In three weeks Sarah will leave for college. She broke up with her boyfriend last week and today she found out she was pregnant. Should Sarah have an abortion, or stop her plans in order to have a baby at eighteen? On January 22, 1973 the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision made abortion a constitutional right.
             Legally Sarah can have an abortion, but it has become a social issue that has become a large controversy. Abortions among college students are not widely accepted. According to a Planned Parenthood study done in 1997, forty percent of seventeen year olds will become pregnant before their twenty-fifth birthday. That statistic is directed to college age women. Should abortions be easily accepted among college students? My own viewpoint is "yes", abortions should become more easily accepted among college students.
             The main question facing society is the definition of a fetus' point of living. Even the Constitution gives no clear answer. The Constitution uses words like born or naturalized, that being interpreted to mean that the rights are protected once the fetus is born. Pro-lifers say that from the moment of conception the fetus is a person and therefore is a bearer of human rights, "a fertilized embryo is the foundation for a living human being". The other side says that the embryonic tissue is not living on its own; therefore it does not have human rights, "the fetus is only a potential human being, and we confuse actual with potential". The fetus cannot live outside of the mother; it is part of the mother.
             No conclusion has been made as to the exact moment when the fetus becomes a baby; it is a large gray area. So who is right and who is wrong? When is a fetus considered a baby? Who makes the definition of a human being? These are questions that will most likely never be answered. In coming to a compromise both sides need to accept and respect each o
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