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Abortion By: Meee Almost half of American women have terminated at least one pregnancy, and millions more Americans of both sexes have helped them, as partners, parents, health-care workers, counselors, friends. Collectively, it would seem, Americans have quite a bit of knowledge and experience of abortion. Yet the debate over legal abortion is curiously abstract: we might be discussing brain transplants. Farfetched analogies abound: abortion is like the Holocaust, or slavery; denial of abortion is …

…nsulting anyone in the group that it impacts. This graphic depicts the abortion debate as two hands tugging at a rag doll-- suggesting that the debate is about an "unborn child" rather than about women's rights http://www.fair.org/extra/best-of-extra/abortion-coverage.html Bibliography http://www.womanswire.com/backtalk/roewade.html http://www.abortionclinics.org/nebraska.htm http://www.womanswire.com/backtalk/roewade.html http://www.fair.org/extra/best-of-extra/abortion-coverage.html Word Count: 2357