12:22:24 This is a course Biomedical Ethics. I am Professor Philip, you know, The topic of this video is abortion.
12:22:43 This issue. Abortion is one that the West is one grave concern that arouses quite a few people wrongly.
12:22:47 And it does lead to laws, and then being challenged and revisions made over the last few decades in the United States, religions of the West, Judaism, Christianity and Islam place a high value on human life.
12:23:07 interpreting one of the basic commandments.
12:23:10 Thou shalt not kill will include the killing of children by any means, including prior to their being born.
12:23:21 So abortion, was regarded as something. The avoided. Something morally incorrect, as opposed to the will of God.
12:23:32 Over the centuries sections have been made in a way in which people are thinking has changed, and laws have therefore been revised court decisions have been made, who interpret the laws as applying and not applying to certain cases.
12:23:57 In the United States, the Supreme Court of the United States in 1965 accepted that abortions would not be in violation of law under certain circumstances.
12:24:07 During a certain period of time of the pregnancy.
12:24:12 Since then, there have been many many more cases to try and further interpret what the Constitution of the United States permits. And what that first Supreme Court decision does and doesn't permit support.
12:24:31 There are factual conceptual. And then of course the ethical concerns related to abortion.
12:24:37 There are various conditions under which abortions performed. There are various methods for performing abortions.
12:24:45 And one of the most contentious of all is the partial birth abortion.
12:24:53 There are some procedures that people might not even consider as an abortion because it doesn't involve so invasive procedure, physically, and that would be the chemically induced abortion, so called morning after pill being one example of it.
12:25:09 So we deal with the factual issues concerning the variety of ways in which a pregnancy can be terminated deliberate as abortion conceptual issue in prison from the very beginning and two different ways.
12:25:28 One is whether or not a developing fetus is to be considered a person and have the rights of a person associated with it.
12:25:38 If so, then it's far more serious and the ethical principles apply in a way that they What if the developing fetus are not considered a human person, and entitled to the rights there of, and to the application of ethical principles to that person.
12:26:00 In addition, we have a bit of a conceptual issue with whether or not a naturally occurring emanation of a pregnancy is being considered abortion at all.
12:26:13 It is sometimes called a miscarriage.
12:26:16 And that would not usually be considered an abortion in terms of where the ethical consideration because human beings, would not be deliberately inducing terminating the development, the fetus would be a naturally occurring event.
12:26:36 So, when considering abortion from the ethical point of view, It will be delivered terminations, and we will you have a variety of approaches to the question of whether or not it's more.
12:26:52 To do so, morally good that is depending on the ethical principle that you employ people with different ideas about life. the value of life.
12:27:05 very difficult decision for the human beings who are carrying the developing fetus as to how they consider it as a person or not a person, the conditions under which they became pregnant.
12:27:30 Their intention.
12:27:32 When becoming pregnant.
12:27:34 And they have it's worthy of consideration and sensitive consideration that no matter how we differ in our moral judge.
12:27:47 We should appreciate the circumstances of individuals who are confronted with the question.
12:27:54 Where the option of whether to terminate a pregnancy, or not.
12:27:59 Hopefully.