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When the term abortion comes up in conversation, one of two things usually happens. Either the conversation dies and an awkward silence will follow, or someone who is adamant for either pro life or pro choice will jump in and make sure their view is noted. The abortion question is indeed a heated and controversial topic in today’s age. Janet Hadley, author of Abortion: Between Freedom and Necessity, says “many competing interests - perspectives on the self and the world, biological and psychological data, ideas about gender, moral and religious theories - all confront each other in the maze beneath the abortion question.” In taking a look at the side which supports a woman’s right to ‘choose’, one sees that this rise came about because in the