Essay Archive - Abortion
Abortion
Approximately 1.6 million legal abortions are performed each year.1
The majority of Americans support legal abortion. Groups that oppose
abortion believe a fetus is a person and that aborting is murder. All
women have the right to choose an abortion.
Supporters of choice believe that abortion is not the same as
taking life. In 1985, a Newsweek poll revealed that 76% of Americans
agreed abortion should be legal.2 A wide variety of professional, women’s,
and religious groups, such as the National Organization for Women (NOW),
the American Medical Association, and the National Association for the
Repeal of Abortion La....
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