Abortion Controversies

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The writer outlines abortion history and laws then focuses in the issue of partial birth abortion and its controversy. It provides an explanation of the legal development of laws relating to abortion and its eventual legalization. The paper provides statistics about the number of abortions performed in recent years, ages of the women, reasons etc. It then explains the concept of partial birth, when a fetus is aborted after 21 weeks, and the way that this is carried out is through semi-labor. The paper explains why this is obviously a very controversial issue.

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"Three decades ago abortions were legalized, and efforts to have that decision reversed have not stopped since. Abortions used to be handled in back alleys, and dark rooms, with unsterile equipment many times. They were illegal and not something that one could talk about because they were not legally allowed to get them in the first place. The abortion legalization cleared the path for regulation by way of sterilization, and counseling for the patient before and after receiving an abortion procedure(Smith, 1979). While there have been many attempts to reverse the decision, they have been largely futile, because the public believed the service provided pregnant women was made safer by the legalization process. This was the case until a few years ago when the topic of partial birth abortions moved to the forefront. Partial birth abortions have created controversy that rivals the original controversy about abortion legalization."

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