age is calculated from birth date, not conception, and fetuses are not counted in the US Census. The majority opinion in Roe v. Wade states that 'the word 'person,' as used in the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution, does not include the unborn.'

Pro 4 Fetuses are incapable of feeling pain when most abortions are performed. According to a review by Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 'most neuroscientists believe that the cortex is necessary for pain perception.'

The cortex does not become functional until at least the 26th week of a fetus' development, long after most abortions are performed. This finding was endorsed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologistswhich stated that that there is 'no legitimate scientific information that supports the statement that a fetus experiences pain.' A University of California at San Francisco study said fetuses probably can't feel pain until the 29th or 30th week of gestation. Abortions that late into a pregnancy are extremely rare and are often restricted by state laws. According to Stuart W. Derbyshire, PhD, Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham (UK), 'fetuses cannot be held to experience pain. Not only has the biological development not yet occurred to support pain experience, but the environment after birth, so necessary to the development of pain experience, is also yet to occur.'

The 'flinching' and other reactions seen in fetuses when they detect pain stimuli are mere reflexes, not an indication that the fetus is perceiving or 'feeling' anything. Pro 5 Access to legal, professionally-performed abortions reduces maternal injury and death caused by unsafe, illegal abortions. According to Daniel R. Mishell, Jr., MD, Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, before abortion was legalized women would frequently try to induce abortions by using coat hangers, knitting needles, or radiator flush, or by going to unsafe 'back-alley' abortionists. In 1972, there were 39 maternal deaths from illegal abortions. By 1976, after Roe v. Wade had legalized abortion nationwide, this number dropped to two.

The World Health Organization estimated that unsafe abortions cause 68,000 maternal deaths worldwide each year, many of those in developing countries where safe and legal abortion services are difficult to access. Pro 6 Modern abortion procedures are safe and do not cause lasting health issues such as cancer and infertility. A peer-reviewed study published by Obstetrics & Gynecology reported that less than one quarter of one percent of abortions lead to major health complications. A study in Obstetrics & Gynecology found a woman's risk of dying from having an abortion is 0.6 in 100,000, while the risk of dying from giving birth is around 14 times higher (8.8 in 100,000).

The study also found that 'pregnancy-related complications were more common with childbirth than with abortion.' The American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists stated 'Abortion is one of the safest medical procedures performed in the United States.' They also said the mortality rate of a colonoscopy is more than 40 times greater than that of an abortion. The National Cancer Institute (NCI), the American Cancer Society (ACS), and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists all refuted the claim that abortion can lead to a higher probability of developing breast cancer. A fertility investigation of 10,767 women by the Joint Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists found that women who had at least two abortions experienced the same future fertility as those who had at least two natural pregnancies. Pro 7 Women who receive abortions are less likely to suffer mental health problems than women denied abortions. A peer-reviewed study comparing the mental health of women who received abortions to women denied abortions found that women who were denied abortions 'felt more regret and anger' and 'less relief and happiness' than women who had abortions.

The same study also found that 95% of women who received abortions 'felt it was the right decision' a week after the procedure. Studies by the American Psychological Association (APA), the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AMRC), and researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health all concluded that purported links between abortion and mental health problems are unfounded. Pro 8 Abortion gives pregnant women the option to choose not to bring fetuses with profound abnormalities to full term. Some fetuses have such severe disorders that death is guaranteed before or shortly after birth.

These include anencephaly, in which the brain is missing, and limb-body wall complex, in which organs develop outside the body cavity. It would be cruel to force women to carry fetuses with fatal congenital defects to term.

Even in the case of nonfatal conditions, such as Down syndrome, parents may be unable to care for a severely disabled child. Deborah Anne Driscoll, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania, said 'many couples.

Don't have the resources, don't have the emotional stamina, don't have the family support to raise a child with Down syndrome.' Pro 9 Women who are denied abortions are more likely to become unemployed, to be on public welfare, to be below the poverty line, and to become victims of domestic violence. A University of California at San Francisco study found that women who were turned away from abortion clinics (because they had passed the gestational limit imposed by the clinic) were three times more likely to be below the poverty level two years later than women who were able to obtain abortions. 76% of the 'turnaways' ended up on unemployment benefits, compared with 44% of the women who had abortions. The same study found that women unable to obtain abortions were more likely to stay in a relationship with an abusive partner than women who had an abortion, and were more than twice as likely to become victims of domestic violence. Pro 10 Reproductive choice protects women from financial disadvantage.

Many women who choose abortion don't have the financial resources to support a child. 42% of women having abortions are below the federal poverty level. A survey in the peer-reviewed Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health asking women why they had an abortion found that 73% of respondents said they could not afford to have a baby, and 38% said giving birth would interfere with their education and career goals. A University of Massachusetts at Amherst study published in the peer-reviewed American Sociological Review found that women at all income levels earn less when they have children, with low-wage workers being most affected, suffering a 15% earnings penalty. Pro 11 A baby should not come into the world unwanted.

Having a child is an important decision that requires consideration, preparation, and planning. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment stated that unintended pregnancies are associated with birth defects, low birth weight, maternal depression, increased risk of child abuse, lower educational attainment, delayed entry into prenatal care, a high risk of physical violence during pregnancy, and reduced rates of breastfeeding. 45% of all pregnancies among American women are unintended. Pro 12 Abortion reduces welfare costs to taxpayers.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan federal agency, evaluated a proposed anti-abortion bill that would ban all abortions nationwide after 20 weeks of pregnancy, and found that the resulting additional births would increase the federal deficit by $225 million over nine years, due to the increased need for Medicaid coverage. Also, since many women seeking late-term abortions are economically disadvantaged, their children are likely to require welfare assistance.

Pro 13 Abortion reduces crime. According to a study co-written by Freakonomics co-author Steven D.

Levitt, PhD, and published in the peer-reviewed Quarterly Journal of Economics, 'legalized abortion has contributed significantly to recent crime reductions.' Around 18 years after abortion was legalized, crime rates began to drop abruptly, and crime rates dropped earlier in states that allowed abortion earlier. Because 'women who have abortions are those most at risk to give birth to children who would engage in criminal activity,' and women who had control over the timing of childbearing were more likely to raise children in optimal environments, crime is reduced when there is access to legal abortion.

Pro 14 Abortion is justified as a means of population control. Philosopher Peter Singer, MA, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, defended abortion as a way to curb overpopulation. The United Nations estimated that the world's population will increase to 9.3 billion by 2050, which would be 'the equivalent of adding another India and China to the world,' according to the Los Angeles Times. Malnutrition, starvation, poverty, lack of medical and educational services, pollution, underdevelopment, and conflict over resources are all consequences of overpopulation. With 55.9 million abortions performed worldwide each year, , the population increase if abortion were unavailable could be substantial. Pro 15 Many religious organizations and people of faith support women’s reproductive choice. Although many religious groups oppose abortion, the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church, and the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations are all officially pro-choice.

The Bible, despite interpretations to the contrary, contains no explicit condemnation of abortion, and does not portray the killing of a fetus as equivalent to the killing of a human being. In Exodus 21:22-25, the crime of causing a woman to miscarry is treated as a property crime, whereas killing the woman is considered murder and is punished with the death penalty. While the Catholic and Lutheran churches oppose abortion, more of their members believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases versus illegal in all or most cases (51% vs.

45%, Lutheran; 48% vs. 45%, Catholic). Joe Biden, 47th US Vice President, stated that 'I accept my Catholic church's position on abortion. But I refuse to impose it on equally devout Christians and Muslims and Jews, and I just refuse to impose that on others.

I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people that - women they can't control their body.' Con 1 Abortion is murder. The killing of an innocent human being is wrong, even if that human being has yet to be born. Unborn babies are considered human beings by the US government. The federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which was enacted 'to protect unborn children from assault and murder,' states that under federal law, anybody intentionally killing or attempting to kill an unborn child should 'be punished. For intentionally killing or attempting to kill a human being.'

The act also states that an unborn child is a 'member of the species homo sapiens.' At least 38 states have passed similar fetal homicide laws.

Con 2 Life begins at conception, so unborn babies are human beings with a right to life. Upon fertilization, a human individual is created with a unique genetic identity that remains unchanged throughout his or her life. This individual has a fundamental right to life, which must be protected. Jerome Lejeune, the French geneticist who discovered the chromosome abnormality that causes Down syndrome, stated that 'To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical contention, it is plain experimental evidence.'

Con 3 Fetuses feel pain during the abortion procedure. Maureen Condic, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy and Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine, explains that the 'most primitive response to pain, the spinal reflex,' is developed by eight weeks gestation, and adds that 'There is universal agreement that pain is detected by the fetus in the first trimester.' According to Kanwaljeet J. Anand, MBBS, DPhil, Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology and Neurobiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 'If the fetus is beyond 20 weeks of gestation, I would assume that there will be pain caused to the fetus. And I believe it will be severe and excruciating pain.'

Bernard N. Nathanson, MD, the late abortion doctor who renounced his earlier work and became a pro-life activist, stated that when an abortion is performed on a 12-week-old fetus, 'We see in an ultrasound image the child's mouth open in a silent scream. This is the silent scream of a child threatened imminently with extinction.' Con 4 Abortion is the killing of a human being, which defies the word of God.

The Bible does not draw a distinction between fetuses and babies: the Greek word brephos is used in the Bible to refer to both an unborn child and an infant. By the time a baby is conceived, he or she is recognized by God, as demonstrated in Jeremiah 1:5: 'Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee.' The Sixth Commandment of the Bible's Old Testament, 'Thou shalt not kill' (Exodus 20:13), applies to all human beings, including unborn babies.

In the Hindu religion, the holy text Kaushitaki Upanishad states that abortion is an equivalent misdeed to killing one's own parents. The BBC states that 'Traditional Buddhism rejects abortion because it involves the deliberate destroying of a life.'

Con 5 The decision in Roe v. Wade was wrong and should be overturned. US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stated that the right to privacy defended in Roe v. Wade is 'utterly idiotic' and should not be considered binding precedent: 'There is no right to privacy in the US Constitution.'

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In his dissenting opinion in Roe v. Wade, Justice William H.

Rehnquist stated that an abortion 'is not 'private' in the ordinary usage of that word. Nor is the 'privacy' that the Court finds here even a distant relative of the freedom from searches and seizures protected by the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.' Furthermore, the 14th Amendment bars states from depriving 'any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.'

The Supreme Court overreached in Roe v. Wade when it excluded unborn children from the class of 'persons.' Con 6 Abortions cause psychological damage.

A peer-reviewed study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health found that 'Young adult women who undergo. Abortion may be at increased risk for subsequent depression.' A peer-reviewed study published in BMC Medicine found that women who underwent an abortion had 'significantly higher' anxiety scores on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale up to five years after the pregnancy termination. A peer-reviewed study published by the Southern Medical Journal of more than 173,000 American women found that women who aborted were 154% more likely to commit suicide than women who carried to term. A study published in the British Medical Journal reported that the mean annual suicide rate amongst women who had an abortion was 34.7 per 100,000, compared with a mean rate of 11.3 per 100,000 in the general population of women.

A Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology study of men whose partners had abortions found that 51.6% of the men reported regret, 45.2% felt sadness, and 25.8% experienced depression. Con 7 Abortions reduce the number of adoptable babies. Instead of having the option to abort, women should give their unwanted babies to people who cannot conceive. The percentage of infants given up for adoption in the United States declined from 9% of those born before 1973 to 0.5% of those born in 2014. As a result of the lack of women putting their children up for adoption, the number of US infant adoptions dropped from about 90,000 in 1971 to 18,329 in 2014. Around 2.6 million Americans are seeking to adopt children.

Con 8 Selective abortion based on genetic abnormalities (eugenic termination) is overt discrimination. Physical limitations don't make those with disabilities less than human. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 provides civil rights protection to people born with disabilities so they can lead fulfilling lives. The National Down Syndrome Society states that 'people with Down syndrome live at home with their families and are active participants in the educational, vocational, social, and recreational activities of the community. People with Down syndrome are valued members of their families and their communities, contributing to society in a variety of ways.' The increase in abortions of babies with Down syndrome (over 80% of women choose to abort Down syndrome babies ) reduced the Down syndrome population by 15% between 1989 and 2005. Con 9 Women should not be able to use abortion as a form of contraception.

It is immoral to kill an unborn child for convenience. The Guttmacher Institute reported that 45% of all women having abortions every year have had at least one previous abortionwhile 8.6% of abortions reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2014 were undergone by women who had three or more previous abortions.

This suggests that many women are using abortion as a contraceptive method. Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt, PhD, wrote that after abortion was legalized, 'Conceptions rose by nearly 30 percent, but births actually fell by 6 percent, indicating that many women were using abortion as a method of birth control, a crude and drastic sort of insurance policy.' Con 12 Abortion promotes a culture in which human life is disposable. The legalization of abortion sends a message that human life has little value. Pope Francis condemned 'the throwaway culture' in Jan.

2014, stating that 'what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary'. For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day.' House Representative Randy Hultgren (R-IL) wrote in Jan. 2014 that 'When we tell one another that abortion is okay, we reinforce the idea that human lives are disposable, that we can throw away anything or anyone that inconveniences us.' Con 16 Abortion may lead to future medical problems for the mother. A study published by the peer-reviewed International Journal of Epidemiology estimated that about 15% of first-trimester miscarriages are attributed to a prior history of induced abortion, and stated that 'Induced abortion by vacuum aspiration is associated with an increased risk of first-trimester miscarriage in the subsequent pregnancy.'

A Chinese study published in the peer-reviewed Indian Journal of Cancer found an association between breast cancer and a history of abortions. A study published in the peer-reviewed Cancer Causes and Control found that abortion 'is significantly associated with an increased risk of breast cancer' and that 'the risk of breast cancer increases as the number of abortions increases.' Did You Know?1. Wade in 1973 through 2017, over 60 million legal abortions are estimated to have been performed in the United States – an average of about 1.4 million abortions per year. About one in four US women will have an abortion before age 45. Although the Catholic and Lutheran churches oppose abortion, more of their members believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases versus illegal in all or most cases (51% vs.

45%, Lutheran; 48% vs. 45%, Catholic). A woman's risk of dying from having an abortion is 0.6 in 100,000, while the risk of dying from giving birth is around 14 times higher (8.8 in 100,000). The mortality rate of a colonoscopy is more than 40 times greater than that of an abortion. 8.6% of abortions reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2014 were undergone by women who had three or more previous abortions; 45% of abortions were undergone by women who had one or more previous abortions. 39% of US women live in counties that do not provide abortion services. Seven states (KY, MO, MS, ND, SD, WV, WY) have only one clinic left.

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