Their top priority as a doctor is to help others, and one is not helping someone by denying them aid. For example, a person enters a pharmacy and asks for birth control pills. The person approaches the pharmacist in order to obtain those birth control pills, but the pharmacist does not want to give him/her the pills because the pharmacist believes it is morally wrong. Whichever way you see this, the pharmacist has no choice in the matter; it is the person asking for the pills that has a choice. Whether you support or criticize birth control pills, it is ultimately up to that person to decide for themselves, not the pharmacist.
She confides in the therapist that she is pregnant and is trying to find a place for an abortion where she will not need to tell her parents that she had an abortion or that she is pregnant. The issue of confidentiality comes in because while Pennsylvania has a law that states that the minor would need parental consent for an abortion the minor is seeking an abortion that may be out of state. The 14 Steps in Ethical Decision Making The problem statement could be that the therapist is faced with an issue of confidentiality. While the teen is lawfully allowed to keep her pregnancy from her parents she cannot get an abortion in her
A DNAR is a request not to have cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed if the heart stops or breathing ceases (NursingTimes.net, 2009). O’Donnell M. (2007) agrees that law clearly states doctors have a legal duty to apply good medical practice in the best interests of their patients. No law has ever required doctors to act according to previous results and to what could be seen extremely unlikely to achieve a positive outcome. Indeed, where treatment is not necessary and not in the best interest of the patient, there is no rule that agrees to providing treatment and in fact to do so could be considered assault (Dimond, B. 2005).
Forcing a woman to carry the child of a rapist simply because one believes that abortion is wrong would be infringing in on the rights of the mother. It could be considered wrong when individuals have careless sex and utilize abortions as birth control, especially when there are hundreds of birth control choices out there already (Pushaw, 2008). There is another way that this could be viewed; there are women that just don't think they can handle being a single mom. The reality here is that there is a choice to be made before a person finds them in this type of situation. The vast majority of Americans, including those who favor a right to choose during the early stages of pregnancy, support laws that prohibit partial-birth
The patient constantly asks the medical assistant about her step daughter. However the doctor told the medical assistant not to tell the patient about her step daughter’s death without giving any reasons for such instructions. Hence, the medical assistant encounters an uncomfortable position of whether to tell the truth or withhold it. The moral principles in conflict are honesty and loyalty because the medical assistant wants to be honest with the patient without being disloyal to the doctor. Another issue of conflict is breach of confidentiality.
Can these kinds of treatment really get patient and their families out of suffering as well as give hope? I do not think so. For passive euthanasia, the patients just refuse to accept any treatment and let their lives continue naturally without any medical or machine. For instance, Julia Quinlan, Karen’s mother, explained the family’s feelings: “We didn’t ask for Karen to die. We just asked for her to be removed from technology and be placed in a natural state.” People who are against euthanasia believe that passive euthanasia is wrong.
From a religious standpoint they believe that when the fetus arrives it is a person. Most believe when the nervous system is made, because it can feel pain like an abortion. However this stage does not happen until the 6th or 7th month and abortion never occurs after the 24th week. Abortion is necessary because of the potential of existing circumstances that would be a detriment to the mother or fetus. The mother could be physically, mentally, or emotionally unwell and not capable of being pregnant or having a child without endangering her health; the pregnancy could have possibly been the result of a terrible crime, such as rape or incest; the fetus could be unhealthy and be a danger to the mother's health.
Even in the case of rape, the RC Church does not support abortion - the foetus would be paying for someone else’s crime. “Human life is sacred”. Humanae Vitae, 1968: “The unborn human being’s right to live is one of the inalienable human rights” Pope John Paul II, 1985 "Abortion is a serious sin. Everyone, whether Catholic or not, should have a proper respect for human life. "Declaration on Procured Abortion, 1974: "From the time that the ovum is fertilised a new life is begun which is neither that of the father or the mother.
State officials who pushed for the mandate say the law is intended to protect women who might suffer complications while having an abortion. The truth is that hospitals grant admitting privileges as a measure of quality assurance, but needing a doctor to have admitting privileges to get patients into a hospital if they need to go is unnecessary. Emergency room doctors have admitting privileges, and if people need to be admitted, they will be admitted. The law is designed to complicate the process so that it will be more difficult for abortion clinics to provide the procedure. Many states have passed laws that restrict abortion clinics, and the number of clinics in the U.S. has consequently dropped from 2,200 in 1991 to 678 by September 2011, and that number has continued to dwindle.
But whatever the situation, there is never an acceptable reason to get an abortion. Here are some reasons why abortion should be illegal: Adoption is another option, many women are endangered by it, birth control is another option, it can also cause misscarriages if you have 2 or more. The first reason why abortion should be illegal is because adoption is another option. Adoption is always brought up when people talk about aborting an unwanted child. There are tons of people who get rejected when they apply to adopt a child.