Abortion: The Other Side Of The Train Track

In the news article “Abortion: Every Woman’s Rights” Sharon Smith wrote an article about women’s rights to get abortions prior to the hearing of the Planned Parenthood v. Casey court case, “which threatened to severely restrict women access to abortion” (Smith). Women wanted reproductive control over their lives and felt that they were not equal to men no matter what advances they got at work and how high their level of education was. The women’s right movement wanted women to have the choice of abortion for all women, the rich and the poor. In the US, thirty- seven states did not provide

The issue of abortion is notoriously controversial. Since the Supreme Court’s 1992 ruling in Casey v. Planned Parenthood, states have enacted different restrictions on the procedure. These restrictions vary from state to state. Nineteen states currently have laws prohibiting partial-birth abortion, and forty-one states strictly prohibit abortions except in cases of life-endangerment. One particularly incendiary area of abortion law is that of public funding. However, as of this year there are only seventeen states that cover abortion procedures through public funding. In this paper we will discuss federal abortion legislation, while describing the laws and political ideologies of the following states: Texas, California, New

For the better, since this those who have passed due to abortion-related situations have significantly decreased

Over the past few centuries state and federal laws concerning a females reproductive rights have changed dramatically. The female population has been greatly affected by many laws regarding their reproductive rights and their ability to make educated decisions about family planning. The 1973 case Roe vs. Wade set the motion to allow women to control their bodies and their decision to end a pregnancy through abortion. Prior to this case, in almost all 50 states abortions were deemed illegal.

This problem becomes more complicated when the topic of discussion is controversial. A controversy can at best be defined as a concept or idea, which produces discord among a number of people (Xu, Parks, Chu, & Zhang, 2010). Controversies therefore, describe information on which a lot of people strongly disagree creating a false ring of truth around the topic. controversies often have profound social, political and economic implications, and more and more often they feature public disagreements among scientific, technical or medical experts. Whether the confrontation occurs over the control of AIDS, about the proposed introduction of the "abortion pill," about whether vaccines causes autism, over the location of an airport, or over the implications of the "greenhouse effect," experts become involved. Disputes between experts provoke major difficulties for decision-making and policy implementation in the case of such public confrontations, which, more often than not, are vociferous, protracted, rancorous and unresolved (). Disputes between experts provoke major difficulties for decision-making and policy implementation in the case of such public confrontations, which, more often than not, are vociferous, protracted, rancorous and unresolved.

Abortion has always been a controversial topic in the United States for decades. Abortion is like taking the life of someone without their permission so it is technically “murder”. There is no such thing as an unwanted child, millions of families in the United States are always willing to adopt. On the other hand, there are circumstances where a woman can barely care and sustain herself so chances are that she will not be able to take care of her child. Or when a rape occurs, having an abortion is not as bad as when a woman has sex without protection and knows she has the chance to get pregnant.

Although abortion was decriminalized in 1973, the fight for abortion rights did not end with Roe v. Wade. Just in the past three years, there have been systematic restrictions on abortion rights sweeping the country sate by state. In 2013, 22 states enacted 70 antiabortion measures, including pre-viability abortion bans, unnecessary doctor and clinic procedures, limits on medicated abortion, and bans on insurance coverage of abortion In 2011, 92 abortion restrictions were enacted, an in 2012, that number was 43. More abortion restrictions have been passed in the last three years than in the previous decade combined (Guttmacher Institute, 2014). These facts prove even in an increasingly progressive society, the antiabortion movement is winning many battles, as the rights of women across the country are continually threatened.

The concept of law and morality have always been two concepts of society that contradict each other. The laws we as a society abide by were never perfect nor will it ever be. There is no society in which a Utopian nation exists however, trying to make just laws that are fair to everyone is feasible. When laws are made, many things are taken in consideration and that includes the negatives and positive aspects of it. Slavery for example, during the 18th century was legal and right. This made the society back then question the conscious of man that was why it was abolished. When laws are made constitutional, legislators should consider both positive and negative factors as well as aspects from morality and human consciousness. The great Henry Thoreau questioned “Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then?” Society has been much oriented on obeying the law and not questioning these laws for the sake of consciousness. Laws such

The social issue I am exploring is abortion. The two questions I am researching are: “Please tell me whether or not you think it should be possible for a pregnant woman to obtain legal abortion if there is a strong chance of a serious defect in the baby” and “Please tell me whether or not you think it should be possible for a pregnant woman to obtain legal abortion if the woman wants to for any reason.” This social issue is important because it can be viewed from a legal, moral, religious, and social standpoint. It also has only become a large part of our society, and therefore a largely debated issue, in the last half century. It also is sociologically important because it is a debate over the ideal our country was formed on: freedom.

Legalized abortion is a very tendentious and often a volatile issue that is talked about around the globe. Abortion has been legalized in the Unites States since 1973, after a lawsuit took place. From the year 1973 an estimate of almost four million children had been aborted until 1998. Many specialists along the way estimated an abundant estimate of more than nine million abortions until 2005, allowing a massive total of more than forty million.

An issue in contemporary culture issue abortion is an ongoing issue today and has been for as long as we can remember. Citizens debate on this issue constantly, this topic may be the headline of the month and then it sort-of goes into the shadows and then you think okay, now everyone is in agreement with it. Until there it is again headlining the news again and for the fact of the matter this issue will probably never go away because there will always be some sort of disagreement.

The dichotomy of the caretaker and the receiver is personified by the relationship between the mother and her child. The mother is the sole provider for the health of the unborn for nine months and the child has no sentience in which to exercise any desires. This places the child in a role that is virtually parasitic and the mother in a situation that obligates her to undergo physiological and psychological turmoil. Then is the mother then obligated to care for the organism that is growing within her or is she allowed the decision to dispose of the fetus within her? Initially it would seem that the mother is certainly obligated to care for the child as it was a byproduct from her actions and it is a life. Yet, the fetus is unable of exercising any degree of care toward the mother. Should the mother care for an organism that cannot exercise any care for her and is totally helpless throughout the initial years of its life? Care ethics dictates that she has an

Have you ever heard of the word abortion at all? Abortion is a very diverse topic in our world today, especially in the United States. Many people do not know what abortion really means. Abortion is when a woman purposely terminates, or kills, her pregnancy, most often during the first 28 weeks after conception (Google). While some some people know this, still others are not aware of why someone would choose to have an abortion. Many people may think rape is the highest cause women have abortions. But, what they do not know, is less than 1% of women have an abortion after being raped (Abortions in America). The two major reasons women have abortions are because of poor finances and responsibility. Both reasons are 21% of all the explanations women give when they are having an abortion (Abortions in America). The other causes include:her life would change too much, which is 16%; she is unmarried, 12%; too young or immature, 11%; she has all she wants, 8%; or the baby has potential health problems (Abortions in America). This shows that when legalizing abortion, all these women that are having abortions because of those reasons, will have access to professionally-performed abortion centers and will reduce the risk of death from unsafe, illegal abortions (Abortion).

People have in mind that abortion are killing children, that haven’t even born yet for pointless reasons. Well they are wrong, abortions are a women's rights that should not be limited by government-related religion authority, with strong feeling.

The issue of abortion is very ambiguous. It doesn't just have a demographic meaning, but it has both political and social significance, and the most important are has an ethical aspect to it. Despite that this issue is “as old as Earth” it’s still very accurate nowadays and the topic of many debates. This is explained by the fact that the issue touches many levels: moral, socio-political, religious and scientific. There are 1.1 million U.S. abortions each year, this means that nearly 1 out of 4 (22%) of pregnancies end in abortion.