The Right to Choose Abortion

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After examining the background and history of abortion in America, this paper takes a look at the arguments that opponents of abortion make in justifying their position. The paper then presents counter arguments to those arguments, based on scientific, legal, and moral analyses of the issue.

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"Abortion, or the elective termination of pregnancy likely predates recorded human history, being practiced within virtually every society throughout the world.(6) In 1973, the United States Supreme Court very specifically decided that the United States Constitution affords a fundamental right to individual privacy that absolutely prohibits governmental interference with a women's autonomous right to seek
medical termination of unwanted pregnancy, except where deemed necessary to safeguard the woman's health paternalistically.(4) Ever since the legal issue was decided by the Supreme Court in 1973, a so-called pro life lobby, spearheaded by religious opposition to any type of abortion has campaigned for and funded the proposition of legislation and policies designed to undermine the rights recognized and established under constitutional law in the United States."

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