Abortions are one of the many things that everyone has an opinion on. As defined by the 2012 Merriam-Webster Dictionary, an Encyclopedia Britannica Company, an abortion is "the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus in the form of spontaneous expulsion of a human being. fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation - miscarriage, induced expulsion of a human fetus, or expulsion of a fetus by a pet, often due to infection at any time before the end of pregnancy. Abortion has always been and probably always will be a controversial topic that not everyone will agree on. Amid the controversy, two groups emerged. These groups are called pro-life and pro-choice. According to Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context, pro-life advocates assert that life begins at conception and therefore abortion at any stage of pregnancy is murder. They believe that life has value and that the life of the unborn baby has the same rights as that of the mother. Proponents of choice, for their part, assert that a woman has the right to choose what she does with her body. These pro-abortionists claim that anti-abortionists are truly against women's rights and free choice rather than against abortion. Pro-life and choice advocates differ on many of their opinions, particularly on when life begins, the effects of abortion on the mother, and the role politics and religion play in abortion. In order to fully understand any topic, a complete explanation is necessary. required. Therefore, the history of abortions and the different procedures used are no exception. Abortions have been around for thousands of years. However, in the 1800s, abortions became illegal in the United States. Due to the lack of medical training, surgical procedures and interventions such as abortions were very dangerous. As medical advances were made, women still had to rely on clandestine abortions, which usually resulted in the harm of thousands of women. Abortions remained illegal despite advances in medicine, largely because doctors did not want to share their patients with other practitioners. The American Medical Association has declared abortions wrong and dangerous. Thus, according to the National Abortion Federation, abortions were then transformed into a "doctors only" practice because they could be performed legally in order to save the woman's life...