During the past quarter century, abortion has joined race and war as

one of the most debatable 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 "pr

-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 5).

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

year old Michelle Urbain of south Florida has had five abortions so far.

The most popular procedure involved in abortions is the vacuum

go to bed with who she wants, but she can not choose death for her child.

required to create a human life. Scientists identify that at the moment of

right and made it legal in all states. The law now permits abortion at the

women would be denied their constitutional right of privacy and liberty.

rate of abortion among girls younger than

U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade argued that the women's "right to

The National Abortion Right Act League argues that without legal abortion

equal to the mothers right. One cannot kill another human being just

decision proved this by recognizing abortion as a fundamental constitution

Since the fetus has bones, bulk and can move, second trimester is not as

nothing less but ruthless murder. In southern Kentucky, Robert Hollis

and injustice. Women must have the right to control the functions of their

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