Word: legalizes
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...women react to unwanted pregnancy is the most crucial-and least acknowledged-issue in the current debate over U. S. abortion laws. Each year, an estimated 25 million legal abortions occur throughout the world (v. roughly 120 million live births). The fact is that women have always practiced abortion, defying all laws or taboos against it, including the death penalty, which still exists in Pakistan. The inevitable Egyptian papyrus mentions it; Aristotle urged it in general terms, and so did Plato for every woman after 40; Roman husbands were entitled to order it. Anthropologist George Devereux has catalogued dozens...
...from abortions, which are better recorded, the annual toll is probably about 1,000. No one can accurately add up the number of U. S. women who go to Puerto Rico, Japan, and other places where abortions are easily, if expensively, obtained. The firmest figure is the number of legal abortions (10,000 a year) performed in hospitals-and they are decreasing. In the early 1940s, one pregnancy in 150 was aborted to save women with such diseases as di abetes, tuberculosis and hypertension. Now medical advances have helped to cut the ratio...
...living soul until its birth. The National Council of Churches has approved hospital abortions "when the health or life of the mother is at stake," and many clergymen broadly define health to mean social as well as physical wellbeing. Last month the nation's Episcopal bishops approved limited legal abortion "with proper safeguards against abuse." The assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association has decried abortion laws as "an affront to human life and dignity...
...Legal Maze...
...womb (about five months); a miscarriage before 20 weeks still generally requires no death certificate or interment. But starting in 1860, many states outlawed abortion before as well as after quickening. New Hampshire, for example, bans hospital abortion before quickening, even to save a dying woman. The legal maze is extraordinary. In 17 states, unjustified abortion is a felony that carries sentences ranging up to 21 years. In some states, the woman herself can be charged (but seldom is) for cooperating in the abortion...