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61% of people live in countries where abortion is permitted for a wide range of reasons or without restriction.
Reasons Offered for Abortion: health concerns, abandonment, change in finances or social situation, illness of family member, abnormal pregnancy, exposure to teratogen.
In 2000, most of the legal abortions were performed for women under the age of 15.

Abortion

An abortion is a medical or surgical procedure that ends a pregnancy. Throughout history, differences over moral and religious values have made abortion a highly controversial issue. The procedure has been legal in the United States since 1973, but it remains controversial with divergent views on such questions as when human life begins, the rights a woman has over her own body, and government interference in the private lives of individuals.

Abortion Overview

The two factions involved in this controversy are poles apart in their views on abortion: whereas the pro-choice movement contends that a woman's right to abortion is absolute, the pro-life movement asserts that a fetus's right to life is indisputable. Both sides rely on legal, scientific, and human rights arguments…>> (read more)

Abortion Points of View

4 Abortion Should Not Be Restricted
5 Abortion Rights Devalue the Fetus
6 Partial-Birth Abortion Is Legal Infanticide
7 Roe v. Wade Must Be Overturned
8 Roe v. Wade Must Be Upheld
9 Parental-Involvement Laws Protect Teens
10 Abortion Rights Threaten America
11 Threats to Abortion Rights Should Be Challenged
12 Arguments of Abortion Rights Opponents Are Seriously Flawed

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Abortion in the News

S.F. abortion protest draws thousands.

Byline: Joe Garofoli; Chronicle Staff Writer

Emboldened by recent shifts in the political landscape, several thousand anti-abortion activists rallied in San Francisco on Saturday in a march…>> (read more)

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D., R.I.) said that the Catholic bishops ought to speed the passage of health-care legislation by dropping their objection to abortion funding.(The Week)(Brief article)

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D., R.I.) said that the Catholic bishops ought to speed the passage of health-care legislation by dropping their objection to abortion funding. After his bishop, Thomas…>> (read more)

The Stupak victory.(ABORTION)(Bart Stupak)

OUR very Democratic House just held the most important and politically significant vote on abortion since 2003 (at least)--and pro-lifers won big. Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Michigan Democrat,…>> (read more)