Wade, ruled that, during the first trimester of pregnancy, the state had no right to prohibit abortion and that, during the second trimester, the state could prohibit abortion unless the pregnancy endangered the mother's health or life" (Rein 112). ... Whether legal or not, each year millions of women of all backgrounds seek abortions when they cannot carry a pregnancy to term. ... There are many people waiting to adopt a baby, and adoption serves as an option to an unwanted pregnancy. ... Pregnancies that are a result of rape or incest can pose serious problems for a woman. Also a y...

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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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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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Yet, Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups feel that it is within a woman's rights to choose if she wants to have an unsuspected pregnancy or the choice to abort the fetus. ... This procedure typically would be performed in a later term pregnancy. ... One half of all pregnancies in the US are unintended. 4 out of those 10 pregnancies are terminated by an abortion. 88% of abortions occur during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. 50% of US women who obtain an abortion are younger than 25 years of age. ...

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In summary, the ideas of this group are that abortion is permissible in the early months of pregnancy when the fetus hardly resembles a baby at all. ... In the final months of pregnancy, abortion seems to be wrong and immoral. ... I do not believe the fetus is a human until the middle months of pregnancy where the fetus begins to resemble a person. ... Also, rape and incest pregnancies serve as another argument. ... Meaning that every woman should be given the right to decide whether or not she would like to continue through the pregnancy or abort the fetus. ...

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In many countries, like Afghanistan, women still go to prison for having an illegal abortion and is not allowed even in cases of rape or when the pregnancy endangers the life of the woman. ... Since pregnancy places a toll on a woman and even puts her at risk of death, forcing her to carry a child that she does not wish to have goes against her legal rights in some countries, but not Afghanistan. ... Abortion was prohibited in 30 states and legal under certain circumstances (such as pregnancies resulting from rape, incest, and date drug.) ... Some states did include provisions allowing for abo...

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Abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. ... Pro-choice supporters shed light on situations that many people may not find relevant when a woman makes a conscious decision to terminate her pregnancy. ... Roe v Wade made it illegal for women to have abortions after a certain point in the pregnancy, if the government says abortion cannot be performed up into a certain point does that make it right or wrong? ... For pro-life supporters there is never a reason to terminate a 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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Anti-abortion advocacy groups argue that women seeking abortions do not report problems because they do not want to disclose an unwanted pregnancy. ... Other states have attempted to implement anti-abortion legislation by using different tactics, such as mandatory sonograms and anti-abortion counseling, sweeping limits on insurance coverage, and bans on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. ... In South Dakota, legislation required women seeking abortions to wait out a 3-day period and participate in counseling at pregnancy help centers that discourages abortion. ...

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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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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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Abortion is murder and should be illegal except in instances when the mother's life is endangered by the pregnancy. ... Abortion is a horrible atrocity that should be illegal unless the mother's life is endangered by the pregnancy. ...

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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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"While this is a sensitive and often divisive issue, no matter what our views, we must stay united in our determination to prevent unintended pregnancies, support pregnant women and mothers, reduce the need for abortion, encourage healthy relationships, and promote adoption," the statement read (Ure). ... The World Health Organization also found that rather than preventing abortions, like many politicians hope to do, it is more beneficial to prevent unintended pregnancies. ...

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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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Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy and the premature expulsion of an embryo. ... The problem is that women feel inconvenienced by pregnancy, so they go the selfish route and get an abortion. ...

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Most of the debate around the world about abortion has centered on the question of morality. Is it ever moral or responsible for a woman to request and receive an abortion, or is abortion always immoral, sinful, and criminal? This is a very serious issue. Both men and women today react very strongly...

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The decision based on this case has caused a serious and long-lasting debate between "right to life" advocates who typically limit abortion to those rare cases where it is medically necessary to save the life of the mother, and the advocates of a "right to choose" who favor leaving all questions of pregnancy and its termination to the decision of the pregnant woman. ... Most women who want abortions want them because of accidental pregnancies. ...

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Getting Away With Murder In 1973, in the landmark case of Roe vs. Wade, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provided a fundamental right for women to obtain abortions (Abortion Law Homepage). When the courts made the decision to all...

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