By definition, "abortion" is "the spontaneous or induced termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryos or fetus." Abortion has been a controversial issue since the Greek and Roman days. There was the greatest and wisest Greek, known as the Father of Medicine who, stood up and proclaimed his famous Oath: "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion," or "I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly, I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy." The Pythagoreans also had the same agreement with the Oath that abortion is not right: "Â…the embryo was animate from the moment of conception, and abortion meant destruction of a living being."
There have been many debates over the right to life of the fetus or the right to choose by a......
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