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Abortions; Webster's dictionary defines it as "the termination of pregnancy". Canada is one of the few countries that allow legalized abortions. Why would Canada do such a thing? Isn't it sort of like murder? So 1 group, from the HIF 2O0 class decided to go into further analysis about this matter using both secondary and primary research. They surveyed 20 grade 12 students, 10 being males and 10 being females, at Harold M. Brathwaite Secondary School on their opinions of abortions. They wished to figure out mainly how students from graduating classes from high school, or in other words how grade 12 students from both genders at Harold M. Brathwaite viewed abortions. Most of the student completed the survey seriously and answer all the questions having valid points for both pros and cons when dealing with abortions. Furthermore they took notes on a couple of site dealing with abortions and finding out many important statistics. It amazing what can be determined after analyzing the 2 sets of data.
Doing secondary research from websites enhanced the group's knowledge on abortions and the statistics of abortions. Some of the facts that we found out were that about 20 000 teens have abortions each year, between the ages of 16 to 19, 96% of males have engaged in sexual intercourse at least once and 68% being females. Another fact that was learned was that the number of teens that have abortions increased from 26% in 1974 to 45% in 1994. Also, about 105 000 abortions are performed each year. Each Site gave us insight on many thinks dealing with abortions. They generally talked about what abortions include of and what parents also think about their teenage sons and/or daughters having abortions. One of the sites weren't too helpful because the main focus was about what parents thought about teenage children having abortions, which was not the focus of the project. An essay was also used, written by a 19-year-old teenager who talked about their...

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