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Abortion has been a controversial issue since the idea was first introduced. The main issue of the debate is whether a woman’s right to choose outweighs the unborn fetus’s right to live. The right for a woman to have an abortion is part of a much broader issue: the right for a woman to decide what she can and can not do with her body and not letting someone else, specifically a man, …

…stages. “Their strategy, Ralph Reed (former head of the Christian Coalition) told the New York Times, is to ban abortion one procedure at a time,”5. Telling a woman what to do with her body should not be allowed at any time of pregnancy or any time at all for that matter. It’s like saying “We’re not doctors and we’re not your family, but we’ll decide what you can and cannot do.”