A pro-choice person would feel that the decision to abort a pregnancy is that of the mothers and the state should have no right to interfere. A pro- life person would hold that from the moment of conception, that the embryo or fetus is alive. This life imposes on us a moral obligation to preserve it and that abortion is the same as murder. In the United States about 1.6 million pregnancies end in abortion. Women with incomes under eleven thousand are over three times more likely to have an abortion, than women with incomes above twenty-five thousand.
Unmarried women are four to five times more likely to abort than married.
In the past years the abortion rate has doubled among 18 and 19 year olds. Recently the U.S. rate has dropped 6 percent overall but the rate of abortion among girls younger than 15 has jumped up to18 percent and the rate among minorities climbed from 186 per 1,000 to 189 per 1,000. A tube is simply inserted through the cervix and the contents of the uterus are vacuumed out. The most commonly used type of second trimester abortion is called dilation and evacuation. At this point the fetus has bones, bulk and can is able to move, the second trimester abortions are not as simple.