Essay | Abortion: Pro Life Vs. Pro Choice

Abortion an act filled with emotion, anger, sadness, and most of all questions. The medical definition of abortion is; the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus: as a: spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation (Abortion Merriam-Webster Dictionary). However, this definition does not even begin to describe the true nature of what abortion is. Whether you are pro-life, pro-choice, or undecided the debate surrounding a child's right to live versus a woman's right to control her body, will no matter what affect you.

Through searching on the internet, reading books, and watching documentaries I have seen, read, and even heard things I never thought I would. Stories of botched abortions that allow the fetus to be born horribly deformed and handicapped, requests from both sides of the argument...
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