"Abortion," the sound of the word conjures up many horrible images, and is, in fact, a controversial and emotional issue. Abortion has been going on all over the world for centuries. In the Encarta English World Dictionary, abortion is defined as "an operation or other intervention to end a pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus from the womb." Due to a number of deaths caused by abortion since 1973, abortion can be considered a holocaust.
             Abortion has two different viewpoints. One view, known as the pro-life, sees abortion as the immoral slaughter of innocent life. The other view, pro-choice, considers abortion as an option that must be available to women if they are to control their own reproductive lives. These two groups deal with abortion everyday since it has been legal. Women who want to enter abortion clinics are met by "sidewalk counselors" who try to persuade them against having an abortion (Guersney 39). The battle for abortion reform began in the 1960s, about the same time as the women's movement began. Ten years after abortion became legal, efforts by the pro-life movement aroused little response. People weren't interested in the debate, which the Supreme Court seemed to have settled. During the early 1980s, pro-life grouips reshaped their imaege. They used more women than men to be their spokesperson. They changed their views on abortion in cases or rape or incest to the rights of the fe!
             tus. Pro-life advocated believed that a fetus is considered a human being. On the other hand, pro-choice believers say a human being is considered a human being when it is outside its mother's womb.
             The one question that pro-life and pro-choice advocates try to prove is, "When the human life begin?" Pro-life believers believe that human life begins when the woman's eggs has been fetilized by the man's sperm. Dr. Bernars Nathanson states- while sh...