Abortion or not abortion, that is the question.

In 2003, worldwide, there was 42 million abortion. On the national level, more than 44,000,000 babies have died to abortion since 1973. North Carolina makes up 2.2 to 2.3 percent of that. On average 71 abortions per day were performed on North Carolina residents in 2002. The highest abortion rate (which is the number of induced abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age) in 2002 occurred to women ages 20-24. The abortion fraction (which is the number of induced abortions per 1,000 reported pregnancies) was highest among women ages 15-19.

Worldwide there are arguments on if abortions should be legal or not. Abortion should not be legalized because it is the same as murdering a person. Some people believe that it is just a baby its not born or developed yet. The truth is that most of the people who get abortions are a couple weeks along in the pregnancy, which means that that baby that they are getting taken out of them is at least 12 weeks old or more.

There are side effects of abortion. Some of them are abdominal pain and cramping, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and spotting and bleeding. More serious side effects are heavy or persistent bleeding, infection or sepsis, damage to the cervix, scarring of the uterine lining, perforation of the uterus, damage to other organs, and even death.

There are many different ways to have an abortion. Some ways are spontaneous abortion which is a miscarriage, induced abortion which is a regular abortion, medical which is pharmaceutical drugs, surgical which is when they surgically remove the baby, and abortifacient(its a pill).

What the world is trying to say is that abortion are wrong. We understand when rapped people and sexually abused people need abortions but, it is different when you are killing a baby for your own selfish reasons.