Abortion Up For Debate

Abortion and life-rights have always been a hot topic for debate on the public agenda, new advances in technology seem to fuel the fire. With safer procedures, the topic of abortion seems to reach its way to the top of the list. The supreme court is trying as hard as ever to ban the process entirely. In 2003 the Partial-Birth Abortion Act was enacted which sought to ban a late abortion ("intact dilation and evacuation"). Now the Roe v. Wade decision is being fought over, if it is overturned it doesn't mean that abortion would automatically become illegal, it would just be the decision of the courts. Even though the issue is rising, reports say that the abortion rates have dropped from 1.4 million in 1990 to 854,122 in 2002. Views from the public haven't changed much since the 1970 Roe v. Wade debate, studies say that two-thirds of Americans say abortion should be legal during the first trimester, but then drops 8 percent in the third trimester. This is a hot topic that has high salience in the public eye, in the next few months there could be some big changes in the maternity department.

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