Abortion As A Public Policy Issue

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Discusses the differing opinions concerning abortion. Suggess that both sides of the issue make a good case for thie side. Medical, moral & socio-economic issues. Why a woman chooses an abortion. Pro-choice & pro-life. Overview of history, legal actions & ramifications of abortion, including use of fetal tissue for treatment disease. Personal opinion.

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"THE ABORTION DILEMMA

I. WHY WOULD A WOMAN CHOOSE ABORTION?
Abortion is by all accounts the most difficult public-policy issue in contemporary America. (Callahan 1984 2) Perhaps not since the vituperative Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and '60s, when ideology turned ugly and caused deaths and injury, has any subject been as vehemently argued as the issue of Abortion. This issue is neither academic nor even, perhaps, objective. Yet, most people favor abortion in certain circumstances: The Yankelovich et al poll of women over 18, commissioned by LIFE Magazine, showed that 67% of the total sample believed that abortion should be legal (Callahan 1884 6). A woman faced with an unwanted pregnancy generally understands at some visceral level that there is human life ..."

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