The coexistence of opposite and conflicting feelings about abortion is centuries old. Disagreements between public policy, morality and individual behavior on this issue existed even at the time of Plato and Aristotle. In the past few decades abortion issue has been brought into sharper focus and has been vigorously debated. A number of factors are responsible for this, but perhaps the major one has been that associated with the sexual revolution that emphasizes freedom in all matters of sexuality

In the United States about 106 million pregnancies end in abortion. Women with incomes under eleven thousand are over three times more likely to abort than those with incomes above twenty-five thousand. Unmarried women are four to five times more likely to abort than married and the abortion rate has doubled for 18 and 19 year olds. Recently the U.S. rate dropped 6 percent overall, but the rate among minority teens climbed from 186 per 1,000 to 189 per 1,000.

My personal belief is that each woman should have a right to decide whether she wants to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. For reasons of women’s right to self-determination, protection of their health, rape or incest, old age, and adequate care of children who are born in order to prevent child abuse and mental disease, easy access to abortion is a must. Most abortions occur because contraception condition of the mother which could lead to her death. In these situations abortion is often the only way that prevents the birth of an unwanted child and saves a mother’s life

The abortion controversy has created an emotional atmosphere that lead to violence against the pro-choice advocates. In the essay “ The abortion Clinic Shootings: Why? “ written by Randall A. Terry gives a justification of why such violent occurs.

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