The coexistence of opposite and conflicting feelings about abortion is centuries old. Disagreements between public policy, morality and individual behavior on this issue existed even at the time of Plato and Aristotle. In the past few decades abortion issue has been brought into sharper focus and has been vigorously debated. A number of factors are responsible for this but perhaps the major one has been that associated with the sexual revolution which accentuates freedom in all matters sexual and in spite of or even because of the tremendous and indiscriminate increase in the distribution of contraceptives. It is a very significant issue in our society today because I believe that it is truly dividing the citizens of this country and I do not want to change anybody’s views, but I think that America is learning to be more open minded to the things that are inevitable and this procedure, in my opinion, is inevitable.
Since the late 1960's, abortion has been shifting......
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