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    child a living person and should have the right to surive. An abortion is the ending of pregnancy before birth which results in the death of an embryo or a fetus. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme court legalized abortion in America. The ruling was that under the Fourteenth Admendment the fetus is not considered a legal person. Therefore the fetus has no rights or protection. According to Guttmacher (2014) found that abortion rates and ratios are continuning

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    people think that if you have an abortion then you are committing murder, but many think that it is just a fetus and not a fully developed living being. In the beginning stages of pregnancy, I believe that in the uterus there is a fetus who is not an actually living thing. So it is okay for the female to decide if that she does not want the baby and it not count as murder because it is a fetus and it isn't fully developed yet. If a women decides that she does not want to have a baby for whatever reason

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    Margaret Sanger once said that “No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” Abortion is the way of ending pregnancy by removing the fetus or embryo before it can survive outside the matrix, which can also allow women to choose whether they want to become a mother or not. However, people have developed the controversy about abortions. Abortion debate is an ongoing debate which has involved moral, legal, biological and religious status

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    removing a fertilized egg from a mother, has become a controversial issue in American society, but should be generally supported because women should have the choice on how they choose their eggs to go on, whether it be to end further growth of the fetus or not. Women have a right to control what happens in and with their body. Being a pro-choice defender means taking sympathies to this woman while she then gets called a murderer by pro-life supporters. Abortions sometimes results in the woman being

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    the mother owns the house..............: it casts a bright light on the supposition that third parties can do nothing". Here Thomson implies that the house is the property owned by the mother; similarly the body that holds the fetus belongs to the woman carrying the fetus. Thus the woman should have the right and freedom to make any decisions regarding her own

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    Should Abortion Be Legal?

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    determining what is considered a human it is difficult because there are many factors to ponder. The right to life concept is one I strongly agree with, however I do not believe that a newly conceived fetus is considered a human. “Thus it is clear that that even though a seven- or eight month fetus has features which make it apt to arouse… Nevertheless it seems safe to say that is not fully conscious, in the way that an infant of a few months is, and that it can not reason, or communicate… does not

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    ethics issue. There are two dominant stances on abortion, which include pro-life and pro-choice. Pro-choice supporters often believe that the decision of abortion should ultimately be a woman’s choice. They argue that personhood begins only when a fetus is able to live on its own, outside of the womb. The federal case, Roe versus Wade, states that abortion is a right of privacy, which is general enough to include a woman's decision to terminate her pregnancy. Pro-choice supporters tend to believe

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    The Abortion Debate

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    the Webster Dictionary abortion is defined as this: the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of an embryo or fetus. Another definition in the Webster Dictionary: spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the twelve weeks of gestation: induced expulsion of a human fetus (Webster). Each of those definitions is exceedingly hard to assimilate. It’s sad to say that American has changed from the principles our intelligent founding fathers supplied

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    But when we closely examine the idea of personhood we find that Webster defines it as “a state or fact of being an individual or having human characteristics and feelings.” So at what point does a “fetus” have the characteristics and feelings that mimic human life? I think one of the most essential elements of human life is the heartbeat. In standard gestation the cardiovascular system is formed and the heart starts beating at day 22. Not too long

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    to get out of unwanted or unplanned pregnancies. Abortion is also one of the most controversial issues and one of the most heated moral debate in the United States today. An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy and expulsion and death of the fetus generally before it is viable (capable of independent life). Human pregnancy typically lasts anywhere from 38-40 weeks, and abortions are almost always done within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy. If a mother can kill her own child, then how can

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