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In a perfect world there would be no need for abortion. In a perfect world, there would be no unwanted pregnancies. In a perfect world, there would be no threat to a womans physical or mental health if she carried a fetus to term. In a perfect world, there would be no miscarriages, children born with life threatening medical conditions, no children born into poverty, no rape, no child abuse, no single teenage mothers struggling to make ends meet and no reason not to carry a fetus to term. Unfortunately we do not live in a perfect world. Termination of unwanted pregnancies by women has been around for centuries. The need for safe and legal abortion services still persists in modern society because women still want to choose for themselves whether or not to be pregnant.

There is no need to point out the many, many reasons that a woman might choose abortion. The reasons behind this choice are so varied that it would be impossible to name every single instance that a woman might choose to have an abortion. The most common reasons such as rape, incest, endangerment of the mothers life, poverty etc. have already been played by the media on both sides of the issue. Why do women choose to have cancer treatment, plastic surgery, life saving surgery? Because it is their right to do so. That is exactly what abortion is. A medical procedure. People don't to look at in that frank and sincere light. It is an optional medical procedure for women who choose to take control of their reproductive choices.

The debate about the ethical and moral issues involved in the termination of pregnancy have only become important in the last few decades. Many people who advocate on both sides do not even know the history behind abortion. Up until the 1920's, in the United States, abortion procedures were perfectly legal and acceptable in the United States. This only changed when the medical profession of the time saw that more women of the white middle and upper classes were choosing abortion as an alternative than women of the poorer classes who could not afford the procedure, namely African American women and other minority classes of the time. The medical profession was the reason abortion legislation was introduced into politics to begin with. White doctors were afraid that the lower classes would "out breed" the middle and upper classes.

Introducing abortion legislation into congress had nothing to do with a sudden attack of conscious on behalf of the medical profession nor with a moral

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