The act of
terminating a pregnancy.
Many people like to paint abortion as evil and the eqivalent to
murdering a fully-developed, conscious human being, which is a
delusional argument.
People against abortion are usually religious conservatives that argue that life begins when sperm meets egg. They also argue that every life is predetermined by a
higher power, which is a flawed argument because it's really easy to get somebody pregnant, and it was origanally made that way to insure the survival of a species. Once the baby is born, "
pro-lifers" then don't care what happens to the child. Most "pro-lifers" don't adopt unwanted children or give money to orphanages. And ironically many "pro-lifers" support unnecessary war, the death penalty, hunting animals for fun and sport, and murdering people on religious grounds. Also a minority of "pro-lifers" take it to an extreme level and bomb abortion clinics and murder
abortion clinic doctors and employees.
I'll always maintain the opinion that only the woman carrying the child should be able to choose if she wants to carry the baby to term or not, but I don't think abortion is as bad as everyone makes it out to be. With so many kids in orphanges and a world population of 6.5 billion, and millions of starving people, abortion helps control population, since some people are too stupid to not wear a condom.
One has to ask if people just suddenly stopped having abortions, what would happen to the extra 40 million babies that would be born worldwide each year? This is something "pro-lifers" don't think about.
Whether to have or not have
an abortion should be only up to the woman carrying the
fetus to decide, not some 80 year old male politicians or the religious
fundies.