Are the Mental and Physical Health Risks of an Abortion Worth Not Having a Child?

Abortion can be defined in many scientific and non-scientific ways, but the basic definition is bringing about termination of a pregnancy by ejecting a fetus that is not able to survive on its own. "The right to have an abortion is 'reproductive freedom'" ("On Abortion: A Lincoln Position"). The fetus is "the unborn young from the end of the eight week after conception up until birth" ("What is an Abortion"-About Abortion: What is It). …

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