Since 1973, when the Supreme Court made their decision to legalize abortion because of the Roe v. Wade case, about one out of three pregnancies end in abortion. This means that 1.2 million abortions are performed in the United States each year (Guttmacher). Recently, abortion has been a huge moral dilemma. It is currently one of the most controversial issues, stirring heated legal, political, and ethical debates. The modern debate over abortion is a conflict of competing moral ideas and of fundamental human rights to life and control of one's own body. Trying to come to some sort of a compromise has proven that you cannot please all the people on each side of the debate, so the only solution would be to meet somewhere in the middle where those who are pro-life and pro-choice can agree on the terms where abortion should be justified. Both sides of this debate are very passionate about their opinions making it difficult to reach a compromise. Many of those who are pro-choice insist that a woman's right to abortion should never be restricted while those who are pro-life argue that a fetus has a right to life that is being denied if a pregnancy is terminated. Some proposed solutions have been only allowing abortions for "hard" cases but not for the "soft" cases such as financial hardship, inconvenience, possible birth defects, or failure of birth control. The other proposed compromise would be to allow abortions, but only until a given stage of pregnancy, which is already in place now but pro-lifers argue it should be much earlier than the medically accepted point of viability.
             With there being over a dozen contraception options available, unwanted pregnancies should be avoidable. Today an average of 1.2 million babies are aborted annually and hard cases abortions only account for 7 percent of those of those terminated pregnancies (Guttmacher). Abortions are inhumane, immoral, and can have a lifelong effect on a woman both physically an...