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    Legal Abortion There are more than 40 million abortions per year. Approximately 125,000 abortions happened today. There have been more than 1.3 billion abortions worldwide since 1980. The numbers grow every day. Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, and in the US, nine out of ten abortions are done in the first twelve weeks of the pregnancy, or first trimester. Very few abortions are done after the sixteenth week of the pregnancy. There are different types of abortions including: manual vacuum

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    freedom is talked about in “How It All Began: I Have Had an Abortion” and “What is Reproductive Justice?” by Loretta Ross. These articles discuss abortion as a choice and a part of reproductive justice. “How It All Began: I Have Had an Abortion” talks about abortion in a direct way by talking about anti-abortion law and Project 218 being one of many responses to the law. Loretta Ross states what reproductive justice is and how the right to abortion falls into the framework for fighting reproductive oppression

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    Throughout the United States, abortion is legal and illegal, because it is such a controversial topic. America would be better of if abortions were legal nationally and government funded. Rape victims shouldn’t be denied the right to abort a child that they conceived during rape. Rape is a traumatic experience and victims are often not wanting or ready for a child. If abortion was illegal, these victims would be forced to birth and possibly keep the baby. These women shouldn’t have to be reminded

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    in Australia will have an abortion procedure in their life . Abortion data is only gathered by South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. However, South Australia is the only state to publish data and report findings annually. Abortion is a heavy topic which has the nation spilt into two groups; pro-life or pro-choice. Pro-life is in favour of the foetus and they believe that by killing the foetus it is equivalent to murder. Pro-choice is for abortion, as they believe that the

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    Abortion is a medical process for terminating a pregnancy before the consequent birth of a baby. A pregnant woman can abort a child using either medications or minor surgeries. Most doctors prefer carrying out abortions before the pregnancy is 24 weeks old. It is possible but not advisable to carry out abortions after 24 weeks. Examples of circumstances that would warrant an abortion after pregnancy is more than 24 weeks old are if giving birth would pose a significant medical risk to the mother

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    controversial issues plaguing our country today is that of abortion. This debate arose in the mid-to-late 1800’s when states began passing laws to make abortion illegal (“History of Abortion”). Although each law varied from state-to-state, the reason for making it illegal seemed to be similar: All surgical procedures, including abortion, were risky and hospitals and well-practiced doctors were not common in most areas. Back-alley abortions (illegal abortions) were very common during this time. Even when the

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    The debate over whether or not to legalize abortion has been going on since the 19th century. With abortion illegal, it would affect the well-being and rights of many women. Abortion should be kept legal in the United States because it is a personal and private decision. According to our ninth and fourteenth amendments, we have a right to privacy. The ninth amendment states that “the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained

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    Abortion Should Be Legal

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    Should Abortion Be Legal In The U.S.... The topic of abortion is quite a controversial one, many people are both for and against the motion: “Should abortion be legal in the U.S.?”. The main arguments for this topic are “You are taking a child’s life when aborting.” but others may say “Women deserve the right to their own health decisions.” Many people are also in the grey spot with this topic, many believe under certain circumstances such as medical complications, that abortion should be legal

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    Women should have the right to make the decisions on what they’re going to with their bodies. Women shouldn’t be restricted by the government. It’s a personal choice. Abortion is such a cruel thing to do but you never know the situation a woman is in or what they are going through. As it can be seen, women has been fighting and struggles throughout years for their equal rights all over the world. As United States of America is known for being the “Land of the Free”, Women should be given the rights

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    Abortions have been performed on women for thousands of years. Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. Most often it is performed during the first 20 weeks of being pregnant. The controversy over whether or not abortion should be legal continues to divide Americans till this day. An important landmark case was the Roe v. Wade case, where the Court argued that the "zone of privacy" was "broad enough to encompass a woman 's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy."(McBride

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