Term Papers on Abortion

Term Paper Title	Abortion
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.34

Abortion

In America, we perform abortions, execute murderers and draft men so they may die for their own country.  But if we mention the subject of euthanasia, people start to have their own opinion as to whether it is legal or illegal?  Should the patient have the right to decide on his/her illness?  There is a document that an individual can fill out in which decisions can be made in advance regarding his/her health care.

There are many people that would debate both sides of this issue.  Dr. Christian Barnard was the first person to perform a heart transplant.  He stated, "I believe that legalizing euthanasia with controls, would do more to improve the overall quality of American medical care than any other single act."  However, there are many doctors who would disagree with Dr. Barnard.  Doctors and nurses are totally responsible for saving lives.  If a life is lost to them, is is almost a personal failure to their knowledge and skills of being a doctor.

It has become quit difficult for an ill person to control his or her own medical treatment.  If a patient is unable to communicate what his/her medical preferences and treatments are and there is no family to intervene, then it is up to the doctor to decide how to medically treat the patient, even if the patient is terminally ill.  The medical profession now has a two-edged sword:  the extension of human life by artificial means and the painless termination of life by drugs.

There are two types of euthanasia.  Active euthanasia means taking deliberate steps to end the life of someone already close to death or intense physical or psychic pain.  An example of active euthanasia is a case about the Zygmaniak brothers.  George Zygmaniak, 26 was paralyzed from the neck down in a motorcycle accident.  Three days after the accident occurred, he begged his younger brother to shoot him and end his life.  Lester, George's brother, complied and later was tried for murder.

Additionally, there was a case about a woman named Charlotte Hough.  Charlotte had promised an older woman friend that she would stay with her until she was dead.  When the older woman took medication in an attempt to end her life because of the pain she was suffering from a terminal illness, she was unsuccessful.  Charlotte then place a plastic bag around the woman's head as she was instructed by her elderly friend.  Charlotte was found guilty  of attempted murder.

These cases about active euthanasia are nightmares to some people, particularl...

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