[Analysis of attitudes about abortion].
This paper analysis the attitudes about abortion exploring the responses of the Medical Bioengineering Faculty's students to a series of questions about the conditions under which legal abortions should be available and tried to identify some of the reasons why abortion attitudes vary from person to person.
Abstract
Today two clear trends can be discerned in the development of attitudes about abortion over the last century or so. The first corresponds to that category of "bio-power" described by Foucault as a bio-politics of the population. The second trend, closely related, concerns the transformation of abortion from a largely criminal to a largely therapeutic procedure, that is, one which is said to be performed in the interests of preserving or enhancing the health and well-being of the woman or her existing children. This paper analysis the attitudes about abortion exploring the responses of the Medical Bioengineering Faculty's students to a series of questions about the conditions under which legal abortions should be available and tried to identify some of the reasons why abortion attitudes vary from person to person.