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Are Women Ready For Abortion Research Paper

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“No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.” (Frederica Mathewes-Green)
The risk of death from childbirth is 10 times higher than the risk of death from having an abortion. Women should be allowed to have an abortion within the first 12 weeks of their pregnancy. Abortion should be the woman’s choice, no matter what the situation is that she may be in. Women are not the only one’s who contribute into an unplanned pregnancy, meaning she should not have to raise a child she is not ready for.
Women should not be told by the government what she should do with their body. We don’t go to the government for things like a kidney transplant, …show more content…

abortions are undertaken to end pregnancies that occurred as a result of rape or incest. “Typically, people on both sides of the abortion debate accept the premise that most women who become pregnant through sexual assault want abortions. From this “fact,” it naturally follows that the reason women want abortions in these cases is because it will help them to put the assault behind them, recover more quickly, and avoid the additional trauma of giving birth to a “rapist’s child.”” (David C. Reardon, Ph.D.) Having a child from rape or incest is going to make the mother think about their past every time they look at their child, and neither the parent or the kid should be put through …show more content…

If someone is not prepared to be a mother, she should not have to be. The father is able to walk out of the child’s life from the day he’s told he is going to be a father. Females should not be shamed for not wanting to be a parent. If abortion was illegal, women would seek out help to perform unhealthy abortions, possibly killing themselves in the process. For the women who are smart enough not to perform unsafe abortions, they would have to either raise an unwanted child or put their child up for adoption. Women should not have carry their mistakes with them their entire

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