In modern society, abortion has become the number one birth control pill. Women who become pregnant often consider abortion as their first option. If they are not ready to take the responsibility of raising a child, they choose to have an abortion. By definition, abortion is the termination of a pregnancy before the fetus is visible or capable of living outside the womb. It is also defined as the termination of a pregnancy before twenty-eight weeks.

There are two main social groups who argue over abortion. There are the pro-choicers, and the pro-lifers, who believe in abortion, and do not believe in abortion respectively. These two groups are split into smaller

The biggest argument of abortion is, "When does life begin?" Those who assert a "right to life" are for (at most) not just any kind of life, but for--particularly and uniquely-human life. So they too, like pro-choicers, must decide what distinguishes a human being from other animals and when, during gestation, the uniquely human qualities--whatever they are-emerge. Pro-life advocates believe that a human is made as soon as the sperm joins with the egg. They basically say that a zygote is biologically alive, that it fulfills the four criteria needed to establish biological life: metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction. The pro-life advocates usually have the upper hand in this argument, since a life is definitely made at birth, and also the fact that it is not only human, but I believe it is a unique human individual, since the sperm and egg that joined together are from two totally unique people. Pro-choice advocates argue that since the unborn entity is not a person, it is not fully human and therefore has no right to life. People who argue in this way defend either a decisive movement or a gradualist approach. Those who defend a decisive movement view say that at a later stage of a child's life, after conception, that it becomes worthy of our protection, which then makes it a person. Those who take a gradualist position argue that the unborn human zygote gains more rights as it develops.

One of the biggest issues in abortion today is whether or not a woman has the right to have an abortion if she is the victim of rape or incest. This issue divides a lot of the pro-life advocates up, since there are quiet a number of moral and ethical questions on trial as well as abortion. John Ashcroft, attorney general states, "If I had the opportunity to pass but a single law," he told a conservative newsletter in 1998, "I would fully recognize the constitutional right to life of every unborn child and ban every abortion except for those medically necessary to save the life of the mother."(Ashcroft) To state the obvious, pro-choice advocates support abortion of a baby due to incest or rape is definitely ok. They argue that women shouldn

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