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Legalizing abortion was supposed to help reduce child abuse, since it was assumed most abused children were unwanted at birth. This theory, though, has been disproved since scientific studies show that child abuse has actually risen since abortion has been legalized. In 1973, when it was legalized after the Roe versus Wade Supreme Court case, there were 167,000 cases of child abuse in the United States. Yet, in 1980 there were 785,100 cases of child abuse and neglect reported. Since 1980 it has steadily increased to over 2 million cases per year. In the following paragraphs I will explain to you why I think abortion is totally wrong. When does life begin? This is a question posed by some pro-life advocates. In 1981(April 23-24) a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee held hearings on this very question. Most of the scientific community believes that life begins at conception. Dr. Hymie Gordon, Chairman of the Department of Genetics at the Mayo Clinic, says: "By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception." Dr. Alfred Bongiovanni, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, conclu
The New York Post reported a story on December 6,1998. It told of a young woman laying on her deathbed in a Brooklyn abortion facility. Her fiance was in the waiting room receiving a page that Tommy Boy Records had just signed him to a contract. The young woman was pronounced dead after having a LEGAL ABORTION at the Long Island College Hospital. Paramedics arrived on the seen too late to perform CPR, after getting a call that a woman wasn't breathing. The couple had planned to be married in January or February. She was four months pregnant. · From 1973 to 1997 abortions have risen to almost 1,500,000 per year. It is estimated that 36,458,656 have been performed during this time span. On the other side of the spectrum, abortion could be a positive thing if the mother is infected with the HIV or AIDS virus and her baby would be born with the deadly disease. If the mother has been raped and becomes impregnated, she may want no reminder of the horrible thing that has happened to her; the child could cause emotional distress to both of them. Another reason pro-choice people support abortion is if a young girl at the age of twelve
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