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    The Second Wave Feminism lasted from early 1960’s to late 1980’s. In addition, a lot of issues took place after the nineteenth Amendment. The women’s activism seemed to lose its devotion in between 1920 to 1960 because of the Word War- II. During this period, women were employed as workers for making war equipments and warplanes and also as nurses. They were influenced by a white woman named Rosie, for the idea she created about women taking up masculine jobs and performing strenuous labor. Soon

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    The Abortion Issue Introduction Abortion has been a very controversial subject over these past few decades. Every time you pick up a paper or magazine it seems there is always some protest regarding abortion, whether it be for fetal rights or women's rights. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica the definition of abortion is "the expulsion of a fetus from the uterus before it has reached the stage of viability (in human beings, usually about the 20th week of gestation). An abortion may occur

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    The Abortion Issue Introduction Abortion has been a very controversial subject over these past few decades. Every time you pick up a paper or magazine it seems there is always some protest regarding abortion, whether it be for fetal rights or women's rights. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica the definition of abortion is "the expulsion of a fetus from the uterus before it has reached the stage of viability (in human beings, usually about the 20th week of gestation). An abortion may occur

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    contraception will lower the number of unplanned pregnancies and abortions, and for challengers who believe that using Plan B amounts to an abortion. Pro-life activists and politicians have been pushing to redefine pregnancy as beginning at fertilization, but the medical community considers a pregnancy to be established only after implantation of a fertilized egg has happened. Pro-life campaigners are trying to persuade women that Plan B causes abortions by creating a hostile setting within the uterus and averts

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    Abortion has been and most likely always will be a controversial topic. It is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy. In the year of 1973, the members of the United States Supreme Court made the decision to legalize abortion, which led to many different outlooks and opinions regarding it. This resulted into people splitting into two groups. Pro-life, in which people claim that abortion, regardless of how old the fetus

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    important today are abortion, gun control, and climate change. Abortion is a current controversial topic in our country. Many people are opinionated about whether or not abortion should be allowed. Those who are against abortion argue that it is immoral. Personally, I believe that abortion should be legal as to benefit, for example, victims of rape or women who are at risk for complications during childbirth. Because this is such a controversial topic, in the future abortion may be illegal, which

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    Should Abortion Be Legal?

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    circumstances in which it is always permissible to have an abortion, and that a detelogical pro-life standing on abortion, which would consider it not permissible in any circumstances and so wish to avoid permitting abortion in any circumstance, is ultimately wrong. The following essay will be split into two parts, the first will discuss Second order reasons for abortion and the second will discuss First Order reasons. First order reasons are reasons for abortion, which are easily justifiable, such as rape and

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    Should Abortion Be an Option? Murder. What do people think of murder? Killing in self-defense. What do people think of killing out of self defense? Murdering someone else in “self-defense”, when it is really out of “inconvenience.” What do people think of murdering out of inconvenience, while claiming it is out of “self-defense?” Most would say that murder is wrong and killing out of self-defense is justified. Others would say that murdering out of inconvenience is wrong, while some still claim

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    Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary abortion is, “ the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus.” Abortion is not a new idea, that is only understood in America. It is a procedure that has taken place worldwide for centuries. There is much debate over this topic because everyone has their own opinion of the idea. Some believe it should be banned forever and in all circumstances and others believe that abortion should be allowed and

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    A debate that has been analyzed and discussed for many centuries, and still is today; is whether abortions, should be allowed to continue or prohibited. Although with that broad topic in mind, it brings up many other subtopics. One that is most considered is whether a fetus’ right to life is absolute. In today's society, people have different opinions on this topic, some believe that from the moment of conception, that a fetus is a human being, while others believe that regardless of how long the

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