Abortion by Keith Layman https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun Post a statistic or fact (include your source!) that you think is important to know regarding abortion. en-us 2017-04-19 18:29:16 UTC 2025-12-12 15:22:55 UTC hello@padlet.com Add Plan B laymank1 https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/360810506 2019-05-16 14:29:43 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/360810506 Legal vs Illegal https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361773990 Induced abortion is medically safe when WHO-recommended methods are used by trained persons, less safe when only one of those two criteria is met, and least safe when neither is met.  ]]> 2019-05-20 15:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361773990 Completely criminalized in El Salvador and Dominican Republic https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361774124 2019-05-20 15:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361774124 American courts have consistently decided that a woman's right to an abortion can't be vetoed by a husband, partner or ex-boyfriend, and also that a woman doesn't have to notify the father that she intends to have an abortion https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361774213 2019-05-20 15:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361774213 Post-Abortion Treatment https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361774534  40% of women who experience complications never receive treatments for post-abortion (if done unsafely), increasing possible later health risks]]> 2019-05-20 15:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361774534 https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361774649 American courts have found laws requiring the fathers consent for abortion to be unconstitutional ]]> 2019-05-20 15:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361774649 Motives: Cannot afford child, pregnant from rape, pregnant from incest, not ready for parenthood/support child, danger to the mother, child has a disease https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361774757 2019-05-20 15:15:00 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361774757 In the 18th century, in America, abortions were legal until women could feel the fetus moving. madisonmurray https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775329 2019-05-20 15:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775329 Studies found most women talked with their partners about getting an abortion before actually doing it but the women who didn't were more likely in an abusive relationship. https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775449 2019-05-20 15:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775449 Abortion in Ireland is unrestricted during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775451 2019-05-20 15:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775451 Women do not legally need permission from the husband/bf to abort the baby https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775471 http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/legal/fathers.shtml]]> 2019-05-20 15:16:36 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775471 Is is not against the Jewish religion to get an abortion. A person is not a person until they are born is what was roughly said in their sacred texts https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775501 2019-05-20 15:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775501 https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775581 Stage 1: First Month in it is smaller than a grain of rice.  Heart Beat around 6 weeks.  
Stage 2:  Reproductive organs start to show. Movement in the fetus. Eyelids begin to form and other extremities.
Stage 3; Hearing fully develops. All organs are fully developed. Contractions and labor

]]> 2019-05-20 15:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775581 Current laws https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775675 42 states have it set up where the abortion must be performed by a licensed physician.19 states it must be performed in a hospital after a certain point in pregnancy. Then 19 other states need a second physician at some point.

Then 43 states prohibition after a certain point with the exception of if it in danger the life of the women 

20 states have laws in effect  that prohibit something called partial Birth abortion which allows for the viewing and examination of the corpse the way this is performed is also used in late miscarriages.

16 states use there own funds for all medical necessary abortion while 33 other states and D.C prohibit the use of state funds when federal ones are available.

11 states restrict the coverage of  abortion in private insurance plans most of the time they limit it until the women life is put endanger. However most states due allow for the purchase of additional abortion coverage for an additional fee.]]> 2019-05-20 15:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775675 Originally, abortions were part of life, and there were advertised drugs and procedures to induce them. Concerns over abortion were not religious or moral, they were about potential poisoning. The Catholic Church did not condemn abortions either and did not support the view of life beginning at conception until later in the 1860s. https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775776 2019-05-20 15:17:09 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775776 In Canada, abortion is legal for any reason at any state in pregnancy https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775815 2019-05-20 15:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775815 How It's Done https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775968 Most abortions are performed using ‘suction aspiration’. To have this procedure One needs to be in the first trimester of pregnancy. The cervix opening is gradually widened with rods of increasing size and a slim tube is then inserted into the uterus. The pregnancy is withdrawn with gentle suction. Another instrument called a curette is used to check the uterus is empty. This operation takes less than 15 minutes.]]> 2019-05-20 15:17:19 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361775968 Legal Abortion Death Statistics https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361776315 The death rate from abortion is extremely low: 0.6 per 100,000 procedures, according to the World Health Organization 
Legalization of abortion allows women to obtain timely abortions, thereby reducing the risk of complications. ]]> 2019-05-20 15:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361776315 Doctors who preform abortions in Alabama could face a 99 year sentence https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361776662 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/abortion-law-alabama.html]]> 2019-05-20 15:18:52 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361776662 Abortion in China is freely available with no defined time limits, but sex-selective abortion is prohibited. https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361776794 2019-05-20 15:19:08 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361776794 https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361776844 - Early non-surgical (medical) abortion- drugs given to stop the pregnancy
-Vacuum aspiration- requires local anesthetic and the unborn child and placenta are suctioned out
- Dilation and Evacuation- Cervix is slowly opened and the mother is put under anesthetic and the unborn child and placenta is removed with forceps and suction 
-Labor Induction- Drugs are given to the mother to terminate the pregnancy and begin labor ]]> 2019-05-20 15:19:13 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361776844 Doctors could face far more time than sexual offenders/rapists. https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361777630 2019-05-20 15:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361777630 https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361777921 In 1971 Roe v Wade established that women could get an abortion in the first 2 trimesters of the pregnancy ]]> 2019-05-20 15:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361777921 colorado was the first state to liberalize abortion- in 1967 https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361779203 2019-05-20 15:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361779203 Court Cases https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361779397 Roe v. Wade - First three months of pregnancy, you can get an abortion no questions asked. 

Webster v. RHS - Refers back to Roe v. Wade, no real changes in federal abortion law

Planned Parenthood v. Casey - Everything in Roe v. Wade was maintained, except spouse awareness was tried, but ultimately it was shot down due to the fact it went against 14th amendment]]> 2019-05-20 15:24:02 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361779397 The Roman Catholic church prohibits abortion in all circumstances https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361779657 2019-05-20 15:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361779657 https://theconversation.com/there-is-more-than-one-religious-view-on-abortion-heres-what-jewish-texts-say-116941 https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361779948 2019-05-20 15:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361779948 https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/21/where-major-religious-groups-stand-on-abortion/ https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361780219 2019-05-20 15:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361780219 https://www.pewforum.org/2008/09/30/abortion-laws-around-the-world/ https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361780294 2019-05-20 15:25:46 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361780294 In Poland, it is legal to have an abortion under certain circumstances and they have the lowest recorded abortion rate in Europe. 2 abortions per 1,000 lives. https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361780729 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/05/abortion-laws-around-the-world-from-bans-to-easy-access]]> 2019-05-20 15:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361780729 In 2003, a federal ban on abortion procedures is passed and signed by President Bush. The National Abortion challenged this and won the lawsuit against this. https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361781639 2019-05-20 15:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361781639 Rape/Incest https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361781995  Rape and incest are similar in the sense that both are criminal acts. In our system of justice, we punish the criminal. We do not punish the victim, nor do we punish the criminal’s children. We are told, however, that if pregnancy occurs as a result of rape or incest, offering the victim an abortion is the compassionate thing to do. ]]> 2019-05-20 15:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/garnetvalleyschooldistrict/7jd44tegciun/wish/361781995