Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues Regarding Therapeutic Abortion |
| News media covering abortion often bring attention to special circumstances in which a mother requires an abortion to save her life. What exactly are these circumstances? Why is abortion required in these cases? Where are these abortions legal? What do pro-choice and pro-life ethics have to say about these abortions?
This site provides comprehensive answers to these questions such that visitors to the site do not need to be experts in medicine, law, or morality to be able to understand the pertinent issues regarding therapeutic abortion. This site does not exist to promote its creator's views regarding abortion. Rather, visitors of various political and moral perspectives should be able to learn more about the complex issues regarding a specific type of abortion -- therapeutic abortion. Importantly, therapeutic abortion refers to more than just cases in which the mother requires an abortion to save her life. Accordingly, the first subsequent page of this site defines therapeutic abortion. Visitors may feel free to browse the site according to their own interests and purposes, but visitors may also find it helpful to go from page to page in order. Click here to begin or go to a specific section by clicking on one of the links below. |