"Each year, one million American teenagers become pregnant. Seventy-eight percent of these pregnancies are unintended. Out of the teenagers who become pregnant thirty-five percent choose to have an abortion rather than bear the child" (Dudley 1). Teen pregnancies have been a growing epidemic in the United States. This problem has made our increasing abortion rate skyrocket to the millions. The decision of making abortion illegal is effecting everyone across the nation especially teenagers, women with serious health conditions and victims of rape.
South Dakota voters said, "abortion should only be legal to women who are risking their lives to give birth to their child" (Hurst 1), but this was not the case the entire time. The first time that this law was passed fifty-six percent of the voters rejected the ban. It took seven thousand -five hundred lawn signs persuading voters to change their mind to a strict abortion law. Abortion has eroded in the recent years, simply because no......

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Title: Abortion
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