subject of controversy in the United States. It discusses human interaction where ethics, emotions

and law come together. Abortion poses a moral, social and medical dilemma that faces many

individuals to create a emotional and violent atmosphere. There are many points of view toward

abortion but the only two fine distinctions are "pro-choice" and "pro-life". A pro-choicer would feel

that the decision to abort a pregnancy is that of the mothers and the state has no right to interfere. A

pro-lifer would hold that from the moment of conception, the embryo or fetus is alive. This life

imposes on us a moral obligation to preserve it and that abortion is tantamount to murder (Kolner

In the United States about 1.6 million pregnancies end in abortion. Women with incomes under

eleven thousand are over three times more likely to abort than those with incomes above twenty-five

thousand. Unmarried women are four to five times more likely to abort than married and the

abortion rate has doubled for 18 and 19 year olds. Recently the U.S. rate dropped 6 percent

overall but the rate of abortion among girls younger than 1

fertilized and known as the "zygote". The zygote contains a full set of 46 chromosomes which is

recently discovered Post Abortion Syndrome (PAS). According to a study published by

after becoming aware of the horrors he observed. "A woman has the right to go to bed with who

so far. She realizes now that they all left emotional scares her that are unbearable. "It wasn't just a

Abortion is necessary for women to have control over their own bodies and life. One activist said,

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