The Issue Of Abortion: Murder In The First Degree

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Abortion: Murder in the First Degree Abortion: Induced termination of a pregnancy with destruction of the embryo or fetus; Murder: The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life. Abortion is justified by many in cases where the the mother was a victim of rape or incest. But, out of one thousand women having an abortion, just three claimed the reason of rape and none claimed incest. Four hundred and eighty physicians signed a public declaration stating that “...there is never a situation in the law or in the ethical practice of medicine where a preborn