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Abortion

Abortion refers to the termination of a pregnancy resulting in the removal of fetus, and has been legalized in all the fifty states by the Supreme Court of America in 1973, for medical or social reasons (Roe v. Wade, 1973 and Doe v. Bolton, 1973). Whether morally accepted or not, abortion today is a large part of society and provides an alternative and a choice to women whether they want to have a baby or not. The reasons may be numerous, ranging from personal to societal to medical.
The occurrence and debate regarding the morality or immorality of abortion, is a historically ancient subject, and women have been involved in the practice of abortion since times immemorial (Devereux, G., 1955). According to Devereux George (1955), there is evidence to prove that more than three hundred currently existing societies, practice abortion in non-industrial settings.
Early and Peters (1990) state that the women of the Yanomami tribe of the Amazon would jump on the stomach of a pregnant woman to abort the child. Similar methods have been described as being used by the African and south Asian tribes to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Shepherd (1995) elucidates a method used by the Surayas of Taiwan sometime in the 17th century, where abortion was carried out by powerful massages of the stomach …

Abortions have been the topic of regular debate in societies, especially the current modern ones, with respect to the right of the fetus to live. Opponents of abortion state many religious, moral and ethical reasons for banning the practice of abortion. Opponents of abortion argue that by the time the mother realizes she is pregnant, the fetus’s heart has already begun to beat…