Abortion Should Be Legalized
The dictionary defines an abortion as a “medical termination of a pregnancy before the fetus has developed enough to survive outside the uterus” (“Abortion”). In simple words, an abortion is a very common way for a woman to get rid of an unwanted child before he or she is born. An abortion could be either a medical abortion, which is done trough the use of medications to end an early pregnancy, or a surgical abortion, which ends a pregnancy by removing the contents of the uterus. No matter how the abortion is performed, it has the same result: the unborn baby is killed. Abortions, in some form, have been performed for millennia. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romanians used special herbs and manipulations to terminate a pregnancy. In the middle ages in Western Europe, abortion was generally accepted in the early months of pregnancy. However, in the 19th century, public opinion changed, and abortion under any circumstances was prohibited by the Roman......
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