ABORTION: All sides of the issue Overview of abortion: An unsolvable dilemma? How often: In the United States, women choose to end about 25% of their pregnancies through abortion. 1 This number has been gradually declining since 1979. This is similar to the Canadian figure of 21%, 2 but is much lower than that of the former Soviet Union (60%) and Romania (78%) where contraceptives are in short supply. Opposing beliefs: A social consensus exists that when life becomes human life, that …showed first 75 words of 686 total…

…showed last 75 words of 686 total…abortions. About 43% of American women will have had a surgical abortion sometime during their lifetime; about the same percentage of women who use an IUD will expel a fertilized ovum every 6 months (assuming that they engage in intercourse once per week). At no time in the history of the Church have an embryo or pre-viable fetus been considered full persons to the extent of being worthy of a formal requiem mass or formal burial service.