The Governing Powers of Abortion

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Can you imagined being called a “little angel”–a term used to describe babies who have yet to live their lives as they have passed on to the other side. Life in the animal kingdom is often seen as violent as animals must find ways to survive like producing many offspring to offset the many that will inevitably die in the cycle of life. Us as humans follow the same path but parents have much “more” to worry about with their children. There’s down syndrome, disease, and unforeseen circumstances like miscarriages or sudden infant death syndrome. However, there are often times when mothers, couples, husbands, and wives choose to not go through pregnancy–the termination of one’s pregnancy at any stage is abortion. Abortion has been a long standing issue and debate amongst the world and especially in the United States. How did the topic of abortion come to be so controversial and why is it still one of the most popular subjects touched upon in the media today? Two groups spearhead the abortion debate; they are the pro-life side (against abortion) and the pro-choice side (for abortion as the women’s choice).
Abortion predates many medical practices of today. Today, where society is considered much more “humane” and “politically correct”; it is hard to imagine and stomach the methods of abortion in ancient times with the use of many unsafe abortifacients (any substance that will cause a miscarriage) such as trying to digest mercury. Up until the 1800s, abortion practices and malpractices went largely unnoticed as it was seemingly a norm of society. Most of the people performing the abortions were the midwives of pregnant women and the success rates of the women actually surviving the procedure were alarmingly low. Great Britain was the ...

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