A Woman's Right to Choose According to National Health Statistics, "43% of American women will have an abortion at some time in their life." Abortion is one of the most controversial topics in our nation today. We are constantly being surrounded with advertisements on billboards, in magazines, in newspapers, and on television with slogans such as pro-life and pro-choice. The medical definition of abortion is the end of a pregnancy before viability. There are two different …showed first 75 words of 2504 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2504 total…until birth or possibly just prior to it. Because this cannot be proved, it serves as shaky grounds for the basis of an argument. Judith Jarvis Thompson comes up with what many believe to be an applicable analogy. When examined in depth the argument only defends rape situations which have already been deemed excusable circumstances for an abortion. All things considered, the reasoning in favor of free access to abortion is inconclusive and easily disputed.