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    Demographic of Abortion Introduction In the 40 years since passing of the legislation by Roe v. Wade that gave women a choice to have abortion, a lot has changed. There has been a great deliberation on the topic of abortion. This includes issues surrounding problems of having abortions to the likely advantages of abortion. Legally induced abortion is defined as an operation or procedure which is performed by a licensed professional or physician with an intention of terminating a known or suspected

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    Organ donation is a controversial issue in most countries which simply involves the donation of a biological organ or tissue from a living or dead human body to a living recipient who needs a transplant or for scientific research. There have been several debates on the issue that everyone should be willing to donate their organ as it is of no use when they die. Some members of the public consider organ donation as an ultimate gift of life. Some people on the other hand, consider it improper due to

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    means of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, or abuse of power of a position of vulnerability for the purpose of exploitation (Human Trafficking Information). Today human trafficking, also known as modern-day slavery, has been one of the controversial issues in the United States and nationwide. In fact, it is now considered as the fastest growing multi-billion-dollar business form of organized crime. Also, Human trafficking is affecting the lives of millions around the globe and robbing the victims

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    Unfortunately, it is not possible to bring dinosaurs back to life, but there are scientists that are reviving other extinct animals. The technology that makes this possible is cloning. In fact, cloning of extinct animals is one of the most controversial issues in science today. On July 5, 1996, the first animal was cloned. After 277 attempts, the Roslin Institute in Roslin, Scotland successfully cloned Dolly the sheep (Nardo). Dolly the sheep was born by a somatic cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT

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    benefit our selves, but may be made based off of what is the most ethical, as with the issue of euthanasia, and based off of what produces the greatest amount of

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    lot controversies or problem in our society. Nowadays, they can easily do something that can affect someone physically and emotionally, we don’t understand why they are doing these kinds of things and one of the issues I knew is abortion. Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in our generation. People might just think that what is wrong in doing the abortion thing, it’s just a baby with no feelings after all. What is abortion? It is when you choose to end your pregnancy so that it doesn’t

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    Brown, Rogan Kersh, David S. Ludwig, Robert C. Post, Rebecca M. Puhl, Marlene B. Schwartz and Walter C. Willett, research on government effort to resolve the issue of obesity has shown “profound effects”. For instance, a nationally representative poll, that has 1,326 United States citizens and residents, were carried out where participants were asked to identify the “high prevalence of obesity” (Bronell. Kersh

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    The controversial issue of gay marriage has recently been very much part of the centre of media speculation, due to the fact that Australian Labour Party Leader, Bill Shorten, has lately been aver strong supporter of the American legislation which legalised gay marriage throughout the United States. I strongly support Bill Shorten’s sentiments. (State points) Who are we to deny members of our community the right to marry because they are of thesame sex and their beliefs differ from ours? In the

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    Climate change has been a widely debated, controversial topic. Some think that it is not an issue that should be payed much attention to. With climate changing being caused naturally and by humans, the climate has been widely changing due to ample amounts of CO2 emissions. Where the burning of fossil fuels is the main source of the human impact. As well as volcanoes being a majority the of natural emissions. Although nature contributes to the climate change humans have more widely contributed to

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    flourished and social norms began to change, however this time was actually accentuated by a certain violence and chaos due to conflicting American ideals on issues such as Prohibition, race, and immigration. Prohibition is defined as the act of forbidding something by law. The prohibition of alcohol was one of the most controversial issues of the twenties. Americans were concerned with the amount of liquor our nation was consuming. Action began to be taken to cut down on

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