• Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage...
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    Abortion is a divisive issue in the United States. The issue of abortion is prevalent in American politics and culture wars, though a majority of Americans...
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    Abortion laws vary widely among countries and territories, and have changed over time. Such laws range from abortion being freely available on request...
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    The legality of abortion in the United States and the various restrictions imposed on the procedure vary significantly depending on the laws of each state...
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  • medical abortion, also known as medication abortion or non-surgical abortion, occurs when drugs (medication) are used to bring about an abortion. Medical...
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    abortion—the deliberate termination of a pregnancy—has been known since ancient times. Various methods have been used to perform or attempt abortion,...
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    Abortion-rights movements, also self-styled as pro-choice movements, advocate for the right to have legal access to induced abortion services including...
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    Abortion in the United Kingdom is de facto available under the terms of the Abortion Act 1967 in Great Britain and the Abortion (Northern Ireland) (No...
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    An unsafe abortion is a life-threatening procedure. It includes self-induced abortions, abortions in unhygienic conditions, and abortions performed by...
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    Anti-abortion movements, also self-styled as pro-life movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its...
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  • The abortion debate is a longstanding, ongoing controversy that touches on the moral, legal, medical, and religious aspects of induced abortion. In English-speaking...
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    Christianity and abortion have a long and complex history. There is no direct reference to abortion in the Bible, nor any explicit condemnation of abortion. The lack...
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    Abortion in Canada is legal throughout pregnancy and is publicly funded as a medical procedure under the combined effects of the federal Canada Health...
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  • Muslim views on abortion are shaped by Hadith (the words, actions, and the silent approval of the Islamic prophet Muhammad as transmitted through chains...
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  • Abortion in Australia is legal. There are no federal abortion laws, and full decriminalisation of the procedure has been enacted in all jurisdictions...
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  • Abortion in Poland is illegal except in cases where the pregnancy is a result of a criminal act or when the woman's life or health is in danger. The last...
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    anti-abortion movement (also called the pro-life movement or right-to-life movement) is a movement in the United States that opposes induced abortion and...
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  • Abortion has been legal in India under various circumstances with the introduction of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, 1971. The Medical...
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    Sex-selective abortion is the practice of terminating a pregnancy based upon the predicted sex of the infant. The selective abortion of female fetuses...
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  • Abortion in Germany is decriminalized on demand during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy upon condition of mandatory counseling. The same goes later in pregnancy...
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  • Abortion is illegal in the Philippines. The constitutional provision that "[The State] shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the...
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  • Catholic Church promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1992 oppose all forms of abortion procedures whose direct purpose is to destroy a zygote, blastocyst, embryo...
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    A self-induced abortion (also called a self-managed abortion, or sometimes a self-induced miscarriage) is an abortion performed by the pregnant woman herself...
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  • Roe v. Wade (category United States abortion case law)
    generally protected a right to have an abortion. The decision struck down many abortion laws, and caused an ongoing abortion debate in the United States about...
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  • "A Defense of Abortion" is a moral philosophy essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1971. Granting for the sake...
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  • regularly report abortion statistics in the United States. They use different methodologies, so they report somewhat different abortion rates, but they...
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  • Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (category Right to abortion under the United States Constitution)
    that the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion. The court's decision overruled both Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood...
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  • pregnancy, also referred to as third trimester abortion, describes the termination of pregnancy by induced abortion during a late stage of gestation. In this...
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    Abortion in Europe varies considerably between countries and territories due to differing national laws and policies on its legality, availability of the...
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  • This list contains songs which have lyrics that refer to abortion in some manner. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y...
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