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A 5 age paper arguing that abortion is not always wrong from the perspective of Immanuel Kant. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and a sin against God to take the life of an unborn fetus. On the other hand there are the members of the liberal persuasion who say it is
better not to bring an unwanted child into the world and, that by taking the fetus before the end of the first trimester, it is legally not really a person
yet. Whos right or wrong, we will probably never know; all we can do is follow our own convictions. Abortion is
not anything new. It has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years. There are historical narratives from the Middle Ages which describe women inducing their own abortions in
manners that would make most of us sick today - stories of pushing sharp objects up inside themselves in order to break their water and thereby induce premature labor.
Unfortunately, that didnt always work and the end result could be a child that was deformed or severely retarded - making the womans plight much worse than it started out
to be. In our own country, abortion has been around as long as the United States has. During the early part of
the nineteenth century, abortion was seen as the only recourse for women who had become pregnant due to being lured into the bed of some conniving scoundrel, or who had
fallen into an adulterous affair. Under the common law of the colonies, which still continued to be observed into the 1800s, the practice was still tolerated, with the only stipulation
being that the pregnancy had to be terminated before "quickening," or the midpoint of gestation. (Abortion, PG). As America moved toward the
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