Abortion should remain legal because it should be the right of the persons involved whether to have an abortion or not. ... The risk of complication is minimal- less than one percent of women experience a major complication. The risk of death associated with childbirth is 10 times greater than the rish of death from an abortion. ... (Mads Melbye et. al., Induced Abortion and the Risk of Breast Cancer, 336[2] New Eng. ... Although it does economically benefit individuals by being performed, abortion in itself does not pay the salaries of those medical providers involved. ...

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To pro-lifers, parents should be involved in abortion decision-making for teens because legally, they are responsible. ... However, in states with these laws, sexual intercourse rates don't decrease, but their health risks, however, increases. ... The pro-life advocates have shown studies that women who have had abortions have a 50 percent increased risk for breast cancer. This increased revealed by the studies means that women face a higher risk of dying from the effects of an abortion than of dying in childbirth. ... The risks associated with abortion are insignificant compared with...

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Studies show, researchers surveyed a national sample of 5,295 women, not all of who have had abortions, and many of whom had abortions between 1979 and 1987, the time they were involved in the study. ... General anesthesia, which is sometimes used in abortion procedures, carries its own risks. What is good in Lisa's case, if she considered getting the abortion it could be done early with probably no complications involved. ... For all women, the risk of breast cancer increases with age. According to the National Cancer Institute, this risk rises from about 1 in 2,525 for a woman in h...

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Although the onset of pregnancy may occur in any teenager, some teens are at higher risk for unplanned pregnancy than others. ... Teenagers who come from poor neighborhoods and attend segregated schools are at a high risk for pregnancy. ... Many of these health risks are due to inadequate prenatal care and support, rather than physical immaturity. ... Poor eating habits, smoking, alcohol and drugs increase the risk of having a baby with health problems (Johnson, 1995). ... Because of these extremely serious problems, many governments as well as local organizations are fighting to stop the ...

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Even though the issue of abortion was gaining support by the women's movement, public opinion forced women such as Karen into taking deadly risks to end their pregnancies secretly. ... This statement could have referred to the person who performed Karen's abortion, a medical procedure in which there is a certain amount of risk to the patient even within the care of a physician. ... This article supports the contention that abortions are safe within the supervision of trained medical personnel because during the past eight years, only four of Buskind's cases became problematic...

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Therefore, parents are already involved in providing emotional and psychological support and assisting her in the decision making process. ... There is obviously not a good relationship between the teenager and her parents because if there was the parents would talk to her about the risks of having sex and what can happen if she does have unprotected sex. ... She was risking the lives on many innocent people for a reason that could have been prevented. ... Many teenagers have immoral sexual relationships which put their lives in danger because of STDs and the risk of becoming pregnant a...

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It is important to understand that except for the technology involved many of the pros and cons about abortion are not new. ... In the United States there is a constant awareness which is at times very keen and at other time rather obscured about the belief that the mental and physical health of the mother and child are at particular risk when the mother is an adolescent. But even though individuals recognize this risk, there is still a strong element of conscience which suggests that abortion is fundamentally wrong and that even in extreme instances, an abortion has to be seen for what thos...

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Thomason points out that the entire argument is inconsistent because what if a mother was physically unable to bare a child, and she risked the chances of death. ... But that does not mean I would abort a fetus because I slept with my boyfriend knowing the risks involved. ...

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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. ... This can be applied to a completely different situation; for example, the law can interfere with what goes on in the privacy of someone's home if violence is involved. ... Non-pregnant females and males have a right and a responsibility to be involved in the issue. ...

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The Northern Territory sentences seven years to all parties involved. ... This information, along with other information about the medical risks of abortion, must be in a form approved by an advisory panel. ... The case involved prosecution of a medical practitioner, Dr Arthur Ross, Mrs. ...

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Our culture protests that men should not be involved in the abortion decision because it is the woman's body and the woman's life that will be affected by the pregnancy. ... Yet it also harms the man involved, whose natures tells him to live out his fatherly role to love and protect his child. ... Slightly over 80% said they had already begun to think about the child that might have been born (with 29% saying they had been fantasizing about the child "frequently"), 68% believed men involved in abortions "did not have an easy time of it," and 47% worried about having disturbing thoug...

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From a medical standard these women are at a very high risk that health problems for the mother and the baby could happen. ... What the pro-lifers don't see is the affect that will be upon on the women that is involved. ...

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Women faced with unwanted pregnancies have turned to abortion, regardless of religious or legal sanction and often at considerable risk. ... One might argue that in a case where rape is involved, that abortion should be the answer (the chance of getting pregnant after rape is 1 or 2 out of 1000), but these anti-abortion organizations ask questions such as; will she be able to live comfortably with the memory that she "killed her developing baby"? ...

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The girl became involved with a guy in her school who was seventeen, slightly older than her. ... The couple was involved for a brief time before he suggested the idea of becoming sexually active. ... Social services is effected because if the mother isn't doing a good job and the child's well being is at risk or if the child's basic needs aren't being taken care of, Social services will have to step in and take over. ...

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Babies born to teen mothers are at high risk of being born prematurely, low weight, hyperactive, mental illness or retardation, and respiratory problems. ... Research shows that involved and committed father's are extremely important to a child's well-being. ...

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Most poor women had illegal abortions that had grave risks to the mother's health (Segers and Byrnes, 2). ... Social workers also became involved, when they, too, saw the consequences not only physically, but emotionally, on the women (Segers and Byrnes, 3). ...

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It would be her responsibility to prove that the abortion was necessary to save her life, The process could take up to three weeks to be decided upon and all costs involved (for psychiatrist reports etc.) would have to be paid by the woman. ... Lying there naked in front of a stranger about to perform an illegal operation will leave her vulnerable, and at risk to rape or humiliation. ...

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There is a man's role involved and there is a new life, which under the banner of abortion would be extinguished. ... It doesn't attempt to debate on the ethics of the matter, or doesn't mention the risk factor associated with abortion. ...

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