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something with a beating heart a living creature? A baby’s heart forms and starts beating in the fifth week of pregnancy, therefore, that would make abortion murder. The baby that is growing inside of you is depending on you, so when you make the…

times, abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was permissible, but as out civilization has aged, it seems that such acts were no longer acceptable by rational human beings, so that in 1948, Canada along with most other nations in…

An unsolvable dilemma? How often: In the United States, women choose to end about 25% of their pregnancies through abortion. 1 This number has been gradually declining since 1979. This is similar to the Canadian figure of 21%, 2 but is much lower…

options available to woman who have become pregnant, but to not wish to keep it. So the activists say. Today abortion is a very serious social and moral issue, but it doesn't just relate to woman who don't wish to proceed with pregnancy, it relates…

the womb of his or her mother using surgical, mechanical, or chemical means (Podell 11). The most common way of performing an abortion is called vacuum aspiration. This procedure is usually done during the first trimester of one’s pregnancy. Surgical…

is purely a moral issue, but it is also a constitutional issue. It is a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body, and it should not be altered or influenced by anyone else. This right is guaranteed by the ninth amendment, which…

increase in the population of orphanages and foster care facilities. Also, women who want an abortion badly enough will go to any extreme to rid themselves of their unwanted child. There would be more cases of mothers inflicting bodily harm on themselve…

a very tough decision to make with serious consequences. The process requires the pregnant, soon to be mother, to go through a procedure where the fetus in the uterus is killed and extracted from their body. The decision to have this done could be…

be made illegal. Abortion is murder, it is the killing of an unborn baby. In today's society, regular people are not allowed to go out and just murder someone for no reason, so why should doctors be allowed to murder unborn babies? "Abortion is not…

shown that the initial impact an abortion has on a woman is one of relief. Pro-choice studies, though, often fail to follow up on their research beyond the first few months following the abortion. It is usually later on in the woman's life that…