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    Abortion and the Overall Decision to be Legal or Illegal This essay will report the different viewpoints of abortions and help clarify what really happens in an abortion. The safety of the mother in both illegal abortions and legal abortions is questionable in certain circumstances. Some procedures may cause pain to the mother even when being performed during the first trimester in safe environments. Public opinion of abortion is like many other controversial issues in the world, mainly based…

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    Roe V. Wade Research Paper

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    battle fought over centuries. Religions and choices have clashed and battled for supremacy. Laws were made and passed. The termination of pregnancy before the fetus is viable, or abortion is legal. Not only does a woman have the right to decide the state of her body but, certain circumstances make abortion the only viable option. Legal terminations are safer and cause less harm, nonetheless others say abortion is murder. Ultimately it is a woman’s legal right on procedures and decisions…

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    Government and Politics 2/27/2017 Abortion Policy in the United Kingdom and Iran The United Kingdom and Iran differ greatly in their abortion policies. While both countries protect abortions done in order to save the mother’s life, the timeline for these abortions and the number of other reasons for abortion are very different. The United Kingdom’s policies regarding abortion are ultimately more effective than Iran’s because Iran has thousands of illegal abortions each year while the…

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    Abortion is a topic that is fiercely debated in the United States. The ethics of abortions is questionable and many people dispute if it should be legal in the United States. With so many opinions and perspectives regarding abortion, it is imperative that information is gathered from reliable sources to give an accurate portrayal of what abortion is and how it affects people’s lives. The following examines a website called the Guttmacher institute, that supplies information and statistics about…

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    Arguments For Abortion

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    From the many California laws, one particular abortion law is the cause of much controversy. This controversial California law states that a parent’s approval for an underaged girl to obtain an abortion is not mandatory (National Center for Youth Law). There are many who oppose this law but there are others who support it. Parental notification and approval should be mandatory for a minor to receive an abortion since the parent/guardian is legally responsible for the minor and the underaged…

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    Approximately 1.06 million abortions happened in the year 2011.”Abortion is the termination of pregnancy before the embryo or fetus is able to live outside the uterus” as it says in Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia. People who agree with abortions and go through with them kill roughly 1.06 million babies each year which are 1.06 people that could be alive today. These babies do not have the chance me and you have at life instead they were slaughtered before they were even embryos. Mothers…

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    In the article “Reasons US Women Have Abortions: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives” it states “A Sep. 2005 survey in the peer-reviewed journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health asking women why they hand an abortion found that 73% of participants said they could not afford to have a baby, and 38% claimed giving birth would interfere with their education and career goals.” (Finer & Forthwith 13) There are many other reasons as to why women decides not to give birth to a child…

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    Philosophical Ultrasound of Abortion Abortion is an ancient practice. In ancient Greek and Latin societies, abortion was commonly practiced by doctors, especially in the case of extra-marital pregnancies . In Greece it was used to regulate the size of the population and maintain stable economic and social conditions . We lack statistics from the time to know how frequent abortion in these ancient empires was, or data that could help us study the progression on abortion practices over time and…

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    Abortion has always and will always be major political controversy, and is mainly because nobody really knows who is right or wrong. Liberal society claim, that since is their body is part of their freedoms to decide whats best for them, but then we have the conservative side of the coin that believes that abortion is wrong and we should do everything possible to promote life instead. This controversy had been going on for many, many years now, right when it looks like one side is winning, the…

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    Just recently, it was revealed that President Donald Trump is planning to announce a proposal to cut taxpayer funding from abortion clinics like Planned Parenthood later this week. Unsurprisingly, upon learning about his stunning plan, numerous pro-life activists promptly celebrated. Apparently, President Trump plans on stopping the public funding of abortion clinics by bringing back a rule previously introduced by former President Ronald Reagan that cuts off federal family planning money to…

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