How could a mother even consider killing her child? ... I also think it is wrong to deny the child a chance to live because of its mother's and father's mistakes. An abortion is a procedure that women go through to terminate the life of their child. ... No right is more basic than the right to live, and the untimely death of a young child is among life's most awful tragedies. ... Rape is among the most profound denials of liberty, and making a woman bear a rapist's child is an assault on her humanity. ...

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Quickening generally occurred during the mid-point of gestation, late in the fourth or early in the fifth month, though it would and still does vary a good deal from one woman to another (pg.3). ... Every person who shall, willfully and maliciously, administer to, or cause to be administered to, or taken by, any person or persons, any deadly poisons, or other noxious and destructive substance, within an intention him/her/them, thereby to murder, or thereby to cause or procure the miscarriage of any woman, then being quick with child, and shall be thereof duly convicted, shall suffer imprisonme...

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Quickening generally occurred during the mid-point of gestation, late in the fourth or early in the fifth month, though it would and still does vary a good deal from one woman to another (pg.3). ... Every person who shall, willfully and maliciously, administer to, or cause to be administered to, or taken by, any person or persons, any deadly poisons, or other noxious and destructive substance, within an intention him/her/them, thereby to murder, or thereby to cause or procure the miscarriage of any woman, then being quick with child, and shall be thereof duly convicted, shall suffer imprisonme...

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After this, or the beginning of the fifth month abortion is serious and actually induced as childbirth. ... She felt that it's an innocent child inside of her. ... That child has a right to life that is equal to the mothers right. ... Before a child is born it is given all it's necessities to survive. ... This is a child that thinks, dreams, and feels pain. ...

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