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| − | One of the sharpest divisions in [[United States]] politics is over taxpayer-funded [[abortion]], and [[abortion]] in general.
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| − | By a 7-2 vote the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] legalized [[abortion]] on demand in 1973 throughout the [[United States]], which invalidated laws in virtually every state prohibiting or limiting [[abortion]].
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| − | The highly controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision stated that prohibiting abortion violated a woman's constitutional rights, and that the right to life granted in the constitution was not originally intended to apply to an unborn child.
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| − | Some have pointed to the incongruity of US federal law which deems that the fertilized eggs of any of over 800 species of native birds warrant federal-government protection under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 while the fertilized egg of a human being is regarded as a disposable mass of tissue. <ref>http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?archive=true&article=32568&paper=62&cat=110</ref>
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| − | [[category:politics]][[category:Abortion]]
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