Contraception Ethics 08

What is contraception ethical, scientific pov?

Scientific point of view:

• It is a voluntary prevention of pregnancy that can be used by both men and women.
• Through many methods, it gives us the possibility to choose between creating a familiy or not.
• Certains methods have changed the face of the world by giving us a possibility to prevent ourselves from sexual diseases.
• It is an easy way to control population but is against procreative liberty. (ex: China, one child policy)

Ethical :

• Contraception gave the women more rights over their body such that men got more responsibilities.
• Gave women the power not to have an unwanted child wich is linked to the fact that women have more rights.
• However, it might be considered as an inhibition of life. Do we kill somedoy before he has a chance to live? It leads us into the question of when does life begin.
• It's a dilemna between reproductive rights : first for a woman to have the right to control her body and secondly the right for everyone to live (as seen in the articles of human rights).

Websites : http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/contraception/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_rights -

When does life begin?

This is the big question of our chapter. How to define life? How does it begin ? At which step? Is it the shape of an embryo? It's capacity of thinking ? Or does a human begins as the meeting of two living cells?

First, let us focus just on contraception itself.

By using contraception, we block the way for cells to be fertilized, thus fertilization does not occur. Here we are talking about cells that by themselves do not mean anything; the cycle begins after their fusion. But the contraception is a choice of cells. Every celle thatr will be blocked by contraception looses its chance to create life. It is an intervention on the hasard of life.

This is the point where the Church disagrees

When is it a murder ?

Legislative

In Switzerland a woman has 12 weeks to decide if she wants to practice contraception. After that period of time she must consult a doctor who will examine her and decide if she is threatened about her pregnancy and if this the case she can

Where is contraception allowed?

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