Why Abortion Attitudes Will Always Be Controversial

Why Abortion Attitudes Will Always Be Controversial

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  • Date Submitted: 10/15/2008 4:18 PM
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Why Abortion Attitudes will always be controversial
Throughout the century, mankind has been able to control, in many ways, the birth rate of children. One in particular is the abortion method which is terminating a pregnancy which has already occurred. Abortion is one of the highest arguments in the United States due to the diverse beliefs about the topic. This particular issue is of highest sensitivity due to the opinions of when actual personhood begins. The two arguments include pro-life, which is to allow the pregnancy to take its natural course without any interruption, and pro-choice, which is the ability to make a decision whether or not to terminate a pregnancy. These opinions have created such intense attitudes in the United States that there have been laws and regulations passed for the health and safety of the people. Attitudes ranging from the morals and values of life itself are individualized. Abortion became so prevalent, the American Medical Association (AMA) began its involvement it 1871. The article Attitudes to Abortion in America by R. Sauer gives an outline of how abortion developed and grew beginning in the 1800’s to the 1970’s. Sauer sketches the American attitudes by examining professional and popular literature of this time. Interestingly, abortions transition from secrecy to public advertisements has formed biases written and spoken by people for a long time.
Abortions began as early as the 1800’s during the pre-Civil War era. This was noted in many writings during this time to be a rare and secret occurrence from marital and non marital women. (Troy, 1) In 1857, a pre-Civil War writer declared that abortion was scarcely known to the generation of our fathers. (Reese, 1) These rare incidences were used for many of the same reasons women choose abortion today. However, some women in this era elected this act for an odd reason to avoid repetition of labor pains which they may have suffered previously....

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