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EARLY PREGNANCY FROM THE ETHICAL POINT OF VIEW

Aleksandra Frković ; Medical Faculty, Rijeka


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Abstract

The legal measures for abortion regulation are directed at:
abortion prevention, freedom and restriction to some indications.
The law, deontology and conscience make the three-fold
barrier put lip against intentional abortion. However, when the
barrier prescribed by the law declines, the personal attitude
against the spread of abortion is given the greatest value. Some
consider that individual life starts with conception, but they don't
admit that it is a human being or a person. Others admit that the
foetus at conception is a human being, but not a person, while some
others give it a complete personality already at conception.
Due to the circumstances in which conception has occurred or
due to established anomalies, the foetus can be understood as
something threatening, worthless and even hateful. The closest
persons to the foetus consider that they have the exclusive right
to define its value, i.e. the father and the mother who have conceived
it; especially the mother because she bears it. The foetus
is theirs and it can be considered as a special form of property
that they would never renounce. From the ethical point of view,
human life is valuable from the beginning. It is well known that at
the moment of conception everything that will develop during intrauterine
life already exists .. It means that the human being is
from the very beginning what it is in its body and soul, and only
further formation of its body and soul is still to follow.

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Hrčak ID:

31932

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/31932

Publication date:

1.5.1996.

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