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    Abortion is referred to as “the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed before the first 28 weeks of pregnancy”. It is also one of the most controversial debates in the country at the moment, and has been for a long time. The whole debacle started with the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, which is the case that allowed abortions to be practiced. There are many reasons for why I, and many others, believe that they should be allowed. Our point of view is called…

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    Should abortion be legal? This has been a very controversial topic of the past years. According to Marshall Medoff, abortion is a procedure women choose to undergo to end her pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it can survive outside the uterus (158). Although many people are anti­abortionist or pro­life, people who believe women shouldn’t have the right to abortions. The other side of the argument is the pro­choice side, those who believe every women deserves the right to abort an…

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    Abortion has been and continues to be one of the most extensive controversies in America. According to http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_OAL.pdf, “...Abortion is legal on request of the mother in four states, legal in case of danger to women’s health, rape or incest, or likely damaged fetus in thirteen states, legal in case of danger to woman’s health in two states, legal in case of rape in one state, and illegal in thirty states.” There are various reasons why individuals feel…

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    Abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy when there are no serious health risks has been a controversial topic for quite some time. The main argument against elective abortion is that it infringes upon the fetus’s right to life. As well, opponents state that it dismisses any potential future the fetus may have had as a human being and therefore takes away from society by depriving it of a potential successful member of society. However, these arguments can be dismissed when considering the…

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    that will be held over their heads for the rest of their life. Why would someone take the life away from someone they just created? I do not agree with taking a part in abortions and I don’t know why anyone would. The first reason I do not agree with abortions is that it takes away the life of an…

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    Abortion has been one of the biggest controversies of all time. Many believe it to be immoral and even consider it to be murder. Abortion is the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus prior to it becoming capable of normal growth. People who are pro-life who do not support this process believe it should be illegal. Most of these pro-life supporters do not understand that if abortions were illegal, they would still be performed, most likely by uneducated people. Abortion being accepted is…

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    Forty-two million abortions are performed worldwide each year. That's more than the entire population of Canada, which would cost unprepared families over five hundred billion dollars in just one year. To kill an unborn with horrible procedures is not only wrong for the doctors, but morally wrong too. As a society we lean towards economic explanations for behaviour, and in some ways this makes sense. People are guided by money in their choice of job. While tax accountant might not be most…

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    a death brings. Abortion was legalized in 1973 by the Supreme Court in case Roe vs. Wade. The law was legalized in order to sustain a woman’s so called ‘fundamental right’ contending that the choosing of abortion should not be limited by governmental or religious authority. With that being said, An unborn baby 's’ heart starts beating at approximately 20 days, the brain also starts sending brain waves off at 40 days, therefore in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, abortion is defined as…

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    Fetal Rights The rising number of abortions in the United States and worldwide have created many disputes on whether aborting is ethically and lawfully acceptable. In the United States, there was 1.2 million abortions done in the year of 2008 (Are you in the know, n.d). There were about 42 million abortions worldwide (Are you, n.d). Many have different positions in the controversy. The topic about the rights of the fetus has become such a heated controversy due to the different belief system…

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    Abortion is a huge problem that has caused a wide range of controversy all over the United States. There are two sides to the problem, which are people who oppose abortion or support it. Abortion becomes a big deal when trying to decide whether a fetus should be considered a human being already when a woman aborts. In my case I believe that a woman should not be able to abort a child inside her unless there is some type of serious medical issue where the child may not come out alive. When a…

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