ABORTION: TO BE OR NOT TO BE - THAT IS THE QUESTION

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Term Paper Title	ABORTION: TO BE OR NOT TO BE - THAT IS THE QUESTION
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ABORTION:  TO BE OR NOT TO BE - THAT IS THE QUESTION

STATISTICS:

About 1.5 million American women have abortions each year. But many common assumptions about who these women are don't always stand up to scrutiny. Women who work are just as likely to have an abortion as those who do not work.

Age -  Teenagers are having abortions at a slightly lower rate than they were in 1987. Women ages 18 to 24, who make up 21% of the childbearing population, have 44% of all abortions.

Money - Women with annual family incomes of less than $15,000 are four times as likely to have abortions as women with family incomes of $60,000 or above.

Race - Blacks, who make up 14% of all childbearing women, have 31% of all abortions. Whites, who account for 81% of women of childbearing age, have 61%.

Religion - Women who claim no religious affiliation are four times as likely to have abortions as are religious women; 18% of abortion patients describe themselves as born-again or evangelical Christians. Catholic women have abortions as frequently as do all women of childbearing age.

Prevention - More than 57% of abortion patients say they used birth control during the month of conception. Of the religious patients, Catholics were the least likely to have used birth control.  55% of abortion patients have never ended a pregnancy before. Sixty-six percent plan to have children in the future. (*) footnote

ETHICAL DILIMMEA

I look around and see countless signs of moral decay all across the naiton.  But there lies a ethical dilemmea that far exceeds the question of the hour - breeding and selling unborn fetuses all in the name of research.   The use of tissues and organs from newborn and unborn babies is shaping up as the hottest medical debate of the next decade, and now presents pro-lifers, myself included, with a new challenge.  Women who are willing to lease their wombs from the production of fetal tissue to allow an older generation to live off other spare parts of the unborn.  Women have literally become fetal factories.

Living or freshly-killed, mid-pregnancy tissue is more desirable.  This makes the potential supply of available unborn fetuses be restricted to babies slated for abortion in the mid-trimester, babies delivered prematurely between the 16th and 24th week of pregnancy, and children born with a severely malformed brain that can only survive for a  few days or weeks.

In Australia and China have been experimenting with fetal pancreata transplants. I have re...

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