Abortion

            
             Currently, an estimated 1,365,000 million women receive abortions in America annually. Approximately 40 million abortions have been performed since 1973 (1). According to a case, Rex v. Beare, Abortion has been part of human lives since the 1700s (8). Many sources also state that it has been practiced quite long time in history before the 1700s. Whether or not abortion should be a right of a mother or banned completely is an issue that could be debated, and has been debated, for years. The controversy of this issue partly depends on the fact that different people have different measures of defining "Human-life." Some people believe a soul is given to a human being, by God, while it is developing in the mother's womb, and some believe it is given to the child after its birth. Both cases seem to be based on opinions and what each side promptly believes in. .
             According to WorldNet, abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy (9). There are two main types of abortions; Medical abortion and surgical abortion. In a medical abortion, the mother's uterus is not treated; instead, the mother is given medication to end the pregnancy. There are two medications that can be legally induced in the United States, mifepristone and methotrexate. Either of the two medications is approved by the Food and Drug Administration only if it is used with misoprotol. The second type of abortion is the surgical abortion. There are two kinds of surgical methods that can be applied to end pregnancy. In one method, the cervix is opened and the contents of the uterus are extracted; the contents include the fetus and the placenta. The second method is mostly used if the pregnancy is past 22 weeks. In this case, the mother induces labor and expels the fetus from her body, as she would in childbirth (2). .
             About 43% of American women will have one, or occasionally more, abortion during their lifetime. Women's centers and hospitals perform more than a million abortions per year.