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Do you consider abortion to be murder ? Why? Or why not

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Is there a right or wrong to abortion? Explain your reasoning should abortions be illegal?

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I am fully for Hilary clinton and her quote because i am neither for or against abortion because it is your choice in life to make and it it up to u and nobody else

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"We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices." - Hillary Clinton quotes from BrainyQuote.com

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I chose this picture becasue I feel that it has a deeper meaning. To me this picture represents society being for abortion and the effect of 1 individual speaking up against abortions. To many people feel that there voice wont be heard so therefore they choose not to speak for life

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In this article it mostly points out why abortions are considered wrong and how we can used diffrent ways to handle life such adoption and other contreseptives such as plan B or the most known Birth Control.

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Why is abortion bad? This page lists the cons of abortion and refutes pro-choice arguments.

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In this article it discusses how we can choose other options other than adoption because it is said that abortion should not be an option. int he beginning of the article they show statistics of the ratings of which ethnicity gets the most abortions and African Americans are the Highest. In this link it also talks about reasons why you should not get abortions reasons such as doubling the chance of getting breast cancer and suffering from post truamatic stress syndrome.

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Why Abortion Should Be Illegal By: Mariah O'Fallon

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this artcles basically tries to open the eyes of those who are against abortions, by stating positive facts and some opinions on abortion

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No apologies necessary

Here's something you don't hear every day: Abortion can be life enriching.

It's an idea, among many, that Linda Weber discusses in her book, "Life Choices: The Teachings of Abortion." Weber was one of the founding members in 1973 of Boulder Valley Women's Health, then Boulder Valley Clinic, the first clinic in Colorado to offer abortions. She created the counseling program there and worked as director of counseling until 1987. She now works as a psychotherapist.

Weber wrote the book over a period of 20 years. What started out as a manual for counselors got broadened to include historical perspective on women's reproductive rights, then broader yet to include a spiritual perspective, which developed as Weber talked to clients in her practice. Most importantly, she says, the book is for women who have had abortions. She adds that the experience can be positive in many ways.

"The choice to say no to a pregnancy creates an opening for other things to happen in a person's life," she says. "Life becomes more than it was when she made the decision ... job, creative endeavor, relationship, another pregnancy. There is a creation of something that came from saying no. I think life is one whole thing. Life is one unity and has many different aspects," she says. "I wanted to bring that perspective (to) a discussion of abortion."

Weber's choice of the word "life" is intentional.

"I've been concerned for some time about the monopolization of the word 'life' by people who are anti-abortion," she says. "I think it's inappropriate. We need to reclaim that."

Indeed, the word life and concept of life occurring at conception is the very crux of the belief system of antiabortion groups, as are the terms "killing" and "murder."

"It's always wrong to kill a baby," says Leslie Hanks, vice president of Colorado Right to Life. "Women have to live with the guilt of what they did. God has written on our consciousness that it's wrong to kill an innocent life."

Intertwined or separate

In "Life Choices," Weber talks about the sheer biological power of being a woman, having the ability to bring life forth from her body or in her phrasing to "turn it back."

She cites one client she worked with who compared her abortion with pinching a leaf off a plant to allow stronger growth.

"It was such an important idea," Weber says of her client's metaphor. "She had an equilibrium in her decision and a perception of her experience that was unusual and valuable to know about."

Weber believes that it's impossible physically and philosophically to separate a woman from her pregnancy.

"I feel like separating out the developing pregnancy and the fetus from the woman is demeaning for women. It's also not true. There is no separation," she says. "There's no such thing as abstract life. Life has to be nurtured. It exists only in relationship. Life is being part of what nurtures it."

Contrast that with the personhood movement, a referendum on which failed last week in the conservative state of Mississippi and in Colorado in 2008 and 2010, which considers a fertilized egg a person entitled to full constitutional rights.

Hanks of Colorado Right to Life, which has supported the personhood amendments, believes a distinct life is created at fertilization. She compares abortion with slavery.

"The black man was considered property to be disposed of, used or harmed, the same way a baby is considered property of the mother. The baby is a person," she says. "We don't have a right to make a willy nilly decision to (have an abortion) because of a career choice or a bad hair day."

Many people, whether they favor abortion rights or oppose abortions, have a position somewhere in between solely woman-centered and solely embryo- or fetus-centered, from the "safe, legal and rare" formulation on abortion rights by former president Bill Clinton or exceptions for rape and incest by some who oppose abortion rights.

Rickie Solinger, an historian who has written several books on abortion and related topics, says Weber's perspective on abortion is not uncommon among women who fought in the 1960s and early 1970s for the legalization of abortion.

Solinger, a former visiting scholar at the University of Colorado who lived in Boulder for 13 years, says in the days leading up to and after legalization many women saw being able to get a legal abortion as a crucial right in their fight for equality.

"I think the women of my generation were expressing the perspective how -- I don't want to use a word so dramatic -- how enslaving it was not to be able to control the consequences of sex," she says. "To know we would be able to enter professions, to complete an education."

She adds there were professional women before legal abortion.

"In an earlier period, they didn't get married and have children," she says.

She adds that the antiabortion movement has been extremely successful in altering the way people think about abortion.

"When the antiabortion movement was smart enough to ally itself with the concept of life, to suggest that people who violated this relation to life could be called murderers, this was an enormously effective tactic," Solinger says.

In her book, Weber recounts her own abortion, at age 19 in the early 1960s. After becoming pregnant and realizing she was not in a position to have a child, she met with a woman who offered to "do something" to her and also suggested that as an alternative, she go to a clinic and request that an intra-uterine device be implanted. Weber used a false name and wore a fake wedding ring. The doctor quizzed her closely on whether she was pregnant. She denied it, and he inserted the IUD. Over five days of cramping, bleeding and fever, the abortion was complete.

Complexity, not judgment

If there's one thing those of different beliefs have in common, it's desire to come up with a simple, consistent way to view/judge abortion.

Weber rejects the idea of trying make the abortion debate fit into a neat category.

"It can be a significant experience for many women," Weber says. Yet, she says, "It's just another experience. Life is full of them. I don't believe in categorizing an experience as good or bad. It might feel good or bad, but it's not good or bad in terms of morality."

While she stands firmly in the pro-abortion rights camp, she says her book is not political, but rather an exploration of the way individual women feel about their abortions and how the experience can be an opportunity for them to examine their lives, their relationships and their sexuality.

Weber, who has counseled more than 1,000 women on their abortion decisions, says most women are not conflicted about having an abortion.

But she says, "there are (sometimes) other issues that come up in the context of having an abortion. Sex and sexuality is one, relationship is another, life direction, life purpose. There are very important issues that come up for some people when there is a crisis pregnancy, a whole complex of issues of self-esteem and self-worth. That's not about abortion, it's about much more."

Karen DeClerk, the current supervisor of counseling at Boulder Valley Women's Health, says Weber's book is the most honest she has read about abortion.

"It's honest about the complexity of the issue," she says. "Linda's perspective comes from talking to hundreds of women making these choices."

DeClerk says many women seeking abortions are not the stereotype of a young woman who sleeps with a lot of men. The Alan Guttmacher Institute, a research and advocacy group for sexual and reproductive health reports that women in their 20s account for almost half of all abortions. It also reports, however, that about 61 percent of women who have abortions already have one or more children.

"We have married women, women in committed relationships, women who have had sex one time in six years. We also see menopausal women. They don't expect to be fertile, yet their body still produces eggs," DeClerk says. "The reality is we have 40 years of reproductive fertility as women. The fact is women get pregnant when they aren't planning to, even when they have taken precautions."

The abortion closet

If Weber's matter-of-fact tone about abortion seems a little jarring, historian Solinger says that might be because the societal narrative about abortion has changed in the decades after legalizaion.

"If you look at the literature about abortion, the way women describe their experiences from the first couple of decades after legalization, you will find a very full and rich expression of exactly what (Weber is) talking about," says Solinger, who wrote "Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States." "(That) suggests to me that women getting abortions (now) only express relief, a sense of autonomy and the ability to control their own bodies within ... the protected space of the clinic."

Solinger says women often do not talk about their abortions.

"When I lecture around colleges, I ask students, 'How many of you know somebody who has had an abortion? You know it, but the person has never told you.' Almost everybody raises her hand. It's a complete secret," Solinger says. "That's something that's gathered intensity over the last 25 years."

If indeed most women who have had abortions don't talk about their experience, that's a lot of secrets. At least half of American women will experience an unintended pregnancy by age 45, and, at current rates (which have been declining), three in 10 women by age 45 will have an abortion, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute. Currently, 22 percent of all pregnancies, excluding miscarriages, end in abortion.

Solinger says that in the late 1960s and early 1970s before Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, abortion speakouts, in which women spoke of their experience with then-illegal abortion, were common.

Weber believes her book will let women know that others may be experiencing the same thing they are. She acknowledges that some people have characterized the book as provocative. For people who believe life begins at conception, the book would be shocking. And even for some who support abortion rights, the book might not comport with their view of abortion.

"People become very apologetic about (having an abortion)," Weber says. "I'm saying you don't have to justify it. In my experience, women are honest with themselves about what they feel and what they think. They're very careful in making that decision."

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Abortion 'can be positive,' writes Linda Weber, co-founder of Boulder clinic

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No apologies necessary Here's something you don't hear every day: Abortion can be life enriching. It's an idea, among many, that Linda Weber discusses in her book, "Life Choices: The Teachings of Abortion." Weber was one of the founding members in 1973 of Boulder Valley Women's Health, then Boulder Valley Clinic, the first clinic in Colorado to offer abortions.

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In this article i chose it takes all the negative accusations toward abortions and turns them into a positve light. this article also answered some of the questions i had myself towards abortions and that was did it increase the chance of having breast cancer. which was scientifically proven it did not cause or link to breast cancer.

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The Catholic Church and the "religious right" are the backbone of the anti-abortion movement. Pro-choice religious people see anti-abortion laws as a violation of religious liberty. Abortion is a religious issue, because the stated basis of opposition to abortion is the theological question of when personhood begins.

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WHO: Women and young women

WHAT:Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by the removal or forcing out from the womb of a fetus or embryo before it is able to survive on its own.[note 1] An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is often called a miscarriage. It can also be purposely caused in which case it is known as an induced abortion. THIS TOPIC GOING THROUGH WITH ABORTIONS MAS FAR AS LEGALIZING THEM AND DOING THEM THE PROPER WAY OR KEEPING THEM BANNED

WHEN: Early as 1700- NOW. An estimated 44 million abortions are performed globally each year, with slightly under half of those performed unsafely.[10] Rates of abortions have changed little between 2003 and 2008,[10] after having previously spent decades declining as access to education regarding family planning and birth control improved

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When allowed by law, abortion in the developed world is one of the safest procedures in medicine. Modern methods use medication or surgery for abortions. The drug mifepristone in combination with prostaglandin appears to be as safe and effective as surgery during the first and second trimester of pregnancy.