During the past quarter century, abortion has joined race and war as .
            
one of the most debatable subject of controversy in the United States. It .
            
discusses human interaction where ethics, emotions and law come together. .
            
Abortion poses a moral, social and medical dilemma that faces many .
            
individuals to create a emotional and violent atmosphere. There are many .
            
points of view toward abortion but the only two fine distinctions are .
            
"pro-choice" and "pro-life". A pro-choicer would feel that the decision to.
            
 abort a pregnancy is that of the mothers and the state has no right to .
            
interfere. A pro-lifer would hold that from the moment of conception, the .
            
embryo or fetus is alive. This life imposes on us a moral obligation to .
            
preserve it and that abortion is tantamount to murder (Kolner 5).       .
            
In the United States about 1.6 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 of abortion among girls younger than  15.
            
jumped 18 percent. The rate among minority teens climbed from 186 per .
            
1,000 to 189 per 1,000.        The most popular procedure involved in.
            
abortions is the vacuum  aspiration which is done during the first.
            
trimester (three months or less  since the women has become pregnant). A.
            
tube is simply inserted through the  cervix and the contents of the uterus.
            
are vacuumed out. The most commonly  used type of second trimester.
            
abortion is called dilation and evacuation.  Since the fetus has bones,.
            
bulk and can move, second trimester is not as  simple. When as much of the.
            
fetus and placenta are vacuumed out then  tweezers are used to remove.
            
larger parts. After this, or the beginning of  the fifth month abortion is.