abortion

             Throughout this paper we will talk about the different topics of an abortion. I am not really for abortion, but I am not against abortion either. There has to be a good reason for a mother to want to have an abortion for it to be all right.
             As a young kid, we probably asked ourselves what is abortion? It is the killing of the fetus or embryos before it is able to develop and live outside the uterus. They also ask what are the alternatives for abortion? The only one is for you to go through all of the pain and emotional times and then give the baby up for adoption.
             There are two types of abortions. The first one is induced abortion. That is a procedure meant to kill a known pregnancy. It may occur for many reasons: to save the life of physical or mental well-being of the mother, to prevent a pregnancy from rape or incest, and to prevent a birth of a child with major deformity, a mental deficiency or genetic
             abnormality. This procedure is usually performed within the first twelve weeks.
             The second type is spontaneous abortion. It occurs when the embryo fails to develop. It will occur before a women's pregnancy can be confirmed. Three fourths of all pregnancies are spontaneously aborted. When this happens, a women may experience cramping and blood loss. This will usually occur around the twentieth week of the pregnancy. Another name for this is a miscarriage. This occurs when the fetus fails to develop after twenty weeks.
             Half of all miscarriages are caused by defects in the fetus or uterus. This is natures way of dealing with a fetus that won't survive outside the uterus. Abortions or miscarriages may be caused by; diseases, trauma, and genetic biochemical incompatibility of the mother and fetus (Swanson, 35-36). Ten to twenty percent of women pregnant suffer miscarriages after the first ten days (Washam, 10). Seventy five percent of all fertilized human eggs are naturally...

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