Abortion

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abortion, which lead to development of back alley abortion clinics (Henshaw). This also turned out to be detrimental to the mother, due to infection. Following many decades later in 1973, the Supreme Court decided to legalized abortion after the Roe v. Wade case.

The Roe v. Wade case was about women name Roe that wanted to get an abortion, but couldn't because it was illegal. After dealing with the court system, the Supreme Court decided to legalize abortion on the term that women have the right to privacy. "After hearing the Case, the Supreme Court ruled that Americans' right to privacy included the right of a woman to decide whether to have children, and the right of a woman and her doctor to make that decision without state interference" (Henshaw). This lead to two main decision points for the majority of the population either is pro-choice, or pro-life. A person that is pro-choice believes that women have the right to choose to have an abortion. The baby has no right ...

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quickly and the fetus and placenta are cut into pieces and sucked through the tube into a bottle and discarded), dilation and evacuation (forceps are inserted which snap the fetus bones to dismember and remove it), and prostaglandin chemical abortion (chemicals that cause the uterus to contract more violently than normal, so the fetus is usually killed) (Creinin). Statistical data provided by Kaiser family foundation states that 89% of abortions were done in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, it was common in low income women, and that 57% of women chose medical abortions versus chemical abortion.

Before getting an abortion, the woman usually goes through a series of preparation and ...

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