What are UK abortion statistics and why are foetus not given human rights?
December 12009
What are the statistics and why are foetuses not protected under human rights (genetically they are human…) they may not have functionality but we wouldn’t dream of denying disabled people human rights?
No, a foetus IS human, you can debate when life begins but you can NOT dispute the species of a cell, be it a plant cell or an animal cell or more specifically a human cell.
Abortion can be explained as discrimination and violence against a human based upon the belief that they are not a person… same as slavery, historical sexism and general bigotry but we disagree with those and reject them as a society…
@ the rude answer, I live in the UK, I was born here and was wondering why I didn’t have the right to life before I was born… idiot… pshh.
@Jane: ‘comparing foetuses to black people’ -I didn’t: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery – It existed in history and exists today. "An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property" -so dehumanising humans. I never said anything about people of any particular race… you did…
Here are the statistics you aked about there dated 2006,that’ss the most resent I could find. The total number of abortions was 193,700, compared with 186,400 in 2005, a rise of 3.9% the age-standardised abortion rate was 18.3 per 1,000 resident women aged 15-44, compared with 17.8 in 2005. The abortion rate was highest at 35 per 1,000, for women age 19. The under-16 abortion rate was 3.9 and the under-18 rate was 18.2 per 1,000 women, both higher than in 2005. 87% of abortions were funded by the NHS; of these, just over half (55%) took place in the independent sector under NHS contract. 89% of abortions were carried out at under 13 weeks gestation; 68% were at under 10 weeks. Medical abortions accounted for 30% of the total compared with 24% in 2005. 2,000 abortions (1%) were under ground E, risk that the child would be born handicapped. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsStatistics/DH_075697
December 1st, 2009 at 10:50 am
Why should they be? Being genetically human doesn’t mean they are human. My fingers are genetically human, I didn’t have a burial when I accidentally sliced the tip of the thumb off last weekend.
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December 1st, 2009 at 11:19 am
When is a group of cells a human? might be a good question?
24 weeks in the UK – before you say a thing, a little human at 24 weeks.
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December 1st, 2009 at 11:41 am
I think the mother’s human rights come before the foetuses.
A foetus isn’t called a baby until it is out of the womb and I don’t think it is classes as a human until it is outside the womb.
I totally agree with abortion, I think the Mother has a greater importance then the child.
But if you don’t agree with it don’t have a go at people who do, just like you wouldn’t want people to tell you to have an abortion. It really pisses me off when people do that. I respect you decision so respect mine!!
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December 1st, 2009 at 11:49 am
Here are the statistics you aked about there dated 2006,that’ss the most resent I could find. The total number of abortions was 193,700, compared with 186,400 in 2005, a rise of 3.9% the age-standardised abortion rate was 18.3 per 1,000 resident women aged 15-44, compared with 17.8 in 2005. The abortion rate was highest at 35 per 1,000, for women age 19. The under-16 abortion rate was 3.9 and the under-18 rate was 18.2 per 1,000 women, both higher than in 2005. 87% of abortions were funded by the NHS; of these, just over half (55%) took place in the independent sector under NHS contract. 89% of abortions were carried out at under 13 weeks gestation; 68% were at under 10 weeks. Medical abortions accounted for 30% of the total compared with 24% in 2005. 2,000 abortions (1%) were under ground E, risk that the child would be born handicapped. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsStatistics/DH_075697
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December 1st, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Foetuses have no human rights in the UK because our law deems that a human being only has "legal personality" from the moment of birth. The legal personality ceases at the death of the brain stem.
However, there is some kind of legal personality for foetuses via the "backdoor" – someone can be legally liable in civil law for injuries to a foetus IF the mother could claim for the same.
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December 1st, 2009 at 12:40 pm
The site below has statistics on abortion in the UK. That wasn’t so hard to find.
A foetus is not given human rights because it is an insentient being meaning it has no ability to think or feel. Women, on the other hand, are living, breathing beings with thoughts and feelings who have rights over their body and do not have to provide a home for a parasitic being if they don’t wish to.
Disabled people have functionality, foetuses do not. You’re wrong. You’re also wrong in comparing foetuses to black people. How offencive do you wish to be?
When people say a foetus is not human, of course they realize it has human cells, but they’re saying it is not a human being like you and me, capable of the things you and I are capable of.
A foetus can never trump the rights of the woman, to suggest so is insulting. Abortion prevents the suffering of women and children. Pro-life is cruel.
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http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=68