In researching abortion, One is compelled to feel sympathy for individuals who have had to make such a moral decision. This author does not believe in abortions, however it is the woman's choice and should be legal so that there are safe abortions performed. In this paper will show some of the statistics involved with abortion and the some of the political issues at hand. It will proceed to also show some of the different arguments that seem to plague both the pro-life partisans and the pro-choice partisans.

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-In 47 countries with 11 percent of the world's population (600 million people), abortion is legal on medical grounds, including health risk to the woman or cases of fetal deformity.

One of the main questions that continues to fuel the issues between both pro-life and pro-choice advocates is the question, "is an embryo a person?" Maybe the real question should be, "what is the embryo?" According to Dr. Jack of the National Right to Life Committee, the embryo is a human being from the moment of conception. His definition of a human being depends on the forty-six chromosomes first present in the egg. This advocates their effort to back up religious arguments based on church tradition. Clearly, a fertilized egg has the potential to become a person. Of course, the embryo is always human. That is, it is of human origin, but so is every egg and sperm cell. The problem seems to exist in the definition of the word "human." It can be either an adjective or a noun. As an adjective it carries no particular moral weight. We have human hair, human fingernails, and the human cells in our saliva all have forty-six chromosomes, however, they have no spec!

Public opinion about the abortion debate generates many disputes, however, most polls indicate that a large majority of Americans support access to legal abortion. Notwithstanding their feelings about morality of abortion; an even larger number of people feel the decision should be left up to the mother and her physician, and therefore, in this context, support legal abortion.

the embryo, then, its use may relate to the development of the brain. The early embryo, before development of the mature human brain, has only one quality to distinguish it from all other living things; it has the potential to become a human being. It is a strange kind of potential because it has no path or blueprint to follow. We all know this potential because of our awareness, thoughts, and feelings. Still we struggle with the philosophical and moral implications by

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