Hot-Button Issue: Abortion Jim Buie wrote an article published in the Newsweek Web Exclusive on June 17, 2009. In it he referenced the hot-button issue of abortion. His personal story is very touching and holds a lot of emotion. If one cannot connect and sympathize for him after they have heard it all then they must be very set in their ways about abortion. Buie says, “abortion was not an option for my parents when Jon was born back in 1949.” He understands that raising a child with Down syndrome was very difficult.
Abortion Choices: Reproductive Science and Ethical Dilemmas Ruth Padawer’s article “The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy” retells the stories of a number of different couples and physicians who have had to deal with difficult reproductive choices that were in a way the result of advances in medical science. Both doctors and couples are being asked to in a sense to “play god” in determining when it is appropriate to abort a fetus. Padawer relates the stories of a number of physicians and couples who deal in different ways with the difficult decisions surrounding abortion especially as it relates to reducing a pregnancy from twins to a singleton. She shows how the advances in medical science are forcing both parents and physicians to make ethical decisions
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Abortion has been documented since the biblical times. The practice of abortion dates back to ancient times. Religions have mixed beliefs about abortion. Some oppose abortion because they believe that human life begins when the sperm and the egg meet. They hold this religious belief even though medical science defines pregnancy as” beginning with the implantation
The lack in education and experice results in lower levels of trust in medical care. They are skeptical about receiving care from physicians, nurses and the entire medical care regimen as a whole. Women who are skeptical about the care will reject prenatal testing. For example referring back to the story about tracy, she rejected getting an ultrasound because she believed that the radioactive rays would affect her fetus. If she was educated about the importance of prenatal testing Nahla might have been normal today.
There are parents who view that it is unnecessary and not safe for your child to be vaccinated and there are the parents who believe you should get your children vaccinated to make sure they stay healthy and won’t get a deadly disease. My viewpoint on this topic is also kind of sensitive because my almost 5 year old son has been tested for autism and it is hard to research autism without coming up on the opinions that the vaccinations will cause autism. I still stand by my decision to vaccinate my son and still went on with vaccination my second son. My viewpoint is even if it is proven that the vaccinations “cause” autism my child cannot die from being autistic. Whereas if my child gets one of the viruses or diseases from not being vaccinated it can be fatal to not only my child but spread to other children who are not vaccinated.
Never lift a child with osteogenesis imperfecta by holding him or her under the armpits. Do not pull on arms or legs or, in those with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, lift the legs by the ankles to change a diaper. Select an infant car seat that reclines. It should be easy to place or remove your child in the seat. Consider padding the seat with foam and using a layer of foam between your child and the harness.
Should parents be held responsible for failing to get their children vaccinated? How will mandatory measles vaccination curb the spread of the disease? In my decision to become a nurse, one of my greatest fear was getting sick with some incurable or fatal disease my patients had. I decided to become a nurse thinking that by a certain in the future these avoidable disease would be easily eradicate. This have proven to be untrue because although the vaccines are available, they are not mandatory and some parents do not believe in vaccinations for various reasons.
When a child has a sickness that can lead to death and there is no cure, a mother would do anything in her will to help even if it means having another child. Parents were given the power to choose between several embryos, giving life to only one thought to be the best match. Parents can pick if they want abortion or not, so there is no reason why parents should decide if they want another child conceived or not. Donna Zammits gave birth to another child to see if the newborn would have the matching bone marrow needed to save her son. Turns out that the new born was not a match .Donna was disappointed at first but was still happy that she had a new addition to the family.
The real question that has crossed many minds is whether or not all arguments about abortion come down to what the moral status of the fetus is. In fact in most cases the moral status of the fetus is what renders people to question whether it was a living human being when it was aborted, regardless of whether or not it could speak the written language to defend its own life. Moral issues over a woman’s fetus have raised questions through the growth of the child within its mother. The moral status of a fetus becomes dangerous ground do to all the new technology and modern medicine that was created to help those who have a hard time carrying a child full term to those women who can’t conceive at all. David Paintin, writer of the article “Ethical Issues in Maternal — Fetal Medicine,” states that; “It is not ‘new life’—the intracellular biological processes of the fetus are in direct continuity with those of the women, with the man adding only his half of the chromosomal genes.