INTRODUCTION. There is no more divisive social subject in America than abortion. Despite the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision to "legalize" the woman's right to choose an abortion, as more and more conservative Christians join the mainstream, there are not merely vocal but also physical antagonisms on the subject. Doctors have been killed, clinics fire-bombed, and confrontations between the two "sides" have seldom ended peacefully. As a young woman, I am vitally concerned not so much with legal or political judgments, but the moral one.
PRO CHOICE. Many women still believe they have a right to choose whether to have an abortion or not. The deem it is their Constitutional as well as moral right t
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