... 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 which accentuates freedom in all matters sexual and ... for them to go through with pregnancy. Dr. Henry Morgentaler writes: "Mortality among pregnant teenage girls is sixty percent higher th...

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... Mary Anne Warren's Argument for Abortion is that of a liberal one. In her article, On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, she writes that " A women's right to protect her health, happiness, freedom, and even her life, by terminating an unwanted pregnancy, will always override whatever right to life it may be appropriate ... anyone for any reason, becoming just another form of birth control. Warren also fails to mention that abortions can damage a women's health. She says that it is the women's body and that she has the right to do what she wants to with it, to keep it healthy, but mis...

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