In the United States, women choose to end about 25% of their pregnancies through abortion. ... Abortifacient: medication which terminates pregnancy and induces an abortion. ... This is generally regarded as the start of pregnancy within the pro-life movement. ... But, there appears to be no consensus among experts about the point in the pregnancy when this happens. ... These are not formed until the 28th week of pregnancy. ...

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The case set boundaries and regulations illustrating how much power the mother and state possess in deciding whether to abort a pregnancy (12 Tribe). ... People who are pro-choice believe that women hold the right to abort a pregnancy, but people who are pro-life believe that abortion is wrong and unjust to the fetus. ... These women may face years of depression, guilt, and physical damage, but they still freely choose to abort their pregnancy. ... These unfair and undesirable pregnancies can prevent women from keeping jobs, feeding their families, and from creating a f...

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At some stage during pregnancy, a fetus becomes capable of feeling pain. But, there appears to be no consensus among experts about the point in the pregnancy when this happens. ... These is not formed until the third trimester, when fewer than 1% of all pregnancy terminations are done. ... Among facts that could sustain the view of pro-choice groups we found that in most of the cases they are more concerned about the future that a regular pregnancy could bring. ... The women in pregnancy have many external factors pushing her up. ...

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In other words, Abortion is the ending of pregnancy before birth. ... It is used within the first seven weeks of pregnancy. ... Besides, pregnancy rarely happens from rape. Women can get immediate medical treatment to prevent pregnancy. ... Abortion is not as safe as natural pregnancy. ...

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Also, further risks and complications are infection, retained tissue or body parts, perforation of the uterus, hemorrhaging, cervical laceration, missed abortion or continued pregnancy, blood in the uterus, and possible complications with future pregnancies. ... In 1967, "The Abortion Act" was passed; it permitted the termination of pregnancies subject to certain conditions. ... Many people believe that women can have an abortion, and that it won't further affect anyone after the termination of the pregnancy. ... There are laws which prohibit discrimination on the basis of pregnancy. ...

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However, when it comes down to it, the ultimate decision should be made by the woman who finds herself in the situation faced with an unwanted pregnancy. ... Prior to Roe Vs Wade in 1973, a woman who found herself with an unwanted pregnancy had very limited choices. ... 4) Finally, she can be forced to go through with the pregnancy. ... Why should someone who is unable to provide for that child, whether it be emotionally or materialistically be forced to carry on the pregnancy? ... Unless we find ourselves with an unwanted pregnancy, and facing the decision to abort or keep the fetus, we w...

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The sins of the child's father are not the child's fault, and rather than just try and brush over the matter by terminating the pregnancy, the effort should go into trying and bringing the rapist to justice. ... Terminating a pregnancy for such a reason amounts to murder, which is not only illegal, but is denounced by the Christian faith, "Thou shalt not kill". ... I feel that abortion; whatever the circumstance is the equivalent of murder as a foetus is viable by the fourth week and has a heart beat on the 25th day of pregnancy. ...

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People who are pro-choice believe that women hold the right to abort a pregnancy, but people who are pro-life believe that abortion is wrong and unjust to the fetus. ... The case set boundaries and regulations illustrating how much power the mother and state possess in deciding whether to abort a pregnancy (12 Tribe). ... These unfair and undesirable pregnancies can prevent women from keeping jobs, feeding their families, and from creating a favorable life-style for themselves. ... Women should not be forced to submit themselves to a life of hardships because of an unwanted pregnancy. ... A ...

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Many people feel that teenage pregnancies should not be happening. ... In the United States, abortion laws began to appear in the 1800s also in the 1800s forbidding abortion after the fourth month of pregnancy. ... Laws in the other 12 states, which included Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina and Virginia, were very restrictive, typically allowing abortion only for pregnancies due to assault rape, incest, to save the life of the mother, and for severe fetal handicap. ... During the three months of pregnancy, ...

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Pro-life vs. Pro-choice The topic of abortion is one of the most controversial of our times. It discusses human interaction where ethics, emotions and law come together. There are different points of views towards abortion. These views can be broken down into two categories, Pro-life and Pro-choic...

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Your sexual contacts lead to pregnancy no matter you like it or not. ... But let me underline the escence of what i think about abortion exactley - if pregnancy is not in any way of menace to your health and life - then don't you think you are obliged to face the results of your imprudence for example! ...

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The Right of Abortion If we really want to cut our population growth rate on a voluntary basis, we should make abortion available on a voluntary basis, at least in the early stages of pregnancy. ... Abortion is the termination of pregnancy before full development of a fetus. ... Abortion is indeed the chief method of birth control in the world today, and they estimated that about 30 million pregnancies are purposely terminated by abortion each year. ...

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People close to the mother may be angry at her for ending her pregnancy and make it difficult for her to deal with. ... Up to 33 percent of aborted women develop an intense longing to become pregnant again in order to make up for the lost pregnancy, with 18 percent succeeding within one year of the abortion (mental). Unfortunately, many women who succeed at obtaining their wanted replacement pregnancies discover that the same problems which pressured them into having their first abortion still exist, and so they end up feeling "forced" into yet another abortion (mental)....

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Many incidents occur when a woman is raped and thus leads to pregnancy, or a woman gets pregnant but does not have the money to provide a healthy living for her newborn. ... In Mary Anne Warren's article, On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, she concludes that " a women's right to protect her health, happiness, freedom, and even her life, by terminating an unwanted pregnancy, will always override whatever right to life it may be appropriate to ascribe to a fetus, even a fully developed one"(Warren). This indicates that it should ultimately be their decision whether to go throu...

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The key problem in Thomson's argument, Warren says, is that there is a crucial difference between rape and normal unwanted pregnancy. ... Now Thomson is faced with the question whether or not the child has the right to live, knowing that the pregnancy was indeed controllable. ... Laws that force women to go through with pregnancy would be unjust. ... Warren is dreaming if she thinks pregnancy can be avoided in all times other than rape. ...

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Abortion is an alternative that a woman can take for several reasons, such as if she has a health problem with her fetus or even herself; she is not ready to become a parent and have the responsibility to take care of her child; she doesn't want to be a single parent (due to relationship problems); she has been raped; or, for whatever reasons, her husband or her family encourages her to abort the pregnancy. ... I believe that if a woman aborts her pregnancy, she will have stress from the abortion, in addition to the physical stress because of the incident (if it was rape). ... The pregnan...

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When, if ever, is it right to terminate a pregnancy? ... This approach claims that in almost all cases the mother has the right to terminate a pregnancy, at any time and for any reason. ... In her article, On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, she writes that " A women's right to protect her health, happiness, freedom, and even her life, by terminating an unwanted pregnancy, will always override whatever right to life it may be appropriate to ascribe to a foetus, even a fully developed one."" ... The weaknesses in Warren's argument are that if we support the notion that ...

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I believe that abortion should also be valid if continuing the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother or will threaten the mother with physical disability and other permanent medical problems. ... In conclusion, I personally feel that abortion should continue to be legal but under at least the following circumstances; it could only be performed before 9 weeks through fetal development, and it could be performed at any time, if the pregnancy threatens the mother. ...

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Abortion is the spontaneous or artificially induced expulsion of a human fetus within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy, before it is viable. ... Wade decision held that a woman, with her doctor, could choose abortion in earlier months of pregnancy without restriction, and with restrictions in later months, based on the right to privacy. ...

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However measures and compromises can be pursued to prevents pregnancies all together, which wouldn't lead to the decision to abort, or not. ... Providing information to people and explaining the dangers, facts, and outcomes that would come along with pregnancy would prevent the argument between the life and the death of the developing zygote....

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Also defined as a surgical procedure to end a pregnancy by removing the fetus and placenta from the uterus, likewise referred to in many ways as: induced abortion; suction curettage; surgical abortion (Adam 1). ... Medicines such as oxytocin are sometimes given to cause the uterine muscles to contract and reduce the pain, most of the methods are related to the labor and birth process itself (Adam 2), but certainly the method of abortion that will be used is depending on the physician and his personal preference and skill and the policies of the hospital, but the most important factor is the ...

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Being a pregnant is not a situation everyone gets to experience and the decision to abort a pregnancy should be left up to the women. ... The women know what type of environment the child will be brought into, and should be able to make the decision to abort a pregnancy based on what she knows. ... Therefore, she decides to terminate the pregnancy. ...

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Pro-choice members support the legal right of women and girls to choose whether or not to continue a pregnancy to term. ... This issue is one of the major controversies women and the U.S. government face when it comes to pregnancy. ... Psychological disturbances that occur post-abortion are sometimes simply a continuation of negative feelings caused by unwanted pregnancy the mother feels. ...

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For men, or state or the physicians who hold control over whether pregnancy should take place and the woman to suffer alone the consequences that the decision would be best for their careeres, education, or social status came to see wrong and cruelly oppressive. ... Abortion is a horrible atrocity that should be illegal unless the mother's life is endangered by the pregnancy. ...

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ABORTION - THE ISSUE Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy. Legal abortions can be performed up until the sixteenth week of pregnancy, after sixteen weeks most doctors or clinics will not perform the procedure unless keeping the baby presents a medical risk to the mother. ...

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