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Published: 20.04.2006.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Abortion: Secularism vs Religion', 1.
Extract

Abortion is a controversy between secularism and religion since the beginning of civilization. Today, 46 million abortions occur worldwide every year and eighty-six percent of pregnancy deaths are illegal abortions and one percent legal. Abortion can be defined as the 'expulsion' of a fetus in a womb, a definition where expulsion becomes an issue. Abortion is one of the most debatable ethnical and moral issues in current society influencing millions of women. The abortion controversy states: right vs. wrong, murder vs. death, and life vs. nonliving.

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