TOK issue: Abortion:

What is an abortion?

        As many of you know an abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, resulting in the death of the baby.

Pro-Choice Argument:

Women’s rights:        Many hard battles have been fought to win political and economic equality for women. These gains will not be worth much if reproductive choice is denied. To be able to choose a safe, legal abortion makes many other options possible. Otherwise an accident or a rape can end a woman's economic and personal freedom. Our society has recognized that each woman must be able to make this decision, based on her own conscience. To impose a law defining a fetus as a "person," granting it rights equal to or superior to a woman's - a thinking, feeling, conscious human being -- is arrogant and absurd. It only serves to diminish women. Nobody has the right to impose their laws on others.

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Disease:        Legal abortion not only protects women's lives, it also protects their health. For tens of thousands of women with heart disease, kidney disease, severe hypertension, sickle-cell anemia and severe diabetes, and other illnesses that can be life-threatening, the availability of legal abortion has helped avert serious medical complications that could have resulted from childbirth. Before legal abortion, such women's choices were limited to dangerous illegal abortion or dangerous childbirth.

Finance:        It is very expensive to raise a child. The parents must provide medical care, food, educational costs, living costs….many families are unable to afford such a heavy burden.

Circumstances:        If a ...

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