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the right to choose

The Right to Choose.
About half of the world’s people live in countries where abortion is available upon request, and another fourth live in areas where abortion is permitted to protect the women’s health. For many reasons abortions should be legal, for safety purposes, and for many, personal purposes. Each year, about 84,000 women die from failed abortion attempts given to them by unqualified abortionist to avoid harassment. Abortion should not only be tolerated in the United States, but also in other countries.
Abortion was first used as a form of birth control in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome and probably earlier. In the Middle Ages in Western Europe it was generally accepted in the early months of pregnancy. However, methods of abortion remotely modern didn't appear until the nineteenth century, and opinions about abortion changed. In 1869, under great pressure from social leaders and the Roman Catholic Church abortion became prohibited under any circumstances and laws beca...

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