Historical Bakground of the Abortion Conflict

Abortion is a very sensitive topic in United States society. Abortion is the topic of many important lawsuits in the country--from 1973 to the present--being decided by the United States Supreme Court. This research paper will outline the historical background of the abortion problem and discuss abortion as a social issue. The paper will explore the social problems exploited by advocates on the topic. The paper will be based on writings on the subject, because writings on the subject of abortion have very strong ("extreme") emotions behind them. The extreme emotions are the biggest part of the abortion writings from all points of view. Exploiting happens when the writers wish the readers to agree only with their position. It does not matter if the emotions are "pro choice," "pro life," or "anti-choice." This paper will evaluate the advocacy positions taken by all sides. Writings which are "pro choice," "anti choice," and "pro life" in the ideas they support will be discussed. By analyzing the abortion problem, the paper will predict possible solutions to resolve abortion conflicts.

In America, abortion is legal. But the abortion debate is loud and strong. Hundreds of abortion laws are introduced in the United States every year. This happens in the Congress and in state legislatures (Tonn, 1996). Often the final decisions concerning the constitutionality of these laws will be made by the United States Supreme Court (Supreme Court, 1975, p. 324). are always debated. This happ

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re intelligent people who disagree strongly with what I say here. I used to disagree strongly myself--before we had our own adopted son, before we saw what might have been sucked out and ground up in a "clinic" or "women's health centers" (most absurd terms for killing rooms for little girls and boys), before we learned what everyone now knows about just how alive a baby in the womb is. But I think any intelligent man or woman who thinks about just the possibility that abortion is murder will have a hard time stopping before the terminus of the notion that it is murder. And for those who don't care to make the trip down that road, perhaps you can imagine the feelings of the tens of millions of us who see clearly that abortion is a violent killing of the most innocent of humans (Stein, 1998, p. 59). One moral position is that there is a difference between early and late abortions. In Roe v. Wade, the "viability" issue made the legal court opinion that early abortion is better than late abortion (Sullivan, 1994). This idea is moral to pro-choice supporters. Other abortion types that are better are: abortion based on forcible rape, young age of pregnant girl, and mental defects (Sullivan, 1994). In other words: special exceptions we

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