Abortion Social Issue

Away from politicians, abortion is also seen as wrong in the eyes of religious practitioners for beliefs that a child in the womb should as well have the rights to live. According to Guttmacher institute only thirty-nine states in the United States require a licensed physician to perform an abortion while forty-six states have the right to refuse to do an abortion. Also many laws affect minors a well as thirty-seven states require some type of parental notification. Also when looking at who is generally getting these abortions, women in their twenties are account for more than half of the abortions that occur and also most women that are receiving these abortions are single women. Also taking a look at the financial situation of many of the women getting an abortion forty-two percent of women are living below the poverty threshold. There are also many contraceptives to prevent one from having to have an abortion such as birth control pills, condoms, and other contraceptives. However when all else fails abortion has held strong for women in America when they are not ready to provide for a child or cannot. These statistics show how important keeping abortion legal truly is in the world.

According to Lisa M. Brown, a thoracic surgeon, 1.2 million abortions are performed each year in the United States, meaning 1.2 million children are killed yearly (1). “…More than half of the six million pregnancies occurring each year in the United States are considered unplanned by the women who are pregnant. Of these unplanned pregnancies, about half end in abortion,” she wrote. Imagine the impact of this on America’s potential population. Economist John D. Mueller wrote about just this in an article on the official website of the Ethics and Public Policy Center:

If abortion were used as a primary method of birth control, a typical woman would have two to three pregnancies per year, that’s thirty or more during her lifetime (Guttmacher 1).

Around 44 million abortions occur each year in the world, with a little under half done unsafely. Abortion rates have changed little between 2003 and 2008,, 40% of the world 's women had access to legal abortions without limits as to reason. However, there are limits on how late in pregnancy abortion is

According to the website http://womenissues.about.com/cs/abortionstats/a/aaabortionstats.htm there are approximately 126,000 abortions conducted each day throughout the world. This website includes the abortion statistics of the world and breaks the data down to the demographics of the United States. It also discusses the decisions to have an abortion and the use of contraceptives in the United States. This was an informative website and included detailed statistics conducted by the Alan Guttmacher Institute. According to the website http://www.bls.gov/cps in 2000, gon average there were roughly 135 million employed and 6 million unemployed people in the labor force in the United States.h (p. 3) The websites definition of

On January 22, 1973 Roe vs Wade was passed, which was a Supreme Court case, that allows women to have the right to have an abortion. When Roe vs Wade zpassed there were 1000 abortions that day. According to this article “Abortions in America” there were 1.06 million abortions performed in 2011 so that was 13.9 per 1000 women with a baby. Also according to this article “Abortions in America” on 2008 there were 1.21 abortions which was 19.4 per 1000 woman. The past few years abortions have been reducing, however there are still people trying to eliminate Roe vs Wade.

Every second that passes 2 lives are lost. Last year an estimated 22,700,000 unborn babies and 47,000 women died during an abortion.

Different sources give different numbers. While the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports 664,435 abortions in 2013, a report by the Guttmacher Institute states that in 2013, abortion rates fell below 1 million for the first time since the mid-1990’s. This conflicts with CDC’s numbers that shows the abortion rate has been below 1 million every year since 1998. Who do you believe? The figures are obviously skewed depending on which side of the issue is supported. One thing they all agree on however, is that the number of abortions in America are declining making it seem like people are becoming more pro-life and not wishing to give up their

Researcher say there’s at least 3,000 a day in the United State, and about 125,000 in the whole world. Twenty-two percent of all pregnancies in the U.S. end in abortion. Nearly half the pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended and four in ten of these are terminated by abortion. One woman dies every seven minutes from an abortion. Women that are between the ages of 20-25 have more abortion then teenagers, which you would think teenager would have more. This is horrible how many abortion happen in the U.S. let alone the world! Those statistics are saying that we could have had 125,000 more amazing children on this earth, one of them could have been the next great thing, but you're never gonna know because you killed you own baby. The only people that should get the choice of abortion

this year(Number of Abortions). Assuming the abortion rate remains constant for the rest of this year, there will be approximately 1,093,000 abortions this year, which is about 73% of the 1980s level: a 3-6% spike, similar to the spike in 1990. Since nearly a third of daughters of single mothers have teenage pregnancies, as compared to just 1 out of 20 from dual parent households, preventing children in those types of situations from being born prevents unwanted grandchildren from ever being conceive, further decreasing the abortion rate(Wilcox).

In 2008, 1.21 million abortions were performed, a decrease from 1.31 million in 2000; however, between 2005 and 2008, the long-term decline in abortions stalled. From 1973 through 2008, nearly 50 million legal abortions were performed in the U.S.

US New and World Report state that 43 percent of American women will have an abortion in their lifetime. In America abortion is as common as divorce and three times more common than breast cancer. Twice as many women get abortions as complete college degrees. There are approximately 1.4 million abortions performed each year in the United States with 89 percent of these prior to the twelfth week of gestation (Waldman, Ackermann and Rubin). Of the abortions performed 44 percent of the women will have had previous abortions and 82% are unmarried or separated (Cummings).

January 22, 1973 is when abortion was legalized in the United States. That boosted the amount of abortions, over 56 million children have been killed. That is more than the population of Spain. That is an equivalent of 155 babies killed per hour, approximately one every twenty-four seconds. In America alone 21,500,000 abortions have occurred in the last 30 years. (Abort73,..Com)

Abortions have become popular to the industry. About 43% of American women will have one or occasionally more than one abortions during their lifetime. Women's centers and hospitals perform more than a million abortions per year. Most abortions are done on women under the age of 25. Majority of abortions are done for teenagers. Abortions are obviously in great demand.

About 1.2 million abortions are performed every single year in the United States. Worldwide, anywhere from 20-30 million abortions are performed legally where another 10-20 million are performed illegally (“Abortion”). Is any of this news not heart wrenching for you? Abortions should not be happening anywhere in the world, there are so many ways to prevent unwanted pregnancies from ever happening.