The Abortion Debate

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The Abortion Debate

• Abortion-rights supporters march in D.C.

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The Argument

• Should abortion still be legal
• President Bush and foreign policies hurt women
• Supreme Court favor for Roe V. Wade could be lost
  if Bush fills vacancies.

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Stars Protest

• Whoopi Goldberg, Kathleen Turner, Cybill
  Shepherd, and Ted Turner
• Senator Hillary Clinton of New York spoke saying,
  This administration is filled with people . . .
  who consider Roe v. Wade the worst abomination of
  constitutional law in our history.

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Babies

• Baby pictures most people think of are the cute
  cuddly, smiling babies, like these ones.
• They forget about the baby in the womb.

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Are you a murderer?

• How could anyone want to kill something that
  turns out to look like this?
• Some people dont see abortion as murder
• Some women gathered at the march dressed in
  black, in opposition of abortion.

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Pro- Choice Arguments

• The fetus is not a human being until it is out of
  the mothers body.
• . . . We cannot let them take over our bodies,
  our health care and our lives. states Carole
  Mehlman a pro-choice activist since abortion was
  legalized.

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WHY?

• Largest gathering in favor since 92
• 100 thousand people attended.
• Rights to their reproductive freedoms taken away
• ACLU right to an abortion not only issue at
  stake
• Fighting for birth control, sex ed., and better
  health care.

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Quotes

• . . . Ultimate intrustion by government to tell
  a woman when she can have children . . . -Linda
  Carter
• This is a year that is most critical . . . Is
  something that is of incredible importance to
  us. -Kate Michelman
• We believe its important to be that broad-based
  and diverse because the threats to reproductive
  rights are that broad-based and diverse. -Gloria
  Feldt

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BAN

• Bush has signed a ban on partial-birth abortion
• The first federal law to endow a fetus with legal
  rights distinct from the pregnant woman

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Summary

• Pro-choice The fetus is not human.

Pro-Life Abortion is murdering a baby.