In all societies, women have for many reasons, sought to terminate pregnancies. ... The Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle discussed abortion as a useful means of population control. ... Almost half of American women have terminated at least one pregnancy, and millions more Americans of both sexes have helped them, as partners, parents, health-care workers, counselors, and friends. ...
Warren also fails to mention that abortions can damage a women's health. She says that it is the women's body and that she has the right to do what she wants to with it, to keep it healthy, but misses the point that abortions are not healthy for the women physically and mentally. ... She says that unless women get convenient and readily available procreative choice they will stay second class citizens. This can be seen in the western world where women have access to the means of procreative choice and have made positive steps toward equality and respect. ... Grisez's adapts Ar...
Disagreements between public policy, morality and individual behavior on this issue existed even at the time of Plato and Aristotle. ... For reasons of women's right to self-determination, protection of their health, rape or incest, old age, and adequate care of children who are born in order to prevent child abuse and mental disease, easy access to abortion is a must. ... Women with incomes under eleven thousand are over three times more likely to abort than those with incomes above twenty-five thousand. Unmarried women are four to five times more likely to abort than married and the ab...
Rates of abortions have changed little between 2003 and 2008,, forty percent of the world's women had access to legal induced abortions "without restriction as to reason". ... The American Psychological Association has concluded that a single abortion is not a threat to women's mental health, and that women are no m...
