Late-Term Abortion Ethics

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Nicole Langlois Hour 1 Ethics paper 12-5-11 A growing issue in our world is late-term abortion. With more and more people going either pro-life or pro-choice it is becoming a huge controversy in the world. Most people are very uninformed and don’t understand what exactly goes on in the procedure. Late term abortion are performed between 16-20 weeks in gestation and beyond that time the pregnancy is viable, or the baby is able to live outside of the uterus with assistance. That being said, people believe that the baby is able to feel the pain initiated by the abortion. Some states have banned the late-term abortion because of this; others require a physician’s approval, or a second physician to be present during the procedure, etc. There

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