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This 3 page paper argues against legalized abortion. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and work toward a compromise, it seems to inspire violent anger on both sides so that no common ground is ever reached. This paper argues against abortion. Discussion Forsythe argues
that the pro-abortion forces have used four "myths" to convince the American people of its necessity. He lists them and then rebuts them. He believes that it is these beliefs
and others like them that have convinced Americans that abortion is a "necessary evil" (Forsythe). The first myth is that anywhere from one to two million illegal abortions were
performed annually before the passage of Roe v. Wade (Forsythe). This is grossly exaggerated: "In fact, the annual total in the few years before abortion on demand was no more
than tens of thousands and most likely fewer" (Forsythe). He takes California, the most populous state, as an example, and notes that although it was alleged that "100,000 illegal abortions
occurred annually in the 1960s, only 5,000 abortions were performed in 1968, the first full year of legalization" (Forsythe). He is suggesting of course that if that many illegal abortions
had really been performed, the number would be much higher than 100,000 if it had been that high in the first place. The second myth is that "thousands of women
died annually" from botched abortions. No so: "In fact, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) statistics in 1972 show that 39 women died from illegal abortion and 27 died
from legal abortion" (Forsythe). The third myth is that abortion law "targeted women rather than abortionists before legalization" (Forsythe). This too is untrue, he says. In fact, the "nearly uniform
policy of the states for nearly a century before 1973 was to treat the woman as the second victim of abortion" (Forsythe). Finally, the fourth myth is that having legal
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