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Abortion There are few more devisive issues in this country today than abortion. Combine a society that is partially governed by religion with a scientifically uneducated community and the ferver of catchy slogans on both sides and this devisiveness is almost expectable. Given the current advances in science, this is only likely to get worse. All of the rhetoric around abortion has confused the real issue. In essence, abortion is a medical procedure with ethical …

…issue seems to revolve around the rights of the murdered. When do people, therefore, attain a state where they are sufficiently people in order to be protected by the doctrine that killing them infringes rights that they have? Cows certainly do not achieve this. Unfertilized eggs do not achieve this either. Premature babies, however, do achieve it, according to today's standard? So where is the middle line? Or, in fact, is that really the issue?