abortion. (www.gale.com) This number has been gradually declining since 1979. This is

similar to the Canadian figure of 21% but is much lower than that of the former Soviet

Union (60%) and Romania (78%) where contraceptives are in short supply. (Newsweek

Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about adultery in The Scarlet Letter, but the "A" word

these days is abortion. People often break off friendships, ostracize each other, and are

intolerant of others having different opinions on this subject. This is sad, because we can

The rest of this abortion essay is divided into two parts. First is a general

discussion mentioning some legal issues. Then the legal issues will be discussed in more

detail. Be aware that some of the following material is personal opinion, although you will

also find a lot of information (including links).(www.gale.com)

For thousands of years of western civilization, abortion was generally illegal after

"quickening" (the point at about four months into pregnancy when a baby kicks). This

tradition can be traced back at least to the Ancient Greeks. In his book "Politics," Aristotle

weight restoration: response to D-fenfluramine challenge. Psychological Medicine (March

extremists win.(Newsweek Sept. 22, 1997, Pg.18)

forced out of pregnancy, beaten, pushed around, and generally subjugated in a vast

essence of due process; due process simply refers to the process which is due to each of us

(www.gale.com) There often seems to be no middle ground. But, in fact, both of these

Here are over a million abortions are reported each year in the United States, and

that the America of 1868 clearly would never have intended that the Fourteenth

Lincoln said in his . People can disagree about what the lawmakers intended, and they can

process, whereas the Fourteenth Amendment says that the state governments may not do

law, thru the abortion laws of the nineteenth century, and thru most of the twentieth

the harm is done. Forced pregnancy is not something to which any civilized society should

patient; she/he is already dead.(www.gale.com)

As a matter of plain English, it is evident that due "process" is supposed to be a

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