Abortions

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ate in the United States and Canada: A Source Book )The “abortion pill,” the drug

RU-486 (mifepristone), was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the

United States in 2000. It is used within the first seven weeks of pregnancy. A second drug

is taken two days later to start uterine contractions and complete the abortion. (J. M.

Riddle, Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance) The

drugs methotrexate and misoprostol have also been used experimentally to end early

pregnancies.( The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2001 Columbia

University Press.) . Therefore, it is clear that there exist several medical techniques for

aborting an unborn child. However, the Pro- Life and Pro- Choice controversy still exists,

with strong arguments on both sides of the issue. Let us now take a look into the Pro-

Life decision and then into the Pro- Choice alternative .

Human life begins at conception. In other words, the unborn begins “life” as soon

as the male’s sperm fertilizes the female’s egg. Therefore, conducting an abortion, would

be the murder of that person because the fetus is in no real sense "part" of the mother, but

is a separate and distinct human being. Pro-choice people insist that the fetus is nothing

but a worthless blob of tissue. They refuse to face the fact that there's a miniature person

in that womb. Therefore, the right of the unborn to live supersedes any right of a woman

to "control her own body."( Westchester Coalition for Legal Abortion, Inc,

http://www.wcla.org/articles/procon.html)

Abortion should not be legal in the U.S. for right to life must be protected . A...