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Abortion Abortion has become one of America’s most controversial issues. Approximately 1.5 million legal abortions are performed in the United States each year. What exactly is abortion anyway? Depending on who you ask, you will get different answers. The dictionary defines abortion as the termination or a pregnancy resulting in the death of the embryo or fetus. Some people say that various methods of birth control are the same as abortions. Each year more that six million American women become pregnant. For more that half of them, it is by accident. About thirteen percent of unintended pregnancies end in a miscarriage. An estimated forty percent result in the birth of a child. The remaining forty-seven percent end in abortion. “Two out of three American women will have at least one unintended pregnancy in their lives”(Day, 7). “Also each year 50,000 to 100,000 women die after receiving an abortion in unsafe of unsanitary conditions“(Dahlburg, H2). Margaret Sanger was a nurse working in a New York ghetto in the early 1900’s. She believed that women would be in a lot less pain and suffering if they had access to contraception. In 1916, Sanger opened a birth control clinic in a poor immigrant neighborhood. She was arrested and put in jail. The appeal to have her case reviewed led to a ruling that licensed physicians had the right to provide birth control advice to married women for health reasons.
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