Throughout our life everyone will eventually have to make a huge decisions. For some, it could be to go away to college, for others, whether or not to take a new job out of state. What .
decision most people don't have to make is probably one of the toughest decisions possible, .
whether or not to destroy a human life. In1973, 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 Overview"). .
Since 1973, there have been over 45 million abortions in the United States alone ("Abortion in the United States") making abortion one of the most frequently performed operations in America .
(Roleff 16). Becky Smith, a school teacher in Virginia said, "The weekend before I started .
teaching me and my boyfriend broke up and he moved to the other side of the state. And just .
when I thought it couldn't get any worse, I found out I was pregnant on my first day of school. .
The choice to make was clear. I have never once regretted my decision. For one of the first times .
in my life, I felt that I had taken control of my life and my circumstances, and felt very strong .
doing so"("Abortion Experiences" 6). Abortion should be a voluntary option for any woman who .
isn't ready physically, mentally, or financially to have a child. .
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The term "abortion" actually refers to any premature expulsion of a human fetus, whether .
naturally spontaneous, as in a miscarriage, or artificially induced, as in a surgical or chemical abortion. Today, the most common usage of the term "abortion" applies to artificially induced abortions ("National Right to Life"). Commonly referred to as "murder" by the pro-life activists .
(Roleff 31-39), the choice of abortion should be left up to the mother carrying the child. Using .
the word murder is common by pro-life activists to make the word abortion synonymous with evil.