Minnesota Couple set up an abortion website

November 19th, 2010 - 8:21 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt  

Minnesota, Nov 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A couple have taken the unusual step of allowing Internet users to decide whether they should have an abortion of not. The husband and wife who are both IT professionals have set up a website to collect opinion of visitors on whether they should keep the pregnancy or not.

The pair, Pete and Alisha Arnold, regularly uploads scanned images of the fetus on the website and invites visitors to offer their opinion on whether they should keep the pregnancy or concentrate on their full-time careers. You could let your opinion count at the website which is www.birthornot.com. They claim that their final decision will be based on the outcome of the poll.

Alisha, 30 is currently into her 17th week in the pregnancy and according to the abortion law that exists in their state, they have until the 20 week to come up with the decision. As a result, the couple says that visitors will not be able to cast their votes after the 7th of December this year. Pete who is also 30 years is carefully monitoring the outcome of the poll. The current poll stands at 54 percent in favor of abortion with the 46 percent saying they should keep the pregnancy.

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