Pro Life Debate

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One curious thing about the United States Census is that it does not include a count for unborn fetuses currently in America. Nevertheless, the Pro-Life movement would like everyone to believe that a “human being” is a person at the point of conception; if this is considered to be true, then why isn’t each unborn “person” counted? In the ancient world the unborn weren’t counted in similar census tallies and a baby wasn’t even considered a person until it reached at least one year of age. The first documented practice of abortion was discovered to have been performed over five thousand years ago in China, and there is similar proof of the practice of abortion found in every civilization that has ever existed. Abortions were a form of population control and were primarily used to preserve limited resources in small communities. Infancide in some parts of the world is a common practice to weed out the weak, the deformed and any unwanted pregnancy. The debate over the morality of abortion has raged for years, but only in the past two centuries has it become a main-stream issue. A person’s religious, social, cultural and moral beliefs usually determine whether or not they either approve or condemn the practice of abortion.…show more content…
Most abortions occur during the first nine weeks of pregnancy, about 61.3%, and there are only about 1.1% of abortions that occur after 21 weeks. Accordingly, the point at which an abortion should be denied depends upon the reason for the abortion. Depending on which state you live in, a late term abortion can be performed if there is a grave medical risk to the mother. Nonetheless, since there is a debate as to when a “late term” abortion actually is, there really is no definitive answer. However, a fetus is able to live outside a mother’s womb after the 27th week of gestation. Therefore the decision of when to have an abortion should be up to the woman, not

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