Abortion, Induced - Ethics
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Overlap of premature birth and permissible abortion.

30 May 2009 Abortion is permitted in many jurisdictions after the age at which an infant is viable on the basis of intensive neonatal care techniques. Does this cause special concerns for those involved in perinatal care and termination of pregnancy services or ... Read more...

Abortion: Strong's counterexamples fail.

29 Apr 2009 This paper shows that the counterexamples proposed by Strong in 2008 in the Journal of Medical Ethics to Marquis's argument against abortion fail. Strong's basic idea is that there are cases--for example, terminally ill patients--where killing an ... Read more...

Ethical issues in treating pregnant women with severe mental illness.

30 Mar 2009 Severe mental illness tends to occur and recur among women in the reproductive period. Both the disorders and the treatments may have effects on the mother and the foetus. The clinician hence is often in a dilemma when treating pregnant women with ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Abortion, Induced - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [What is the prize of a human being?] 8 Aug 2009
• Overlap of premature birth and permissible abortion. 30 May 2009
• The concise argument. 30 May 2009
• Abortion: Strong's counterexamples fail. 29 Apr 2009
• Soldiers of a different army. 30 Mar 2009
• Ethical issues in treating pregnant women with severe mental illness. 30 Mar 2009
• Reflections: neurology and the humanities. You had the choice, Martha. 22 Mar 2009
• Reinterpreting the 'quickening' perspective in the abortion debate. 18 Mar 2009
• [Learned societies and end of life...] 15 Mar 2009
• Pregnancy-associated breast cancer and the Nuremberg Code. 30 Dec 2008
• Negative and positive claims of conscience. 30 Dec 2008
• Termination of pregnancy due to Thalassemia major, Hemophilia, and Down's syndrome: the views of Iranian physicians. 21 Dec 2008
• Common ground on surgical abortion?--engaging Peter Singer on the moral status of potential persons. 17 Dec 2008
• The abortion wars get technical. 13 Dec 2008
• Invited commentaries on... Abortion and mental health disorders. 29 Nov 2008
• Images and emotion in abortion debates. 29 Nov 2008
• Visual bioethics: seeing is believing? 29 Nov 2008
• Visual bioethics. 29 Nov 2008
• Expanding the vision of visual bioethics. 29 Nov 2008
• [Uterus scraping in induced abortion] 29 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Abortion, Induced'

Definition: Intentional removal of a fetus from the uterus by any of a number of techniques. (POPLINE, 1978)

Descriptor UI: D000028

Alternative terms: Abortion, Induced; Induced Abortion; Abortions, Induced; Induced Abortions; Abortion (Induced); Abortions (Induced); Abortion Rate; Abortion Rates; Rate, Abortion; Rates, Abortion; Abortion Techniques; Abortion Technique; Technique, Abortion; Techniques, Abortion; Abortion Technics; Abortion Technic; Technic, Abortion; Technics, Abortion; Abortion, Drug-Induced; Abortion, Drug Induced; Abortions, Drug-Induced; Drug-Induced Abortion; Drug-Induced Abortions; Previous Abortion; Abortion, Previous; Abortions, Previous; Previous Abortions; Abortion History; Abortion Histories; Histories, Abortion; History, Abortion; Abortion, Saline-Solution; Abortion, Saline Solution; Abortions, Saline-Solution; Saline-Solution Abortion; Saline-Solution Abortions; Abortion, Soap-Solution; Abortion, Soap Solution; Abortions, Soap-Solution; Soap-Solution Abortion; Soap-Solution Abortions; Anti-Abortion Groups; Anti Abortion Groups; Anti-Abortion Group; Group, Anti-Abortion; Groups, Anti-Abortion; Embryotomy; Embryotomies; Fertility Control, Postconception; Postconception Fertility Control; Abortion Failure; Abortion Failures; Failure, Abortion; Failures, Abortion; Abortion, Rivanol; Abortions, Rivanol; Rivanol Abortion; Rivanol Abortions;

Related Mesh Headings: Aborted Fetus;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; rehabilitation; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E04.520.050;

Online Note: use ABORTION, INDUCED to search EMBRYOTOMY 1966-85; search ABORTION, CRIMINAL & ABORTION, LEGAL & ABORTION, THERAPEUTIC 1966-70

History Note: 71; was see under ABORTION, CRIMINAL & ABORTION, THERAPEUTIC 1963-70, was see under ABORTION, LEGAL 1964-70; EMBRYOTOMY was heading 1963-85

Technical Notes: do not use /util except by MeSH definition; for use of an abortifacient here or in ABORTION, CRIMINAL, coord IM with abortifacient agent (IM with no qualif, not /adv eff unless text specifically discusses adverse eff); don't forget also check tags FEMALE & PREGNANCY