There are so many issues going on including drugs, alcohol, violence, and pregnancy. Abortion is a huge issue that has been an issue for many years. Abortion was not a major issue until the late 1800s and that is what I have decided to write about today. In 1967 the first two states to legalize abortion were Colorado and California. In June of 1970, New York passed the first abortion law. Around that time, abortions were only allowed if rape or incest occurred.
Abortion seems to be an important part of my generation’s life. Three in ten American girls will get pregnant once before the age of twenty. That is nearly 750,000 teen pregnancies every year. Parenthood is the main reason that teenage girls drop out of school. More than 50% of teenage mothers never graduate from high school and go off to college. They sometimes, but not always get their GED. About 25% of teen mothers have a second child within twenty-four months of their first baby. Also, less than 2% of teen mothers get a college degree by the age of thirty. The United States has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancies. In 2008, the teenage pregnancy rate of African-American and Hispanic teenage girls is from the ages of 15 to 19. Many teen girls who get pregnant are around the age of fifteen or sixteen, because they are so
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Abortion comes from the Latin word abortio from aboriri meaning ‘miscarry.’ So that means that abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. It is most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. Now is it legal? Abortion in the United States is legal, however, each individual state can regulate or limit the use of it. Is abortion morally justified? No it is not. Abortion is a cruel, unjustified act of murder. It is usually called a ‘woman’s right’ but people who are pro-life call it murder. Abortion is an act of murder; it is killing an unborn child. What it is, is it’s turning women against their own flesh and