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Abortion

 

In 1803 England banned all abortions, and this policy soon spread to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Throughout the middle and late 1800s, many states in the United States enacted similar laws banning abortion. The former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) legalized abortion in 1920, followed by Japan in 1948. During the 1960s and 1970, much of Europe and Asia, along with the United States, legalized abortion. The legalization of abortion in the U.S. began in 1966 when Mississippi passed a law permitting abortion in cases of rape. In the United States, the law allowed individual states to enact laws restricting abortion after viability, except in cases when abortion is necessary to preserve the life or health of the woman. Even though the United States is quite lenient with abortion; the practice of partial abortions is banned. In Cyprus, Israel, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland, abortion laws are still very restrictive allowing abortion only in cases of rape or fetal impairment, or to protect a woman's physical or mental health. Ireland is currently the only country where abortion is still illegal. While the right of Irish women to travel to England to obtain an abortion under limited circumstances is now established, there are no legal abortion services available in Ireland.
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             In the United States and other countries there are many ways in which an abortion can be induced. The way an abortion is induced can be safe or either unsafe, depending on the person and their environment. To abort a fetus a women can be given a combination of two drugs. Mifepristone a.k.a RU 486 which blocks progesterone, and Misoprostol. After 48 hours of taking RU 486, the woman takes Misoprostol which is an prostaglandin (a hormone-like chemical produced by the body) that causes contractions of the uterus, which in turns expels the fetus. Besides drugs used to abort a baby, there are several other ways a baby could be aborted.


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