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abortion
Title: abortion
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 907 | Pages: 3.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
abortion
For thousands of years of western civilization, abortion was generally illegal after "quickening" (the point at about four months into pregnancy when a baby kicks). This tradition can be traced back at least to the Ancient Greeks. In his book "Politics," Aristotle said that "the line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive." [1] Aristotle thus contended that the right to life generally accrues earlier than …showed first 75 words of 907 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 907 total…the chain of human life and possibly snuff out a human soul even with respect to an embryo, but I want people to make their own choices and would not try to impose my view on anyone else with respect to embryos. In contrast, the medical evidence is vastly more persuasive that a second trimester abortion actually has a thinking and feeling human being on the receiving end of the brutality.
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