Introduction: An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by loss or destruction of a fertilized egg, embryo or fetus before birth. ... An induced or medical abortion is one that is brought about by taking medications or using instruments stop the normal course of pregnancy. ... Facts: Internal Summary: 90% of abortions in America are performed during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Each year almost half of all pregnancies among American women are unintended. About half of the unplanned pregnancies (1.3 million) end in abortion. ...

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While it can be used in the second trimester, it is typically used in cases of doomed pregnancies early in the third trimester of pregnancy. ... Electrical brain waves are detected as early as forty days of a pregnancy. ... Pregnancy from rape is extremely rare. ... Medically, we know pregnancy in these cases would be rare. ... Brain waves are detected within forty days of the pregnancy. ...

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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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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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Wade observed the Supreme Court of the United States rule in favor for a woman to bear the constitutional right to an abortion within the first two trimesters of pregnancy. ... Wade, and ruled that the states could restrict abortions only during the final three months of pregnancy, a stage when medical experts considered the fetus capable of "meaningful life" outside the womb. ... Rhenquist, expresses an opposing view on women's right to terminate pregnancy. ... He argues against the guidelines of trimesters of pregnancy, noting that Roe could have been in "her last trimester of pregn...

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In the Middle Ages in Western Europe abortion was generally accepted in the beginning months of pregnancy. ... Wade abortions were permitted only within the first six months of pregnancy. ... Wade case decision stated that abortion is legal but only in the first trimester of pregnancy. ... One type is Medical Abortion which is an abortion brought on by taking medications to end a pregnancy instead of having a surgical abortion. ...

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McCorvey did not want to continue her pregnancy. ... Second, if McCorvey gave birth, or passed the point in her pregnancy where an abortion could not be safely performed, the case would become irrelevant. ... She wrote that she "wanted to terminate my pregnancy because of the economic hardship which my pregnancy entailed and because of the social stigma attached to the bearing of illegitimate children on our society." ... Specific and direct harm medically diagnosable in even early pregnancy may be involved. ... Woman who wanted to end their pregnancy before abortion was legal usually had back...

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Methods available to prevent pregnancy come in many different forms. ... Norplant, a set of six tiny capsules placed into a woman's arm, provides protection from pregnancy for five years. ... Combining any of these methods decreases the chances of pregnancy. ... If for any reason pregnancy does occur, there are only two acceptable options. ... Making the Right Choice-Facts for Teens on Preventing Pregnancy. ...

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The law bans abortion after the second trimester during the pregnancy and also bans partial-abortion. ... The problem begins with should it be a woman's choice whether or not to terminate her pregnancy or should it be the government's choice. ... One third to one half of all pregnancies in the United States end in abortion, 2,500 of these abortions will be performed illegally. ... 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 careers, education, o...

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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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Each year 75 million women have unwanted pregnancies. ... Only women should have the right to decide what to do about their pregnancies. ... Unfortunately, during the early stage of pregnancy something could happen to the woman's husband. ... The woman has some risk at not being able to get pregnant again, especially if it is her first pregnancy. ... It would probably reduce a percentage of unwanted pregnancies. ...

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The problem begins with should it be a women's choice whether or not to terminate her pregnancy or should it be the Governments choice. ... Roe alleged that she was unmarried and pregnant; that she wished to terminate her pregnancy by an abortion performed by a competent, licensed physician, under safe clinical conditions. ... One third to one half of all pregnancies in the United States end in abortion, 2,500 of these abortions will be performed illegally. ... This was usually about the fourth month of pregnancy. ... Later in 1997, a growing number of clinics use techniques tha...

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More than fifty- percent of pregnancies among American women are unintended; half of these are terminated by abortion. ... The suit was that Norma wanted a legal abortion, yet she was not able to get one because the pregnancy was not considered as life threatening. ... Four out of every ten teens pregnancies end in abortion. ... This may be the number one leading cause of teen pregnancies. ... Pregnancy can not be ignored, neither can abortion. ...

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This form of abortion is used for women who are three to six weeks along in their pregnancies. ... Pregnancy can be dected as early as eight days after conception. ... This combination of drugs terminates the pregnancy if given to women who are less than seven weeks along. ... Abortion is a way out of pregnancy for many women who do not want children. ...

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Abortion has been the only choice for un-wanted pregnancies. ... As there are many physiological problems to be dealt with either after abortion or during pregnancy. ... Women have so many different problems to deal with during pregnancy, without having to think about suicide. ... Also 24% of women will experience problems with future pregnancies. These figures are horrifying, but there has been one shocking discovery. 100% of women who are under 20 years of age, who have had an abortion, will experience problems with later pregnancies rather than anyone over this age. ...

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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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The 14th Amendment's concept of "personal liberty" and restrictions on state action is enough to allow a women's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. ... A man can withdraw from a relationship as soon as he finds out about a pregnancy. ... Pregnancy and child birth may determine whether a women ever gets to start or complete her education, which will significantly influence her ability to support herself and her family. ... If a women cannot choose to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, she is denied the right to the "possession and control" of her own body. ... A pre-bor...

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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 purpose of the abortion is to ultimately terminate a pregnancy. ... When you remove a joined egg and sperm, by any means unnatural, no matter how far it is developed, you are terminating not only a pregnancy, but a life. ... One last note that truly bothers me is that it is legal to have an abortion, and you can say that it is sometimes promoted in young pregnancies, yet the fifteen year old girl who has her baby in a McDonalds and ends its life is charged with murder, are these not the same thing. ...

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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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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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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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Even in the latter months of pregnancy, the life of the mother may be threatened, creating what it may not be considered ethical by all, is a rationale that may be considered ethical by all is a rationale that may be considered by clear portion of the population to be both reasonable and ethical. ... I think that most of us would agree that the immediate termination of a pregnancy after a rape is not only ethical, but that lack of suck action would be unethical. I think that few people if any would argue that a late pregnancy termination is justifiable for ! ... Well last but not least, I b...

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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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