Even with teenage pregnancy figures declining, this is a prevalent dilemma in the United States. The majority of teen pregnancies, approximately 78 percent are unintentional. Studies from the mid-1990s indicate that 43 percent of pregnancies to teenage girls, ages 15-19 end in unintended births and yet another 35 percent end in abortions. ... "Pro-choice" supporters believe that early abortions are morally acceptable and some believe abortion at any time during the pregnancy is acceptable. ... If she deems that she cannot raise the child at this stage in her life or go through the 9-month preg...

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Therefore terminating a pregnancy at any time throughout the pregnancy is impermissible. ... Originally it also included that husbands had to be informed of their wife's choice to terminate pregnancy. ... Abortion disrupts the natural processes of pregnancy, and the procedure can have harmful effects on the body. ... Therefore the fetus is not seen as a human being, so there is no ethical issue with terminating an unwanted pregnancy. ... The ultimate goal of an abortion is to end the pregnancy, and adoption does not solve that problem....

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It cannot be viable in the early months of woman's pregnancy and it is still a part of its mother "s body. ... There are many reasons for not wishing to continue a pregnancy: 1) the woman may be too young or too old. Teenager pregnancy is a good example. ... I believe in the right of a woman to terminate a pregnancy before it harms to the life of baby and the mother. ... Man can just walk a way with pregnancy but woman is the one who go through nine months of pregnancy alone with like I mentioned it before, mentally and physically. ...

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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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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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Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines abortion as: the termination of pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus a: spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first twelve weeks of gestation. ... First of all, abortion is the "termination of pregnancy". Stopping the women's pregnancy means to destroy the embryo or the fetus. ... The matter of when a fetus feels pain is also debatable since brain structure and nerve-cell connection that characterize the thinking and feeling part of the brain will not develop...

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For example, when pro-choice activist support abortions due to unwanted pregnancies, the activists are not rallying behind the idea of sexual incompetence, sometimes pregnancies due to lack of birth control. ... Congenital defects, is when deformities within the baby are detected during an early stage of pregnancy. ... Economics can also include cases such as teen age pregnancies The anti-abortionists have numerous reasons for their beliefs, and many of them are attached to their religion ideals. Religious ideals, range from having an abortion before 120 days after the pregnancy, such as in I...

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(Page 284) He described that abortion can only be justified when (1) to save the mother from the most extreme harm or else (2) to save the mother from a lesser harm when the pregnancy was the result of the wrongful acts of others for which the woman had no responsibility, or when (3) it can be claimed for a defective or diseased fetus that it has a right not to be born. ... "When the pregnancy was the result of the wrongful acts of others for which the women has no responsibility." ... In my opinion, abortion is not the real problem; the real problem is what should we do in order to prevent t...

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America Split in Two Women have the right to there body and anti abortion is impeding that right. Abortion has been one the most controversial subjects in American history both socially and politically. America has split in to two sides; pro - choice and pro - life. In January 22, 1973 U. S Supre...

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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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Abortion is the unnatural end of pregnancy and should be illegal except in instances when the mother or child's life is in danger. ... Let us make this unplanned or unwanted pregnancy a win-win situation for everyone by doing the right thing, either raising the child or giving it up for adoption. ...

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They discovered these same herbs could be used early in pregnancy to abort a fetus (Lowenstein, 24-26). ... (Gibbs, 44) if taken within seven weeks of pregnancy. ... According to pro-lifer's It is not uncommon, say pro-lifers, for women to become upset they have killed their unborn baby, and start a 'replacement' pregnancy. ... This drug if used within seven weeks of pregnancy is safe and will not cause as many complications as a traditional abortion on a doctor's office. In a traditional abortion women are at risk in future pregnancies like excessive bleeding, premature de...

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Despite laws permitting abortion in the cases where a continued pregnancy poses a physical threat to the mother, in practice abortion remains unavailable in all situations because the law defining the circumstances under which a doctor may perform a life-saving abortion is so ambiguous. ... Many women, particularly those living on benefit or on low wages, are forced to continue unwanted pregnancies because they cannot raise the money on time to get an abortion. It is often those least able to cope with a child, or another child, who are unable -- because of poverty -- to choose whether or not...

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In America, it is legal to abort a baby through all nine months of pregnancy, but it is important to realize: "That children much younger than nine months are dynamic and alive as well. ... Another would be that if the victims were to go through the pregnancy they would have conquered the rape, and by giving birth she can receive some of her self-esteem. ... There are many ways around the social, emotional, economic and physical struggles, young parents go through during pregnancy. For example, pregnancycenters.org is one great site dedicated to young struggling parents going through pregnan...

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According to Carey Goldberg and Janet Elder in the New York Times article dated, January 16, 1998, "In a poll that was given in 1989, when people were asked whether a pregnant woman should be able to get a legal abortion if her pregnancy would force her to interrupt her career, 37 percent said yes and 56 percent said no; In 1998, only 25 percent said yes and 70 percent said no. ... I also believe it is important for a young teenage girl to have the right to continue her education and to make her own decisions regarding an unwanted pregnancy. Whereas, a young woman with a career facing similar...

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Suction is applied through the tube and the pregnancy is terminated. ... The termination usually occurs within 12 hours of beginning the second course of tablets when the woman passes the pregnancy vaginally. ... Pro-choice is the name given to those who believe that abortion should be legal and freely available to those women who wish to terminate their pregnancy. ... That each woman should have the right to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes. ...

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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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The Constitutional Question Should people be allowed access to drugs or devices designed to stop contraception, and thus be able to engage in sex without having to worry as much about pregnancy? ... This decision also paved the way for Roe v Wade, which acknowledged that women's privacy included a right to determine whether or not their own pregnancy should be carried to full term. ...

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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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The first type, abortion from above is generally called a hysterectomy, which is done late in the pregnancy (Abortion TV). ... Menstrual extraction, which is done very early, most often before the pregnancy test even comes back positive (Abortion TV). ... This is typically done in the advanced stages of pregnancy. ...

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The first type, abortion from above is generally called a hysterectomy, which is done late in the pregnancy (Abortion TV). ... Menstrual extraction, which is done very early, most often before the pregnancy test even comes back positive (Abortion TV). ... This is typically done in the advanced stages of 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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