Abortion is a needed medical procedure that has many misconceptions but has been proven to be helpful for many women. ... She and Clyde, the man that Gerri fell in love with, performed the abortion with a medical textbook and surgical tools. ... This can be prevented if safer procedures for abortions were made available. The death rate for these properly performed abortions is 0.6 per 100,000 procedures (OBOS). An additional misconception about abortion is that babies can feel pain during the procedure. ...

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This procedure is growing more and more popular everyday. ... a question that concerns many minds of people out there that are not aware of this tragic procedure. ... 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). ... The life of the mother is affected physically and psychologically during and after the procedure. ... Some of the leading causes of death due to abortion are not just during the procedure but also afterwards. ...

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The Romans also relied on herbs such as pennyroyal and hellebore, but had also created some of the first gynecological tools for abortive procedures. These surgical instruments were designed to dilate and extract a fetus by using a needle or spike and a covered blunt hook. ... Over the past century, procedures for abortions have come a long way from taking toxic herbs and doing jumping jacks. ... This procedure typically would be performed in a later term pregnancy. ...

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Abortion should be accessible to the people that need the procedure and the people who need it should not be criticized for their choice. ... These are all legitimate reasons to have to procedure done. ... "The reason for the enactment of the laws was not protection of morals or the soul of the fetus, but rather a reflection of the fact that at the time all surgical procedures were highly risky because of the probability of infection". ...

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Studies show that 42% of women that undergo abortion procedures are "below poverty level" ("Induced Abortion"). Thanks to advances in technology, surgical abortions have become much safer in a legal setting. ... This study also stated that colonoscopy procedures have a mortality rate 40 times greater than an abortion procedure. ... Lastly, after in vitro fertilization, the fertilized eggs not used in procedures are routinely thrown out. ... Abortion is ethical and a safe, legal procedure that millions of women undergo each year. ...

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Induced Abortion are procedures carried out to bring on abortion. Such include vacuum suction, which the most common type- this is used in the early stages of pregnancy, dilatation and evacuation (D and E), induction, which the injection of abortifacients such as prostaglandin into the uterus), and hysterotomy, which is a surgical procedure similar to cesarean section used later in pregnancy, especially when the woman's life is in danger. ...

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Abortion: Pro-Choice or Pro-Life The purpose of this paper is to explain the pro-choice and pro-life controversy of receiving an abortion. I. Introduction A. Definition of abortion. II. Thesis statement A. Pro-choice B. Pro-Life III. The views A. The moral viewpoint B. The murder viewpoint C...

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