The text includes multilevel analysis of events in Łódź, described and made known to public by the journalists of „Gazeta Wyborcza” and Radio Łódź in January 2002. They influenced the interest of Łódź prosecutor's office and lead to numerous discussions and comments on the subject of ethical condition of medical professions, disappearance of ethics in medical environments and ethical dilemmas caused by those events. The authoress aims to present the state of affair after the first publications from all sides of the affair. That is why the standpoints of doctors, public opinion, journalists and politicians are presented.
This article presents the results of the analysis of media discourse around the issue of abortion, women's speech as presented on the pages of the discussion forum ABORTION, functioning on the web portal www.gazeta.pl. The primary objective of this study is to diagnose the causes of abortion decision-making by the participants of this forum. Verbalized positioned determinants of abortion in the context of considerations of a moral (right to life, consequentialism and deontological ethics). Assumptions consequentialism and deontological ethics – as an ethical context for women's right to carry out abortions – were assigned to two, opposed in public discourse in Poland standpoints: the defenders of life – pro-life groups representing the deontological approach to the issue of abortion, and the defenders of free pro-choice groups (consequentialism). After this analysis we can say that in public discourse on the issue of abortion in the analyzed online forum made it clear in the context of ethical considerations, including the nature of both topics consequential and deontological, and above all stressed the basic idea of ethics of rights – the question of the right of the unborn child to life and the scope of this right.
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