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    Legalize Abortion “According to WHO and Guttmacher, approximately 68,000 women die annually as a result of complications of unsafe abortion” but these numbers would go down if abortion was legal. (Theodore) Abortion is “the termination of a pregnancy” (Merriam-Webster) and there are two sides to the abortion conflict. Pro-choice, where people believe it should be legal and readily available for those who wish to obtain one, and then there is pro-life, where people believe it should be illegal,

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    Does Legalization of Abortion Work? The word abortion by definition means the induced expulsion of a fetus from the womb before it is able to survive independently. Some country, abortion became legal because an authority thought that the legalized abortion would be work and solve a problem in society. In the United States, the legalized abortion was used since 1973. After legalized abortion used, there is an extremely controversial issue because while some people are completely against it, others

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    Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 case legalizing abortion, made fetal viability an important legal concept. The Supreme Court ruled that states cannot put the interests of a fetus ahead of the interests of the pregnant woman until the fetus is "viable." The court defined viable to mean capable of prolonged life outside the mother's womb. It said this included fetus that doctors expected to be sustained by respirators. The court accepted the conventional medical wisdom that a fetus becomes viable at the start

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    Abortion has been a controversy topic. Some people support legal abortion but some people against. For morality most people believe abortion means killing or murdering the baby, and it is against God's ethical code. However, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Republica Dominicana, in these country abortion is illegal no matter the woman have been rape or life in danger. Although people maintain that abortion is killing, according to a research display after legalised abortion the mortality

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    Health Organization, abortion was declared Latin America's leading cause of pregnancy-related mortality. Nearly two decades later a solution has not been found to the increasing deaths of Latin American women. In Latin America, there are restrictive laws on reproductive rights because abortion and contraceptives are considered immoral by the Catholic Church. Catholicism has dominated the region politically and socially since colonial times. Despite illegality, the abortion rate in Latin America

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    ability to get an abortion because the law prohibits it. Imagine being scared, confused, and anxious because you don’t have the basic right of control over your own body. Imagine having to succumb to illegal, life-threatening procedures because you feel like you have no other choice. There are women across the nation who feel and endure these unimaginable and terrifying hardships, which is why abortions should be legal throughout the United States. First, illegalizing abortions will not eliminate

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    Legalizing Abortion As the rate of abortion has rapidly increased for past several years, it has been an issue that everyone has thought about it at least once. Abortion is the deliberate killing of the weakest and most defenseless among us. There can be plausible reasons that they support abortion. However, I oppose to legalize abortion because not only that parents should accept the responsibility that comes with producing a child, but also it is highly risky for women both physically and mentally

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    “thou shall not kill,” then it is morally wrong to abort a child for the following reasons. First, legalizing abortion is going against the scriptures, especially in Genesis, when the God instructed Adam and Eve to be fruitful and replenish the earth. So, decreasing the population of human beings on earth is not a good way to abide by the biblical word of God. Another reason why legalizing abortion can cause more harm than good, is that the population starts to decrease, especially different minority

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    Wade struck down state laws banning abortion in 1973. Over 20 cases have addressed abortion law in the United States, all of which upheld Roe v. Wade”, various states have placed varying regulations regarding abortion. It is undeniable that abortion is one of the most controversial topics with the church calling on politicians to set laws that ban the performing of abortions. There has always been an undeniable controversial topic when it came to the abortion issue, there are two sides to such a

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    In my opinion, I believe that Levitt and Dubner both made a very strong argument when they spoke about the possible cause(s) of decline of criminal and abortion rates within Chapter 4. The reason that Levitt and Dubner made such a strong argument within this chapter is due to the fact that they were very informative with their examples and statistics, and even included a short backstory at the beginning to make the readers aware of the situation at hand. At the beginning of the book, the introduction

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