Well as been said before, abortion has to occur when researching human embryonic stem cells. Where abortion is such a hot topic that politicians are hesitant to take either side, the process of searching for the next big cure has encountered many problems. Scott Kusendorg, author of Moral Objections to Embryonic Stem Cell Research, clearly describes the hard truth about Embryonic stem cell research. "First, you must kill the embryo to harvest its stem cells. If the embryo is a human person, killing it to benefit others is a clear-cut evil.
Adoption Adoption is better than abortion, it gives many children who need a home a good home. Statistics show there are over 153 million orphans who have lost one or both parents in the United States. Of the over 400,000 children who are in foster care in the U.S., 114,556 cannot be returned to their birth families and are waiting to be adopted. On average, more than 60 percent of children in foster care spend 2-5 years in the system before being adopted. Almost 20 percent spend 5 or more years before being adopted and some never get adopted.
A change that has happened to childbearing since the 1970's is that over four in ten children are now born outside of marriage, which is five times more than it was in 1971. This means that more children are being born into lone-parent families or cohabilitating families. A reason for this is that there has been a huge decline in the stigma that used to be held over births outside marriage and also a increase in cohabiliatation. An example of this is that only one third of 18-24 year olds think marriage should come before parenthood, meaning that the rise in births outside of marriage is more to do with the increase in cohabilitating couples than it is to do with single parents. Another change that has happened in childbearing since the 1970's is that women are having fewer children and children later in life.
For teen pregnancy, I understand some religious don’t think you should have a pregnancy before marriage. But if you don’t want to have a child, why you have sex at a young age? For victims of rape, you should not choose abortion because abortion is always a result of risking. There are a lot of options such as adoption. According to Kristi Burton Brown in “Why Do More People Choose Abortion Over Adoption article” he says: “In the USA, there are approximately two million infertile couples waiting to adopt, many times regardless of the child’s medical problems such as Down Syndrome, Spina Bifida, HIV infection or terminally ill. Dr. Brad Imler, President of America’s Pregnancy Helpline, confirms the challenge of waiting couples by stating: “Only 1% of the Helpline’s annual 40,000 clients inquires about adoption.” If the woman doesn’t want to have a baby, they can choose adoption solution.
After reading this, a Christian will be horrified because they believe that even before the baby is born, since the moment when an egg is fertilized, that future individual is consider as a person with sentiments and rights. Furthermore, in our days abortion is bad seen by Christianity because you are killing a baby that has any fault at all, and in Brave New World the concept of mother doesn’t mean anything, its even consider as a bad word. Also, people in Brave New World, have none equality because they are conditioned to be different, to have different skills and likes, and like that, the government can separate them into social classes, where everyone is happy and there is no war. Furthermore, Brave New World’s god is named “Ford”, so their God, doesn’t exist neither. This world would be like an alien world for them.
According to him, 99% would rather be imprisoned for life than sentenced to the death penalty. Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, as cited in Haags argument says, "Some men, probably, abstain from murder because they fear that if they committed murder they would be hanged. Hundreds of thousands abstain from it because they regard it with horror. One great reason why they regard it with horror is that murderers are hanged”. In the article titled “The Folly of Capital Punishment”, Jeffrey Reinam concludes that capital punishment is immoral to our society; and thus, should not be legalized.
Sebastian Laszcz English III Pd.3 December 15, 2011 600 words Who is the government really looking out for? According to an article from pewresearch.org, the proportion of people that initially said that the decision to go to war was wrong has risen since 2007. Also, war can show how disconnected the government is with society because they never want to tell society what is really happening. All we know is that we have men and women risking there lives for God knows what reason, just because the government thinks that there is an actual issue to have a war over. This is just one reason why the government is disconnected from society today.
There will be no progress on the health of children that fall victim to SHS if nothing is ever put in place to stop it. It has been found that almost 60% of U.S. children from the age of 3-11 years of age, or around 22 million children are exposed. This is causing 790,000 doctor appointments for children with ear infections annually as well as 7,500 to 15,000 hospitalizations per year. The Environmental Protection Agency reported in 2008 that the medical cost for children exposed to second hand smoke is a total of more that $700 million per year. With this legislation being made into a federal law by Congress that all states must implement, it will not only save the health of children being exposed but also save the family and tax payers
In fact, cases of all vaccine-preventable diseases are down more than 97% from peak levels before vaccines were available. Vaccines are now available to protect children and adults against 15 life-threatening or debilitating diseases. • healthier mothers and babies. At the turn of the century, 140 of every 1,000 babies born alive died within their first year of life. Today, that rate is 6.3 deaths per 1,000 live births • family planning.
Gordon Brown, former prime Minister, warned ‘frail and ill people would be under pressure to end their lives if the suicide laws were changed.’ It would also risk pressure on the vulnerable people in society who may feel their existence a burden to others. A survey showed that 70% of disabled people would feel more pressure to kill themselves if the suicide law was changed. There is also the issue of people’s wishes fluctuating. Would it be making it too easy for people to end their lives and be legally helped to end their lives? Assisted Suicide is one of those controversial topics where everyone has different opinions, and everyone thinks their opinion is right.