abnormalities, and three percent due to the mother's health. In America, since nineteen seventy-three, approximately forty million babies have been killed due to abortion. In Canada, since nineteen seventy, over one point seven million babies have been killed due to abortion. These statistics would affect America's point-of-view about abortion. Right now seventy and one-quarter percent of Americans are pro-choice or for abortion, and only twenty-four and one-quarter percent are against abortion (five and one-half percent are undecided). These statistics, however, include all reasons for aborting a child. Only forty-four percent of Americans are in favor of abortion as a way to end unwanted pregnancies, with fifty-five percent of Americans pro-life or against abortion (one percent are undecided). Abortion gets most of its support because people believe that more abortions are done in order to save the mother's life, because the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest, or because there is a strong chance the child may be born with a serious defect (Henshaw and Kost).
             There are several health consequences for the mother after having an abortion. For women aborting a first pregnancy, the risk of breast cancer almost doubles after a first-trimester abortion and is multiplied with two or more abortions. Women that have had an abortion also have elevated risks of get ovarian and liver cancer (Quade). Between two and three
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