Abortion is defined by a decidedly objective source (the dictionary) as "a fatally premature expulsion of a fetus from the womb" (Webster 2). Abortions are performed in a variety of ways. The procedure depends on how long the woman has been pregnant and where she decides to have

Menstrual extraction is a form of a suction curettage that doesn't use a curette and is sometimes performed even before a pregnancy test has confirmed pregnancy. A suction curettage is performed from six to 14 weeks after the "mother's" last period. A blunt suction tube is inserted into the uterus which extracts the baby and the uterus lining. Then a narrow metal loop called a curette is used to scrape the walls of the uterus to make sure that it has been completely emptied. The saline method is used after the sixteenth week. It is an abortion where the baby is poisoned by a salt solution that is injected through the woman's abdomen into the amniotic sac. The baby is delivered, usually with an anesthetic that lessens the woman's pain to that of natural childbirth. Prostaglandin is used during the same timeframe as a saline abortion. Prostaglandin is a hormone that induces labor. In a prostaglandin abortion a synthetic version of the hormone is either injected into the amniotic!

This excerpt from Justice Blackmun's address cites the ninth amendment and the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment. "Amendment IX. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." The due process clause of amendment XIV:

One half of the abortions in America occur in the first two weeks after the woman discovers her pregnancy. Ninety percent are performed during the first trimester. Less than nine percent of abortions are during the second trimester which leaves a little more than one percent of abortions that are performed during the third trimester.

ares the statutes void as vague and overbroadly infringing [the] plaintiff's ninth and fourteenth amendment rights." (Justice Blackmun)

There are hypocracies in the laws of the United States. In this country a woman can walk into a licensed clinic or hospital and have her unborn baby removed with no legal repercussions for her or the doctor. Although, if this woman would have, through no fault of her own, been in an automobile accident on the way to this licensed facility and lost her baby due to this accident, the other driver would by law have been charged with fetal homicide and gone to jail. Furthermore the woman could have sued for wrongful death and become a millionaire. The same would be true if there was no wreck and she stopped on the way at a McDonald's that was being robbed and got shot and as a result lost the child. As stated before, murder is illegal and abortion is murder. Therefore Roe v. Wade should be overturned and abortion should be made illegal. It is not that simple, however. The decision in Roe v.Wade cited constitutional principles for the legality of abortion. "The [Supreme] Court decl!

A zygote is the first complete human cell that is the result when the sperm enters the ovum. Since the zygote is a living human, and killing hu

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