Abortion

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= = Abortion, or the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to terminate a pregnancy, is such a bitter controversy mainly because there are two sides that share almost no common premises and very little common language. ﻿ ||= ||
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the mothers and the state should have no right to interfere. || A pro-life person would hold that from the moment of conception, that the <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; tabstops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">embryo or fetus is alive. This life imposes on us a moral obligation <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">to preserve it and that abortion is the same as murder. ||
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 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 190%;">Was abortion always a topic of controversy? || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">In the past, abortion has not been such an issue because of the fact it was so unreliable. The medications were difficult to prepare in accurate doses and were typically poisonous to the woman herself. However, after the turn of the twentieth century, more technological advancements began to arise and abortion became more reliable, and a greater argument. ||

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 280%;">T <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 280%;">A <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 280%;">T <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 280%;">I <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 280%;">S <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 280%;">T <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 280%;">I <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 280%;">C <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 280%;">s || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Women with incomes under eleven thousand are over three times more likely to have an abortion, than women with incomes above twenty-five thousand. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Unmarried women are four to five times more likely to abort than <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">married. In the past years the abortion rate has doubled among <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">18 and 19 year olds. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Recently the U.S. rate has dropped 6 percent <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">overall but the rate of abortion among girls younger than 15 has  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">jumped up to18 percent and the rate among minorities climbed from 186  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">per 1,000 to 189 per 1,000. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">About 40 percent of Americans believe that abortion should remain legal and 40 percent believe it should be banned except when the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother or the result of rape or incest. 15 percent believe it should be illegal in all cases. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Almost 90 percent of abortions are performed in the first trimester -- during the first 12 weeks after the first day of the woman's last menstrual period -- with most performed before nine weeks. Because of newer surgical and medical techniques, the proportion of abortions performed at six weeks or earlier has almost doubled in the past decade. <span style="background: white; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Less than 1 percent of abortions are done after 24 weeks. ||
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 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Pro-Choice: Fetus || <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Pro-Life: Baby ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">But for those who support abortion, their argument is that since the embryo has the capacity to become a child but is not a child yet, it belongs in a very different moral category. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The embryo is not considered a legal person <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Some people believe that although the first heartbeat has occurred, the first breath is taken at birth and that is more important.  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Those who oppose abortion usually argue that since the embryo is an unborn child, abortion is more equivalent to murder. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The embryo is a natural person  The embryo has certain "unalienable rights" ||
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Roe v Wade || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Planned Parenthood V. Casey  ||
 * * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Used the 14th amendment as a basis concerning the rights of privacy (made abortion legal stating that women’s right to privacy overrules the fetus’s right to life.)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Recognizes abortion as a fundamental constitutional right and made it legal in all states. The law now permits abortion at the request of the women without any restrictions in the first trimester and some restrictions in the second trimester to protect the women's health.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The National Abortion Right Act League argues that without legal abortion women would be denied their constitutional right of privacy and liberty

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> || * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The Court upheld the constitutional right to have an abortion but lowered the standard for analyzing restrictions of that right, invalidating one regulation but upholding the others
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">"[i]f the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child." (Planned Parenthood V. Casey)

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