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Published: 09.04.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Abortion', 1.
  • Essays 'Abortion', 2.
  • Essays 'Abortion', 3.
Extract

Abortion is a termination of pregnancy by a surgical procedure (Bishop, 1998, p.1). There are no abortion laws in Canada; however people's opinions about it are quite different. Abortion is a huge issue to which there is really no answer, but there are many opinions and some evidence. Anti-abortionists state that abortion is murder and pro-choice completely disagrees with that statement. This medical procedure is not murder, nor is it immoral. Abortion in not a killing of a human life, it is a termination of 130 cells clumped together (, 1989, p.33); these cells have "potential for life, which is quite different from actual life. The procedure is just a simple and short medical "surgery".
First of all, every fact about pregnancy and the fetus have to be known for one to be sure on whether abortion is wrong. …

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