“In your view, would it be ethically desirable for English medical law: To restrict the circumstances in which an abortion is legally permissible? Module: 22107 Medicine, Ethics and the Law”

The issue in question requires an examination into considerations of ethical theories to be measured against the restriction of what is permissible in the legal framework governing abortion, with a view of whether if the restriction in the special circumstances  were to be imposed would create an ethically desirable outcome in light of the preferred ethical viewpoint of rights theory to reproductive autonomy, feminist ethics and incidental values that is patient autonomy, medical paternalism, sanctity of life  of the fetus which underpins this discussion.

The focus of the issue at hand is to be drawn from the perspective of how womens rights, autonomy as an individual as well as the significant role of feminist ethics and the role of medical practitioners such as doctors and health institutions as a whole that may affect the decisional freedom of women in general regarding abor…(short extract)