ABORTION A COMPLEX ISSUE
Abortion is a complex question of rights, of the mother and the baby, as well as the many legal and moral issues that appear to be unresolvable. For many centuries the abortion issue has troubled people because it is a complex issue of "life" and who determines when life begins or ends. Strong opinions exist and are expressed by the "radical" pro-life people and the "radical" pro-life people who represent the two extreme views of abortion. The majority of Americans fall in between the two extremes. The only way to protect everyone’s rights is to find a balance between the two "radical" extremes. There are several major points concerning abortion and this paper will attempt to outline the most important ones and draw a conclusion from these arguments on the morality of abortion. Personhood is when the newborn baby is considered alive. Many people believe that once you have decided Medical science has tried to delineate when life begins, however it has raised more questions than it has answered. Extreme pro-choice people believe that the baby is not a life until it is born while more moderate pro-choice proponets argue that the fetus is alive at the 20 to 24 week point, or point of "viability". Within the pro-choice group
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