2008年12月12日金曜日

Is abortion the same as murder?

When I took Mr. Satoru Ito(he is a professor of Religious Beliefs)'s class last year, he said that in the law, a baby is considered as a human being when his/her head is half out of the mother's body. From this point of view, abortion is not a murder as all of the body of the baby is still inside the mother. But thinking of losing a possibility of one life, I cannot strongly disagree that abortion is not same as murder.

2008年12月5日金曜日

National Abortion Federation

・The name of the group.
National Abortion Federation
・The specific issue the group deals with.
Abortion
・The group's mission statement and Goals that the group strives to achieve.
It is to ensure safe, legal and accessible abortion cae to promote health and justice for woman.
・Concrete ways that the NGO tries to achieve its goals.
Holding interns such as clinic defence intern, communications intern, public policy intern and training and education intern.
・How the group is different from others in its goals or methods?
・Groups with which it networks (i.e., cooperates with on projects or activities).
・How does the group keep itself running (i.e., by fund-raisning activities, donations, etc.)?
・If the group does fund-raising activities, please describe them.
They ask for donation on their home page.
・How does it recruit new members to the group?
You can request to be a member from the home page by filling in a form.
・How does it make the media interested in its activities?
・What's your overall impression of the group? Is it a group that you would ever consider joining?
I thought this group is a very active group but I don't know if I would ever consider joining because abortion is a problem that needs scientific knowledge to work on.