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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ProCon.org, a nonpartisan 501(c)3 nonprofit public charity dedicated to promoting critical thinking, created the new website http://abortion.procon.org to explore the core question "Should abortion be legal?"
In the Jan. 22, 1973 case Roe v. Wade the US Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 that abortion was a "fundamental right." From that date through 2005, more than 45 million legal abortions have been performed. One out of five pregnancies end in abortion, women aged 20-29 receive 55% of all abortions, and 40% of all women have an abortion by the age of 45.
People who identify themselves as "pro-life" generally believe that abortion is immoral because personhood begins at conception not birth, and, therefore, abortion kills innocent human beings. They believe it is unfair to allow abortion when an estimated two million couples (as of Jan. 2003) who cannot biologically conceive are waiting to adopt.
Some prominent "pro-life"...