Beginning of Pregnancy Controversy

Beginning Of Pregnancy Controversy

Controversy over the beginning of pregnancy usually occurs in the context of the abortion debate. Depending on where pregnancy is considered to begin, some methods of birth control or infertility treatment might be considered abortifacient. The controversy is not primarily a scientific issue since knowledge of human reproduction and development has become very refined, but rather is primarily a linguistic and definitional question. The issue may also have social, medical, political and legal ramifications if one equates the "beginning of pregnancy" with the "beginning of an individual human being's life".

Read more about Beginning Of Pregnancy Controversy:  Definitions of Pregnancy Beginning, Legal Implications, History, Birth Control – Mechanism of Action, Viability and Established Pregnancy, Ethics of Preventing Implantation, Detectable Pregnancy, Philosophical Issues

Famous quotes containing the words beginning of, beginning, pregnancy and/or controversy:

    “The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not “Am I really that oppressed?” but “Am I really that boring?””
    —Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)

    “We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    “The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a personally invasive question as “Is your wife having natural childbirth or is she planning to be knocked out?” But someone might ask that of you. No matter how much you wish for privacy, your pregnancy is a public event to which everyone feels invited.”
    —Jean Marzollo (20th century)

    “Ours was a highly activist administration, with a lot of controversy involved ... but I’m not sure that it would be inconsistent with my own political nature to do it differently if I had it to do all over again.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)