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    prosecuting anyone else under the Texas abortion law in the future. Texas ruled in favor of Roe on the grounds that the law violated her constitutional rights to privacy. The court ruled that the 9th Amendment and the 14th Amendment of the Constitution guaranteed privacy rights that were broad enough to protect a woman's choice to have an abortion because the district court refused to forbid future prosecutions for abortion. Roe and her attorneys appealed to the US Supreme Court. Wade also…

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    Utilitarian Abortion

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    What is abortion? Abortion is the immoral act of killing an innocent being. Why is abortion legal? Well, for the most part, it is really the only way of removing the baby from the fetus, to end a pregnancy, excluded plan B which is to be used early after contraception. Do you believe this act to be just? One may not believe so. So why exactly is abortion legal? It has its reasons, but in all honesty, abortion should be seen as illegal. If abortion is to be legal, shouldn’t rape or murder be…

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    Abortion Even before the settlers landed in what is now called the United State, abortions have been being performed in many cultures for many different reasons. Until the Supreme Court’s Roe versus Wade decision, states had different laws regarding abortion. This ruling helped to save many lives by helping to stop the prevalence of back alley abortions. These days, there are several different medically supervised ways to terminate pregnancies, allowing pregnant women safer options. While…

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    Abortion Should Stay Legal

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    Abortion, the removal of a fertile egg from the mother, is a prodigious social and legal issue which should remain legal. On January 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade concluded that performing abortions is legal, but the questions and concerns of the issue being socially and legally acceptable raves on. A pro-life activist would take the helm of a “War on Abortion” heaving out plenty of arguments using the fact that the egg is a living being as its foundation, while a pro-choice movement fights for the…

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    Pros And Cons On Abortion

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    There are about 1.1 million US abortions each year. Abortion is “the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy”. Abortion being legalised opens doors to many people taking advantage of the law. On the other hand, abortion becoming illegal can also lead to depressed women and women with postpartum depression. There is however a happy positive between these two negatives. Pro-Life: Every person deserves a chance, in this case that…

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    Abortion should be illegal because it should be the government who should be protecting the right to life.The government is in charge of making laws to protect the most basic human rights and our values. Abortion contradicts the purpose of those laws. Civil rights are violated when people are deprived of their basic rights in a biased way. Unborn children have the most basic right of all taken away, simply based on their location (their mother’s womb) and their developmental status. (Brown 6).…

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    Abortion is the early or premature termination of pregnancy that results in the loss of a human life. This controversial issue has been sparked debate between those with pro-life and pro-choice ideals. Pro-life advocates believe that pregnant women should not have the right to abort a human life because it would constitute murder. On the other hand, pro-choice supporters believe that women have the right to make decisions about their bodies and ultimately, the right to make a decision to either…

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    Abortion by definition is: “The deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy”. Abortion has, and may always be, one of the most controversial topics to exist. Despite the conflicts against it, I believe that women should be allowed to proceed through an abortion if that’s what they wish to do. Women have a long history of inequality, in some cases we’re still struggling. Throughout history you see women who have no control over how to…

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    Why Abortion Is Murder

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    Although abortion was not popular or commonly practiced until its legality in 1970, millions of babies’ deaths have resulted from it solely in our nation since then. As well as being a popular debate topic in today’s world, abortion is also widely practiced in the lives of thousands of American women every month. There are various reasons why abortion is so common and popular ranging from the baby being an inconvenience or distraction in the mother’s life to the more tragic rape case.…

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    Abortion has been a great controversial issue for many years. According to (National Abortion Federation), abortion first was legal in the United States. In the mid-to-late eighteen hundreds it all changed. During those times it became illegal. Now it is legal in all of the United States. In all states they at least have one abortion clinic. It has been hard to ban abortion completely. I believe that it should be illegal around the world. First off, abortion is murder. It is an innocent human…

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