According to abort73.com an estimated 908,000 abortions took place in 2014 in the United States. This is no surprise; however, because 18.9% of American pregnancies ended in abortion that year. While global views on abortion change almost daily, it is still the only accepted form of murder legalized throughout the world. Approximately 75% of the world lives in an area where there is little legal guidance, regarding rules or regulations pertaining to abortion. While it seems that there are few advocates for the rights of unborn children, that statement is far from the truth. Most religions view abortion as an immoral action, resulting in many million religious people in protest to abortion. With the effects that religion and human rights movements create, leaves this world divided into two. Those who are for abortion, are known as being pro choice, and those who are against it are pro life. Even though many people may be able to justify the act of abortion, some cannot find it within them to deny the most basic human right of living, to anyone, especially the unborn. …show more content…
The highest abortion rates take place in eastern european countries such as Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, and Ukraine where as the countries with the lowest abortion rates (due to strict laws or regulations regarding abortions) are in Zambia, India, South Africa, Bangladesh, and Spain. While some countries such as El Salvador, Malta, the Vatican, Chile, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua refuse to provide a woman with an abortion even if it means saving the mother's life, other countries, those that are more advanced in like Albania, Bulgaria, Estonia, and Lithuania, provide no laws or regulations on