Have we the right to take life into our own hands?

Life a gift given by God that can be so easily taken away. But its only God who can do this, only he who has created life can take it away. To about a child is to stop a beating heart.............

One in four women (26%) obtaining abortions are teens

Results of a 1994-1995 national survey of 9,985 abortion patients reveal that women who live with a partner outside marriage or have no religious identification are 3.54.0 times as likely as women in the general population to have an abortion. Nonwhites, women aged 1824, Hispanics, separated and never-married women, and those who have an annual income of less than $15,000 or who are enrolled in Medicaid are 1.62.2 times as likely to do so; residents of metropolitan counties have a slightly elevated likelihood of abortion. Source: "Abortion Patients in 1994-1995: Characteristics and Contraceptive Use," by Stanley K. Henshaw and Kathryn Kost, Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 28, No. 4, July/August 1996.

To cause to terminate pregnancy prematurely, before the embryo or fetus is viable. b. To cause the expulsion of (an embryo or fetus) before it is viable.

Abortions are most commonly performed between the sixth and twelfth week of pregnancy, where conception occurs at week two and birth occurs at week forty. Abortions are also performed routinely up to sixteen weeks and then less often into the later months of pregnancy. Women obtain abortions for a number of reasons, usually having to do with relationship and interpersonal issues, but other concerns like health of the mother, health of the fetus, or finances may factor into the decision.

there is strong evidence that the unborn child can feel pain as early as twelve weeks. The abortion procedure is thought to be painful for the unborn child, as no anesthesia is administered to the fetus. In the case of a surgical abortion, anesthetic is usually administered to the pregnant woman.