Topic:Abortion |
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Issue 01: | Should abortions be allowed when continuing a pregnancy would put the mother's life at serious risk?
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| Viewpoint 01: | No.
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes.
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Issue 02: | Should abortions be allowed when the mother's physical health is at serious risk?
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| Viewpoint 01: | No.
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes.
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Issue 03: | Should abortions be allowed when the mother's mental or emotional health are at serious risk?
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| Viewpoint 01: | No.
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes.
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Issue 04: | Should abortions be allowed when the mother's financial resources are inadequate to support another child?
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| Viewpoint 01: | No.
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Issue 05: | Should abortions be allowed when the fetus is unlikely to survive to term?
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| Viewpoint 01: | No.
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes.
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Issue 06: | Should abortions be permitted when the fetus is likely to be born with very serious defects?
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| Viewpoint 01: | No.
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes.
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Issue 07: | Should abortions be permitted when the fetus has a defect that will reduce its quality of life once born?
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| Viewpoint 01: | No.
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Issue 08: | Should an abortion be allowed when the pregnancy is the result of rape?
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| Viewpoint 01: | No.
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes.
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Issue 09: | Should an abortion be permitted when the pregnancy is the result of incest?
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| Viewpoint 01: | No.
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes.
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Issue 10: | Should an abortion be permitted when the pregnancy was unplanned, or the result of an accident?
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| Viewpoint 01: | No.
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Issue 11: | Should the approval of a woman's spouse be required for an abortion?
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| Viewpoint 01: | No.
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes.
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Issue 12: | Should the approval of a minor woman's parent(s) be required for an abortion?
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes.
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Issue 13: | Should the approval of a disabled woman's guardian(s) be required for an abortion?
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes.
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Issue 14: | Should a woman's spouse be required to be notified prior to her having an abortion?
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| Viewpoint 01: | No.
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes.
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Issue 15: | Should a minor woman's parent(s) be required to be notified prior to her having an abortion?
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes.
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Issue 16: | Must a disabled woman's guardian(s) be notified prior to her having an abortion?
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes.
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Issue 17: | If
a woman seeks an abortion during her 1st trimester but is refused by
law, which party should be responsible for the social and financial
welfare of the resulting child?
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| Viewpoint 01: | The mother and her spouse.
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| Viewpoint 03: | The mother and her spouse, with support from the state.
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Issue 18: | If a person assaults a pregnant woman and consequently causes the fetus to die, should that person be liable for murder?
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| Viewpoint 01: | No.
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes.
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Issue 19: | When does the government's interest in protecting rights of a developing embryo/fetus begin?
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| Viewpoint 01: | At fertilization.
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| Viewpoint 06: | At some indefinable point prior to birth.
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Issue 20: | As a fetus develops rights as it develops, how do its rights compare to the rights of the mother?
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| Viewpoint 01: | The fetus' rights trump those of the mother.
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| Viewpoint 03: | The rights of the mother and the fetus must be balanced against each other.
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Issue 21: | Is the balance struck by the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision between unborn and mother's rights appropriate?
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| Viewpoint 01: | Yes, the balance is reasonable.
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| Viewpoint 03: | No, Roe v. Wade does not give enough emphasis to the unborn's rights.
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Issue 22: | Is
it appropriate for the government to based its regulation of abortion
on the perceived 'gruesomeness' of the abortion procedure?
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| Viewpoint 01: | No.
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes
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Issue 23: | Does
removing the availability the so-called 'partial birth abortion'
technique sometimes create increased risk to the mother's health?
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| Viewpoint 01: | No
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| Viewpoint 02: | Yes
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Issue 25: | Should a woman who deliberately plans, arranges for and undergoes an abortion, be charged with murder?
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| Viewpoint 02: | No.
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Issue 26: | Should a doctor who conducts an abortion be charged with murder?
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| Viewpoint 01: | Yes.
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| Viewpoint 02: | No.
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Issue 27: | Should
incidents of stillbirths and allegedly spontaneous abortions be
investigated by law enforcement authorities for the possibility of
making murder charges against the woman?
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| Viewpoint 02: | No.
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Issue 29: | Should
abortions be allowed to terminate ectopic (sometimes called tubular)
pregnancies and other situations in which the embryo's chances of
survival are very low-to-none, and the risk to the mother is very high?
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| Viewpoint 01: | Yes.
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| Viewpoint 02: | No.
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Issue 32: | Are most abortions done against the will of the woman (that is, coerced)?
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| Viewpoint 02: | No.
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Issue 33: | Should women be required to submit to counseling about abortion alternatives, prior to having an abortion?
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| Viewpoint 01: | Yes.
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| Viewpoint 02: | No.
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