PHI 2396 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Fetal Movement, Curettage, Misoprostol
10 Jan 2018
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Views of abortions have changed drastically throughout time and culture. Abortifacients are substances or devices for inducing abortions. The hippocratic oath used to prohibit them, although this was ignored by some. Hebrew and christian scriptures do not denounce abortion or suggest a fetus is a person. Christians generally condemn abortion and believe the fetus is a person from conception. In english common law, abortion was only a crime is perform after the quickening ( when a mother rst detects fetal movement) A more meaningful benchmark than the quickening is viability, at 23-24 weeks a fetus may survive outside the uterus. By the 1970s the american medical association and the american college of. Obgyns were advocating for less strict laws against abortions. Abortion is de ned as the ending of a pregnancy. When the abortion is due to natural causes such as birth defect or injury it is known s spontaneous abortion or miscarriage.
