Abortion
During the past quarter century, abortion has joined race and war as one of
the most debatable subject of controversy in the United States. It discusses
human interaction where ethics, emotions and law come together. Abortion poses a
moral, social and medical dilemma that faces many individuals to create a
emotional and violent atmosphere. There are many points of view toward abortion
but the only two fine distinctions are "pro-choice" and "pro-life". A pro-
choicer would feel that the decision to abort a pregnancy is that of the mothers
and the state has no right to interfere. A pro-lifer would hold that from the
moment of conception, the embryo or fetus is alive. This life imposes on us a
moral obligation to preserve it and that abortion is tantamount to murder
(Kolner 5).
In the United States about 1.6 million pregnancies end in abortion. Women
with incomes under eleven thousand are over three times more likely to abort
than those with incomes above......
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