The Abortion Debate

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This paper presents a brief summary of arguments on both sides of the abortion debate and expresses the hope that, ultimately, both sides will be able to objectively evaluate the issue and, following the democratic philosophy of this country, determine an answer that is best for the common good.

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"Those who offer rebuttal to this life-at-conception philosophy, state that there is "life" from the moment of conception in the sense that it is a biological entity that alters food and oxygen into energy and its cells divide and grow. However, the truer question is whether it is a "person"? There the disagreement comes. Webster's Dictionary defines a person as "an individual or existing as an indivisible whole; existing as a distinct entity." From the moment of conception, the living entity does not have a human consciousness nor is it physically independent. Thus, abortion is not murder, because it is not an independent person."

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