English Common Law Chapter 7 Abortion

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Chapter 7 - Abortion
- The basics:
- Views of abortions have changed drastically throughout time and culture
- Abortifacients are substances or devices for inducing abortions
- The hippocratic oath used to prohibit them, although this was ignored by some
- Hebrew and christian scriptures do not denounce abortion or suggest a fetus is a person
- Christians generally condemn abortion and believe the fetus is a person from conception - In English common law, abortion was only a crime is perform after the quickening ( when a mother first detects fetal movement)
- A more meaningful benchmark than the quickening is viability, at 23-24 weeks a fetus may survive outside the uterus
- By the 1970s the American Medical Association and the American College

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