What is abortion?
Abortion is the miscarriage of birth; the artificially induced termination of pregnancy leading to the destruction of the fetus. While abortion is officially prohibited in some societies, in many societies, including most modern societies, is recognised as a legitimate way of terminating unwanted pregnancies. In some modern societies the incidence of recorded abortion approaches that for live births. In recent years, debates about abortion have centred on the rights of mothers as well is the rights of unborn children. In this way the debate about abortion is also bound up with wider political struggles in modern societies - E.G. ideologies of the new right as was the women's movement.
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