Abortion Essay Research Paper Abortion 1Running head

Abortion Essay, Research Paper

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Running head: ABORTION

A Study of the Facts and

Points of Views on Abortion

Sociology 200-10

November 12, 1999

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Table of Contents

Page

I. Introduction

Today in the United States 3

Objective of Research Paper 3

II. Review of Literature

Conception 3

Statistics 4

Surgical Abortions 5

Non-Surgical Abortions 7

Pro-Choice Point-of-View 7

Pro-Life Point-of-View 8

III. Conclusion

Quote – The Prophet 9

Gifts 10

Life 10

IV. References 11

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A Study of the Facts and

Points of Views on Abortion

Introduction

Today in the United States

Today, policies regarding legal abortion in the United States are being debated everywhere from the halls of Congress to the street corners of our smallest towns. In the United States, the pro-choice and pro-life movements are both powerful and active. At this time compromise appears to be impossible.

Objective of Research Paper

The objective of this research paper was to determine different facts and point-of-views on abortion. I myself am a pro-lifer and sorry to say bias on the subject, though in this paper I tried to put that aside and be open-minded. It is my intent to present a review of the literature on conception and 1st, 2nd, & 3rd trimester abortions, discuss differences in beliefs and point of views, and present my opinion on this highly controversial subject of abortion.

Review of Literature

Conception

The baby is conceived at the moment the male sperm unites with the mother’s egg (Stewart, 1992a). The single cell, which is then formed, can now be called a zygote. If the pregnancy is normal, then the zygote will multiply and form itself into several other cells, then it will travel through the fallopian tube, enter the womb (the uterus), it will then implant itself into the uterine wall. When

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the process of implantation has been completed, one to two weeks after conception, it can then be stated that the pregnancy is well established and on its

way to the full development of the baby, and that the zygote can now be called an embryo.

As soon as the placenta and the umbilical cord have become established, the embryo can then take the nourishment that it needs through these two things. The umbilical cord and the placenta provide nourishment to the baby from the blood of the mother so that it can grow primitive limbs and organs.

The baby’s heart starts beating by the time it has become three weeks old (that is also eighteen days) (Stewart, 1996a). By the age of forty-five days, the baby has detectable brain waves. Arms, legs, fingers, toes, and feet are all formed by the eighth week, and by the twelfth week, the baby will begin to suck its thumb. Most babies can live outside of the womb by the time they are twenty to twenty-eight weeks old. Birth generally will occur when the baby is anywhere from thirty-eight weeks old to forty weeks old.

Statistics

Every year there are more then one point six million abortions performed in the United States alone (Baker, 1995). As of 1987, twenty-one percent of women in America that were between the ages of fifteen and forty-four had an abortion. If this rate, persists, then this percentage will grow, and by the time menopause is reached, forty-six percent of the women in the United States will have had at least one abortion (Lunneborg, 1992). These estimates can also be

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made because for every five children born in the United States, there will be two abortions performed. British Sociologist Collin Francome has predicted that

more than four out of every ten American women will have at least one abortion in their life (Lunneburg, 1992).

Of the one point six million abortions performed per year only five to six percent are done to benefit the health of the mother (Stewart, 1996b). That leaves ninety three percent of the abortions are not down for the health of the mother. Another forty percent of these abortions are down by women who have had previous abortions (David, 1995).

According to Congress, about 89% of abortions are done in the first trimester (three months); they total about 1.4 million/year in the United States. About 140,000 second trimester (four to six months) abortions are performed yearly; representing about 9% of the total. About 2% of abortions are preformed in the third trimester (seven to eight months) of pregnancy, that’s 3,200. However, the fact, unavoidable on hard paper, is that out of the thousands of abortion centers, a single abortion center in New Jersey committed over three thousand 3rd trimester abortions per year (Rosenblatt, 1992). There is also a clinic in New York that commits more then a few thousand per year.

Surgical Abortions

One type of technique used during the first trimester is the suction curettage (vacuum aspiration) (Baker, 1995). This technique is used early in the 1st trimester. The cervix is dilated with a series of instruments. A tube is inserted

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into the uterus and connected to a strong vac

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