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Issues Surrounding Abortion

Issues Surrounding Abortion

Abortion means expulsion of a fetus from the womb before it is able to survive. It is generally illegal. It is an issue that evokes, on all sides, very strong feelings and judgments and very heated recriminations. The most radical formulation of the anti-abortion or "pro-life" side of the debate views abortion as the murder of unborn children, and so as the equivalent of out and out infanticide, making the legal use of abortion. Legal abortion is an abortion that allowed by the law. Some country contended that the right to life generally accrues earlier than birth and irrespective of whether the baby is strong enough to survive after birth. This broad standard leaves plenty of room for special rules and exceptions in order to allow some late abortions for the life of the mother, rape, incest, grave fetal deformity, maiming of the mother, et cetera.

A doctor who was performing a legal abortion on a woman five months pregnant notice that the ‘aborted fetus’ actually was alive. If this happens, he or she is generally left to die. So, he held the fetus’s head inside the woman’s vagina canal until the fetus suffocated. The doctor’s thinking was that the fetus was intended to killed or born during the abortion, and that it’s being born alive was an error that could result in an unwanted child. Therefore, he felt that he had performed an act of mercy. That means to say he had taken a direct action to terminate one’s life without his or her permission.

When abortions are carried out, no precautions are taken to prevent the unborn baby from feeling this pain. There are three main ways that abortions are performed, depending on the age of the unborn baby. If the baby is under thirteen weeks of age, a method known as Suction Curettage is used. First, a suction tube with a knife-like edge is inserted into the womb. Then the baby is literally drawn and quartered as the spine, the legs, the arms, and all other parts are sliced off and sucked through the tube. Lastly, the head is crushed with forceps, so it too can be sucked up into the tube.

If the baby is over thirteen weeks of age, the "Salting Out! " method is used. A strong, sterile saltwater solution is injected...

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