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The Causes Of Abortion

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Abortion is one most divisive issues facing our country today. One of the main devastating causes that result in abortion is rape. Not only is rape a prime leading factor to having an abortion, but also numerous reasons such as negative impact on the mother’s life, financial instability, relationship problems, unwillingness to be a single mother and medical reasons such as diseases, medical disorders and stillbirth. Many people believe it is immoral and even consider it to be murder. The issue here is the pro-life supporters forget to understand the definition of abortion; “The termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to being capable of normal growth.” Pro-life believers do not support the idea of induced abortion and believe it should be illegal. As a matter of fact, if abortion were to be outlawed it would still be performed, unfortunately by an untrained or even uneducated staff. Pro-choice believers support the idea women should have the choice to do what she pleases with her own body. As an example; a woman that is raped by a man and becomes pregnant with his child she can decide that she doesn’t want to bear with the child of her rapist because it is too painful for her to cope with. Pro-choice supports take sympathies to these victims while on the other hand, these women get called murderers by pro-life supporters. Pro-life support the idea that every child has a right to live, even if the mother is financially

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