Whether or not abortion should be legal inevitably raises the question of whether and at what point a fetus is a person. This is a question that cannot be answered logically. The concept of personhood is not logical: it is essentially religiously based on one's fundamental assumptions about the nature of the world. The issue of abortions has been a hot debate since the 1973 Supreme Court Case of Roe v. Wade which legalized abortions. Recently, a major issue came about among all the debates dealing with partial- birth abortions. It is a controversial method of abortion late in a woman's pregnancy in which the baby is aborted by a craniotomy. Over the last decade, many bans have been placed on this procedure. The bans are not placed on all abortions because many people believe that abortions should remain legal. However, the procedure of partial birth abortions should be banned because having an abortion after twenty weeks of pregnancy is violently taking the life of an innocent......
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