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You just found out your pregnant without ever intending to be. It's either the best news in the world OR the precursor to one of the hardest decisions you'll ever have to make. Abortion is the most common type of surgery performed on women aged 17-25. 80,000 terminations are carried out each year in Australia. Most terminations are straightforward, clinically speaking but emotionally and socially having an abortion is a long way from undergoing laser surgery …

…up for him/her and defend him/her. Biologically at no stage can we subscribe to the view that the foetus is a mere appendage of the mother. Genetically, mother and baby are separate individuals from conception. To carry out an abortion the doctor makes an assault upon the living baby inside the mother's womb. Clearly the represents a most brutal attack upon the most basic of human rights- the right to life its self.