Abortion And Birth Control

To be pregnant under the age of 18 is a controversial issue. As minor, she may choose to give up the child. As a minor, she may choose to give the child up for adoption, keep the child, or undergo an abortion. Many are opposed to the latter option, which is the early termination of a pregnancy. The root of this issue began with the Supreme Court’s decision on the legality of an abortion in Roe v. Wade and has stemmed into a debate of pro-choice or pro-life. The decision led to the polarization of the public, since the conservatives were against abortion being a constitutionally protected right. Pregnant women should have control over their body, and yet through case law conservatives are able to pass restrictions on when the abortion procedure would be done (Henretta, J. A., Hinderaker, E., Edwards, R., & Self, R. O., 2014).

A medical abortion is available for women wanting to terminate their pregnancy between seven and nine weeks gestation. Mifepristone or RU486, more commonly known as ‘the abortion pill’, is the most commonly used drug for this method. It is up to 98 per cent effective if used within the specified time.

In the United States there are more than a billion abortions performed each year. Since the court case Roe vs Wade in 1973 more than 56 million babies have been murdered in the United States before they had the chance to take their first breath (Snyder, Michael). These statics along with many more show the huge injustice that is happening in the country I call home.

Places that you can go to get an abortion, clinics and physicians (abortion information.). There is a clinic made specifically for abortions. There also is an abortion pill you can take. 3/10 women in the U.S. get an abortion by the time they are 45 years old. In most states you can ask a judge to excuse you from the requirements your state may have against abortions. There has been 0.5% of women experience a complication, risk of death when getting an abortion ( state facts about abortions.). Also there has been more than half of the abortions that were surgically performed and less than 25% were chemically made. The chemical pill could not only hurt the child but you as well. Say you're 15 and you get pregnant and you go buy the pill,

Trimester woman can have surgical or medical abortion. The medical abortion can accord in the first nine weeks of pregnancy. Surgical abortion can accord 1 to 16 weeks of pregnancy. During the 16th week

Jacek, I know I won 't change your stance on abortion, just as you could never convince me I ought to submit my body to the government and let them decide what I can and cannot do. But I do hope you can recognise why so many women are left to choose abortion as a form of birth control-- something that, I agree, and they agree, is abhorrent.

The struggle for women has always been rough. For centuries women weren’t allowed to vote, hold public office, act, or even voice their opinion in church. As women we’re divided on issues that obtain to our own bodies, like abortion and birth control. Why is the topic of women such a controversial subject yet, half the population is female.

On March 2, 1873, the Comstock Act was passed which “forbade the sending through the mails of any drug or medicine or any article whatever for the prevention of conception” (Case Western University, 2010). Although this act did not focus on fertility, it remained as a statute for birth control. Birth control and abortion were both considered obscenities (Case Western University, 2010). The Comstock Laws declared family planning and contraception illegal and obscene (Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 2014).

I recently spoke with the doctor who delivered me into this world nearly eighteen years ago. He 's been a friend of the family years, even before I was born. Now retired, he had delivered newborns for over thirty years. I recently asked him what the ratio was between older and younger women giving birth these days. He replied, “More older women than you 'd think... every once in a while, you might see some poor 16 year old girl having a rough time, but usually 20 to 30 year old women with an occasional 40 year old having another kid.” That was the answer I was expecting. Between 1970 and 1986 the women in the United States 30 to 39 years of age having their first child doubled, and the number of women 40 to 44 years old having their

vary by location but the main services include “Abortion; Birth Control; Emergency Contraception (Morning After Pill); General Health Care; HIV Testing; LGBT Services; Men’s Health Care; Pregnancy Testing & Services; STD Testing Treatment & Vaccines; Women’s Health Care.” Of these services that clinics perform 41% is STI and STD treatment, 34% is contraception, 10% is cancer screening and prevention, 11% is classified as other Women’s Health Care services, 3% is abortion services and 1% is other services (Parenthood, 2015). Some clinics may offer in house abortion while others will only offer referral services depending on location. As they cannot allocate government funds to abortion, the client will usually have to pay the clinic up to 1,500$ for the procedure. Although PP’s main goal is reproductive health and family planning, these clinics are equipped for many other general health care services such as vaccination and blood cholesterol checking. Both paid medical and non-medical employees, as well as volunteers who perform an array of jobs usually staff clinics. For example, clinics that are often berated by groups of protestors will often employ volunteer escorts to assist the patient entering the building to make them feel safer. According to PP (2015), these US clinics service 2.8 million patients in 4.6 million clinical visits each year.

“There are nearly 1.2 million abortions performed in the United States each year” (Operation Rescue, 2014). That was 1.2 million innocent lives that were ended before they even had a chance to begin. Abortion has been legal for decades now, and it is time to put a stop to all the murdering of unborn children. This senseless killing of an unborn child needs to be recognized for what it truly is, and that is legalized murder. Abortions should be made illegal in the United States because it is taking the life of an innocent person, there are other options out there and lastly abortions are not only harming the unborn child but also cause harm to the mother.

For a long period of time and even until now, contraception and abortion represent controversial topics in the context of Islam. In fact, some people support contraception and abortion because of freedom of choice while others maintain the opinion that they are at odds with God’s willingness for reproduction and bringing new lives. However, in his book, Sex and Society in Islam, Basim Musallam argues and supports the claim that Islam permitted contraception, in particular the practice of coitus interruptus and abortion to a certain extent. Indeed, he gathers several scholars and jurists’ opinions as well as biological evidence to show that Islam did not oppose the practice of coitus interruptus and that God’s power was not defied in

Abortion, to those who approve of this method, call it a “choice”. But do we really have the right to determine who lives and who dies? Let alone babies who haven’t been given a chance or even a say in the decision. Is it really a choice we have the authority to make? From 1970 to 2013, there have been almost 52 million abortions. 52 million futures taken away. 52 million hearts broken. 52 million lives that were never given the chance to live. Abortion was illegal before 1973 and still should be illegal today. Some say it is even selfish of the person to get an abortion. Mother Teresa once said “It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” It can tear families apart just like how they tear the fetus

To begin with, one of the biggest dilemmas today is about abortion and whether or not women should have one, rates have been getting lower throughout the years due to the help of birth control. Since the year of 1975 to now “the number of abortions in the United States dropped under one million (958,700 in 2013 and 926,200 in 2014” (Jones, Jerman). It is still continuing to decrease now, from the age between 15-44 the Guttmacher Institute recorded “the lowest rate ever” (Guttmacher Institute) which is a “14% decline from 2011” (Guttmacher Institute). People think birth control has to do with these drops since it is one of the biggest factors to prevent it from happening in the first place. There are laws that are trying to prohibit abortion yet abortion is not even a problem since it just keeps getting lower and lower throughout the years “the US has reached a lower level in 2014 than in any other since the procedure first became legal” (Redden). Most of the women to get these abortions however are around their 20s “aged 20-24 obtained 34% of all abortions” (Guttmacher Institute). As a lot of people may know the republican party is not a fan of birth control so if they were to find out that it had been one of the main factors they would go on a rampage but there is no way of telling what they are due too, it is possible for it to be due to the drives or birth control depending on the person of course. I would want these young women at the age of 16 to be allowed access to

In P. Gray, “Abortion, Infanticide, and the Social Rhetoric of the Apocalypse of Peter,” portrays the story of unborn infants punishing their parents by striking them with bolts of lighting (Gray, 319). This is just one of many stories that were created during the Medieval Period in Europe depicting the act of abortion in a negative way. A majority of these stories surround the idea of God and what is “morally right” in the Christian religious society. Therefore, most scholars analyze these short stories from a religious point of view, and how these were an advantage to the Christian church in the means of declining the act of abortion. However, the debate on why these stories of anti-abortion were created, lack in analyzing why these stories would be created from a non-religious point of view. Is is possible that these stories reveal other social concerns at the time? Therefore, how did non-religious aspects impact the act of abortion during 1200 to 1300’s Medieval Period in Europe?