Abortion Is The Ending Of A Pregnancy

     Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy before birth. An abortion results in the death of the embryo or fetus and may be either spontaneous or induced. For years, abortion has been an extremely controversial subject. The history of abortion reaches back not just decades, but centuries, and even milleniums. Today, policies regarding legal abortion in the U.S. is being debated everywhere. Many myths and misconceptions confuse this issue. A better understanding of the history of abortion in America can help provide a context for an improved policy in the future.

Abortion has been legal and commonly practiced from the time of the earliest settlers. By federal law, abortion is legal, although many states have their own individual regulations and restrictions. Various states began passing laws to make abortion illegal in the mid-to-late- 1800s for fear that they would become overpopulated with children of newly arriving immigrants (national abortion federation ).Even though abortions can hold many risks today, they were especially dangerous in the 1800s where hospitals and antiseptics were not common (national abortion federation). Hospitals were not as common back then and doctors had basic training. Doctors wanted to criminalize abortion so that untrained physicians etc. could not steal their patients.

Abortion is the way that a woman terminates her pregnancy if she and her family cannot meet the financial needs for the baby. Women also have abortions if they are a victim of rape by a stranger or even a family member. Simone Payment states, “By the mid-1800’s, it was fairly common. As many as one out of five pregnancies was ended by an abortion.”(Payment 7). The reason being that it was not a crime at that point in time. Many women went to Mexico to get abortions. During 1821, other states began the laws concerning abortion.

At every point in history and in every known society women all around the world use abortion to help control and prevent reproduction , even though it might not be legal. People in the United States have been using abortion until about 1880, because by that time most states had banned it.When abortion was illegal, the possibility of a woman to have an abortion or at least one that was safe , depended upon her economic situation, her ethnicity, and where she lived. Women that could afford to leave the country to have a proper abortion done by somewhere other than the U.S. because it was illegal or they would have to find a physician who would perform the procedure at a high price. The poor women and women of color were often unable to find a provider, they had to turn to dangerous self-abortions, such as inserting knitting needles or coat hangers into the vagina and uterus. In the United States abortion became legal in 1973 because the U.S. government thought that we have had enough advances in modern medicines to now make

For recent years, people start to deny abortion and stated it as cruel and murder. While it does involve remove fetus or embryo from the mother and kill the baby before it was born, it might not be the worst thing that can happen to the baby. Most people who chose abortion is either can’t afford to have a kid or unable to take care of them. It was one of the case, while other concern about their right as a person. Some might say the baby have right to live, while others believe the mother have right for herself to do what she want to her body. The debate on abortion is not about who right, but it about the consequences of their action.

For a long time abortion has been a thing, regardless of whether we like it or not. Abortion is the ending the birth of a child that might be unwanted in the pregnancy ("What Is Abortion?" par. 1). Women who want to have abortions usually do it because the child was unwanted or unplanned (par. 2). There are two types of abortion, a medical abortion, and a surgical abortion. A medical abortion is taking a pill to end the pregnancy, and a surgical abortion is doing a procedure on a woman to remove the baby ("Abortion - What Happens - NHS Choices" par. 5). Both methods can only usually be done up to 24 weeks of pregnancy (par. 6)

Abortion is one of the most controversial topics in the United States. It is a topic that not everyone can agree on. It is also a big topic of debate in elections. Abortion is the ending of pregnancy through the removal or forcing out from the womb of a fetus or embryo before it is able to survive on its own. Abortion has been around for thousands of years. According to Findlaw there were no laws regarding abortion until the 1800’s in the United States. Feminist argue that anti-abortion legislation was a backlash against the suffrage and birth control movements and a challenge to the midwives that provided most of healthcare to woman at that time. By 1880 all states had laws criminalizing abortion except to save the life of the mother. The

Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy before birth; it causes the termination of the embryo or fetus inside the women. There are two different types of abortion, a spontaneous abortion, which is also known as a miscarriage, and an induced abortion, where the embryo or fetus is purposely removed from the women’s body. The topic of induced abortion has been widely debated for hundreds of years. The issue of abortion was argued way back in the time of the ancient Hebrews. In the United States it became illegal around the mid 1800’s and not until the 1960’s was the argument for the right to abort brought back to the table. In 1973, the Supreme Court case “Roe vs. Wade” made abortion legal. The case stated that abortion was legal in the

Abortion is an intentional termination of a pregnancy during the first twenty-eight weeks. The debate of whether or not abortion should be legalized has been a key political topic for years. Based upon a survey done by the Pew Research Center, as of September 22, 2014 “a majority of Americans (55%) express the opinion that abortion should be legal in all or most cases; four-in-ten say it should be illegal in all or most cases.”(Abortion, n.p.). Abortion should be legalized based upon the mothers’ medical circumstances, for the fact that abortion is not a threat against the mental health of patients, and to the rights of privacy and bodily integrity of females must be kept. Moreover the religious views of others should not be taken as a factor against a person’s decision for abortion.

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus. People have used the negative psychological effects of abortion as a basis to either promote or discourage abortion; making it one of the most highly debated topics for years. Many studies argue that abortion can lead to serious mental illness as people have disclosed effects ranging from depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, substance abuse, sexual dysfunction, sleep interruption, and suicidal ideation or attempts. Others claim that while abortion may lead to some negative psychological effects, they are only temporary; reporting positive outcomes for the female choosing abortion in the

Pro-life argue that choosing a family for the child, that is, putting the baby on adoption, is better than killing the baby. Pro-life encourage women to place their babies up for adoption if they feel that they are not prepared to take care for their children since they believe that abortion is the intentional killing of a human being (Should Abortion Be Legal?). While no everyone can adopt a child, adoptive parent should be financially stable, mature, dependable, have the ability to support for the child, and be flexible. Adoption is an extensive process that requires a lot of paperwork from the interested couple. The adoption procedure requires reference letters from employers and family or friends, a background check that includes the criminal

In a study on the history of abortion in Canada, Shannon Hargreaves writes, “Induced abortion, the active termination of a pregnancy before foetal viability, has a controversial, emotional, and value laden history in Canada, making it one of the most contentious topics in the history of medicine.” Today, a Canadian woman has the option of receiving an abortion is she chooses to do so. This has not always been the case. In fact, Canadian women have been entitled to their reproductive choices for less than thirty years. Since the first criminal restrictions on abortion in Canada were enacted in 1869, serious changes have been continually made to the country’s policy regarding the procedure. At that time, Canada shared a legal system with

According to 2012 Merriam Webster dictionary Abortion is the removal of an embryo or a fetus from the uterus to gain the end of pregnancy. Abortion was illegal many years in the U.S.A. It later became legal only when the females life was in danger. In 1973 abortion was legalized, due to a supreme-court ruling in the case of Roe vs Wade. Abortion was and always will be controversial and that is how there were groups formed who call themselves pro-life, and pro-choice. Pro-life members believe that life begins at conception, and pro-choice members believe that it should always and only be the mother’s choice to decide what to do with the unborn child. Not only has this procedure been around many years, it also have changed the way women talk about the option to carry out their wish to abort. Many years ago women would not consider talking about this procedure, they would rather go and have this done quiet and secretly, and face the consequences all alone. Today females are more open to the subject and discuss every aspect of the procedure.

Abortions being made illegal in the late 1880’s created a lot of “underground” abortion procedures. The abortions performed were not safe, they were expensive, and often time’s male doctors would force women to have intimate relations with them before the procedure. In the 1950s, about a million illegal abortions a year were performed in the U.S., and over a thousand of those women died each year as a result. It wasn’t until the civil rights and antiwar movements in the 1960’s that women began to fight more actively for their rights. One of these rights was the freedom to do as they wish with their bodies. By fighting for the freedom of choice, women were also fighting for a safe medical procedure that would abort their pregnancy with a lower death rate.

There are 1.1 million U.S. abortions each year. Abortion is the voluntary termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy, resulting in the death of the fetus or embryo. There are two types of groups that are either for abortion or against it. One group is called the pro-choice group and they believe that a woman should have access to any health care that she needs and that she should have control over her own body. The second group is the pro-life group and they believe that the embryo or fetus is alive and thus abortion is equivalent to murder. Abortion should be illegal in every state in the United States because of the way it has an emotional effect on people, the ending of another person’s life before they are born, and the physical pain it causes to the people having an abortion.