Abortion
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The human ovum (egg) is clearly alive when it enters the fallopian tubes. A women releases one about every month between puberty and menopause - a few hundred in a lifetime. The majority these are destined to die and be released from the body. Although the ovum is a form of life, there is a publ ....
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.... question behind the pro-choice/pro-life argument is: when does life become human life?. After that occurs, terminating life is a form of murder which many people believe can only be justified to prevent the death or extremely serious injury to the mother. Unfortunately, there is no consensus of when that event occurs.
Many people believe that happens at conception. That is, a just-fertilized egg is a full human being and should be protected as such. Some hold this belief because of th ....
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