The Abortion Debate

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The paper discusses the religious and social moral codes that have played a major role in both preventing and encouraging abortion. The writer further discusses how religious beliefs have generally been interpreted as against abortion, while the behavior and circumstances have often necessitated abortion of unwanted pregnancies.
The writer states that hundreds of thousands of women undergoing abortion die throughout the world each year at the hands of illiterate and untrained midwives. In conclusion the paper examines the arguments for and against abortion and proposes a careful approach where abortion is kept legal within a specified term of pregnancy and women are educated to seek help as early as possible in the course of pregnancy.

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"After viewing the arguments we must appreciate the human side of the abortion debate. An unplanned pregnancy is cause of great misery among the teenagers. The sexual freedom available today gives rise to cases where despite all precautions pregnancy may result. If the parents believe that bringing a child into the world will result in problems for the woman and for the baby then availability of abortion as a legally permitted possibility has to be welcomed."

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