Pro-Life vs Pro_choice

             For the last 31 years a battle has been raging among people of all ages and races, in every part of not only the country but the world, and perpetuates some of the most heated debates we have ever known. It causes strife among families and churches. It makes us think about our own morals and principles. It makes us say and do things that, normally, we would never think of doing. Things like yelling at people we have never met before, getting arrested in a strange city, spending hundreds of dollars a year to fly to new places to defend our opinions. That battle is between people who believe abortion is a positive thing and people who believe abortion is a negative thing. Pro-lifers and pro-choicers battle it out on the streets of our nation everyday and some of us aren't even aware of it.
             Pro-lifers have three main beliefs. The first is that the fetus inside the mother is fully human from the point of conception. The second, abortion is fundamentally a civil rights issue, not a religious one, and third, that because the fetus inside the mother is fully human, abortion is morally wrong. These arguments have been used throughout the last 31 years an just about everyone has heard them once or twice in their lifetimes. Pro-choicers have counter-arguments that have been thought about just as hard and long.
             Abortion is a abortion thing because the earth is becoming overpopulated. Every child born should be a wanted child. The fetus is part of the mother's body and , therefore, she should be able to do with it what she wants. You've heard all these as well, I'm sure. These are the most common arguments on the pro-choice side. But before you can counter-attack most of these, on either side, you have to beg the question "What constitutes humanity?"
             Personally, I believe that a human life begins at conception. The child has it's own DNA, it's own fingerprints and it'
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