Ethical Health Care Issues
Ethical Health Care Issues
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Ethical Health Care Issues Ethics are a set of philosophical guidelines that we follow as humanity. These guildelines are we use as indicators to tell us how we are supposed to act in society. While all humans are surely human we can follow a different law of ethics. For example: A man in Colorado driving a motor vehicle hits a deer that jumped onto the road. He did not kill it. He himself was unharmed. The deer, however, was obviously dying and in pain. In this culture the ethical thing to do would be to give the deer a swift death and an end to its pain. Morally the deer should be allowed to live out its life until it dies from the wounds. The man ponders the moral and ethical distinction and makes a decision. Meanwhile the same situation happened in Western Ottawa Canada but the man immediately ended the pain of the deer without a second thought. Every society in every country has ethics. They are mostly all a variation of the same set of ethical rules but they do have their distinct differences. Abortion is one of those subjects that is laden with morals versus ethics. Some have a stance while others are on the fence. Is it moral? Is it ethical? This seems to be a moral decision because the beginning of a life has never been truly given a legal determination.
Autonomy
When a woman is considering an abortion it is likely because she is confused. Since the fetus began growing the patient is receiving an influx of hormones that she would not normally have and may cause her confusion and anxiety to be on a higher level than she is used to dealing with. In situations like these it is easy for an outside influence to coerce the woman into making a decision she may or may not want. There are also great resources that give woman the benefits and drawbacks of each decision she could make. This kind of situation is a perfect example of how quickly a
University of Phoenix
Ethical Health Care Issues Ethics are a set of philosophical guidelines that we follow as humanity. These guildelines are we use as indicators to tell us how we are supposed to act in society. While all humans are surely human we can follow a different law of ethics. For example: A man in Colorado driving a motor vehicle hits a deer that jumped onto the road. He did not kill it. He himself was unharmed. The deer, however, was obviously dying and in pain. In this culture the ethical thing to do would be to give the deer a swift death and an end to its pain. Morally the deer should be allowed to live out its life until it dies from the wounds. The man ponders the moral and ethical distinction and makes a decision. Meanwhile the same situation happened in Western Ottawa Canada but the man immediately ended the pain of the deer without a second thought. Every society in every country has ethics. They are mostly all a variation of the same set of ethical rules but they do have their distinct differences. Abortion is one of those subjects that is laden with morals versus ethics. Some have a stance while others are on the fence. Is it moral? Is it ethical? This seems to be a moral decision because the beginning of a life has never been truly given a legal determination.
Autonomy
When a woman is considering an abortion it is likely because she is confused. Since the fetus began growing the patient is receiving an influx of hormones that she would not normally have and may cause her confusion and anxiety to be on a higher level than she is used to dealing with. In situations like these it is easy for an outside influence to coerce the woman into making a decision she may or may not want. There are also great resources that give woman the benefits and drawbacks of each decision she could make. This kind of situation is a perfect example of how quickly a
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