Adanna Thomas
Professor Forbes
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1st October 2017 Abortion and Women’s Health Is abortion murder? Abortion is the medical or surgical procedure that ends a pregnancy. It has been a controversial issue ever since it has existed. In Roe v. Wade (1973), the US Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protects a woman’s right to an abortion through the end of the twelfth week of pregnancy. Psychological and physical as well as negative effects on the society because of abortions. The abortion rights have brought separation between supporters(pro-choice) and opponents(pro-life) in courts and in public opinion. Because abortions are harmful to women’s health and the society they should be illegal for a variety of reasons. An abortion can have physical side effects on a woman’s body. Although abortion has been made legal in several states and different parts of the world, many women have unprofessional and unsanitary abortions done; this may have been a result of financial problems or even the shame of having an abortion. These illegal abortions harm women physically and increase the risks associated with future pregnancies or extreme conditions resulting in death. Abortion can cause extreme bleeding and damage the female organ where the fetus develops. Opponents may say that these conditions are rare but any medical or surgical procedure is not perfect. In fact, The World Health Organization stated that
Abortion is known as the termination of human pregnancy. There are mixed opinions from the public on whether abortion is considered murder or not. This topic has always been controversial and there is no sign of it being left alone. There are two groups of people related to abortion. Those are pro-life and pro-choice, pro-life oppose abortion and pro-choice is for abortion. There have been many court cases on the topic of abortion, such as Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton, Baird v. Bellotti, and Harris v. McRae to name a few. The federal government’s decisions on the cases are very unbiased and their behavior towards abortion is neutral but sometimes they do change. These court cases have made major impacts to the nation in terms of abortion
The Oxford Dictionary defines abortion as the expulsion of a fetus, naturally or especially by medical induction, from the womb before it is able to survive independently, especially in the first 28 weeks of a human pregnancy. Today many argue whether abortion should be legal in the United States. Some show religious views while others show civic views. The basis of such a debate should be on medical information. It is evident that abortion is harmful to the mother. Although women feel relief after the operation, they do not perceive at least the physical consequences. The outcome of most abortions is graphic and painful.
Many people base their opinion on if abortion is wrong is based off the opinion of when a person feels that life has begun. Many women who discover that they will be having a baby soon become really happy about the idea. Also, some who get abortions feel that pregnancy is nothing more than an inconvenience. Sometimes this inconvenience is sought to be an issue that can easily be resolved such as adoption or abortion methods. There are also times where conflicting issues create consideration about if the baby should be kept.
The risk of abortion can be very serious, and even deadly. Emotional and physical effects can occur. Some physical effects are; heavy bleeding, damage to the cervix, damage to other organs, and death. Emotional effects could result in depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and insomnia. With these side effects, mothers should evaluate and think long and hard before engaging in abortions. It is necessary to consider other options besides abortion for pregnant women who need help before making a decision. Abortion can hinder future reproductive success. It substantially increases the risk of subsequent preterm birth, which seriously threatens the lives and health of newborn children. The risk of premature delivery increases with each additional abortion. Abortion is also associated with an increased risk of infertility, miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy and placenta previa. Other long-term risks of abortion include breast, cervical and ovarian cancers. The connection between abortion and breast cancer is especially controversial. But it is clear that abortion can deprive a woman of the risk-reducing effect of a first full-term pregnancy. And physiological and epidemiological evidence indicate that abortion leaves a woman with more cancer-vulnerable breast tissue than if she had not become pregnant in the first
Abortion has been a main issue in many heated debates all over the United States for more than decade now. There are two sides people could choose from in this type situation; pro-life or pro-choice. ”Each year in America nearly 1.2 million women choose to have an abortion to end a pregnancy. The decision to continue or end a pregnancy is very personal.” The most common reasons women consider abortion are: Forced sexual encounters, drug and illness issues that could not only put the baby at risk but also the mother, or maybe even because the mother is unable to provide a stable living environment.
Bark Stupak once verbalized, “All I am asking for is the law that’s been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying identically tantamount, pro-life, pro-cull. Let’s find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.” According to dictionary.com abortion is, “the termination of gravidity, by the abstraction of a fetus from the uterus.” Abortion can be traced back to archaic times. Back in the days, historically pregnancies were terminated through several methods, before medication came in, such as the utilization of sharpened implements, abortifacient herbs, and the application of abdominal pressure. Recently, with the development of medicine, the rate of abortion has
In medicine, abortion is the premature exit of the products of conception (the fetus, fetal membranes, and placenta) from the uterus. It is the loss of a pregnancy and does not refer to why the pregnancy was lost (https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2091). Abortion is a very contentious issue and the attitude towards it has always been and is still very controversial. It has caused uncounted deaths and violent confrontations between the supporters of the two separate parties. Pro-life supporters advocate that everyone has the right to life, even “Fetus,” and Pro-choice supporters argue that the right to abortion is absolute. In “Abortion, No more Apologies,” Katha Pollitt states abortion as a normal part of a woman’s reproductive life, one that should be accepted as a moral right and a fundamental choice with positive social implications.
Abortion has always been an incredibly controversial topic. It has been one of the most widely discussed issues in the American culture for decades. Abortion is a discussion of human interaction, in which emotions, ethics, and law all come together. In many cases, people on both sides of the argument have valid points and take moral positions. A pro-choice position would assert that the decision to terminate a pregnancy lies the mother and that the government has no right to interfere or step in and make that decision. On the other hand, the position of pro-life advocates argue that life begins at the moment of conception. They believe that because the embryo or fetus is a human life and that one has no moral right to abort it. This theory argues that this human has no power or say in the matter and is rendered helpless from advocating for itself. Although abortion is a morally and emotionally charged issues, it is ultimately protected under the 14th amendment. The most common reasons for abortion include but are not limited to, teen pregnancy, rape, and health issues.
In this argumentative essay I would like you, the reader to consider a public issue from my perspective and my belief system on the matter. I’ll be supporting my view on a common and overlooked procedure conducted by women and medical doctors within a walk in clinic and home. This procedure is known as an Abortion, also known as a voluntary abortion. The definition provided by Dictionary.com is “the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy.”
However, the other forty percent of people in the United States believe that teens should never have an abortion. Not only does it kill the innocent life of a child, but it also hurts the teen involved. Several studies of women after they have had an abortion have shown that “between 40 and 60 percent of women questioned report negative reactions. Within 8 weeks after their abortions, 55 percent expressed guilt, 44 percent complained of nervous disorders, 36 percent had experienced sleep disturbances, 31 percent had regrets about their decision, and 11 percent had been prescribed psychotropic medicine by their family doctor.” (http://www.iowartl.org/get-
Abortion is the terminating of a pregnancy from the death and removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus. One of the major topics in our culture right now is over abortion. Women and men are arguing over this issue, when it shouldn’t even be a topic to argue about. In the essay “Resistance to Civil Government,” Henry David Thoreau argues against the government’s right to compel individual citizens to violate their consciences. The law that allows the murdering of human beings is a law that fully violates my conscience. The definition of abortion in dictionaries is the terminating of a pregnancy- but in all reality, it is the terminating of a human life.
Imagine ending a pure innocent human's life, well this is what happens in abortion. It takes lives of 125,000 babies per day and in the USA alone over 3000 per day. Abortion will always be a controversial topic globally because both sides believe they are correct. I like to think people just lack information on the subject or aren't correctly educated in the subject of abortion. Many fail to recognize the fact that life begins the moment of conception, but what we can all agree on, is that abortion is the termination of pregnancy.
Abortion has been known for thousands of years yet in the 1800’s states began making the medical procedure illegal. Many women sought to get abortions still from places other than the hospitals these were known as “Back-alley abortions”. Using these abortions many women suffered serious trauma or harm during these procedures. Therefore between 1967 and 1973 ⅓ of the states repealed the criminal abortion law. On the contrary the right to have an abortion only applied to american women in 1973. The 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade made it possible for women to get safe, legal abortions from well-trained medical practitioners. This led to dramatic decreases in pregnancy-related injury and death.
Ripped from her mother’s womb, the child struggles to breathe while the doctors spank her butt making sure she’s dead, this is abortion at its finest. A child has come into the world and has been born to a loving and caring family and has gotten gifts from every family member or friend. This is not an act of abortion. Abortion is the act of removing a human embryo or fetus from the uterus of a pregnant woman prior to the completion of the full term of pregnancy.
Abortion. Hearing that word awaken an intense conversation between individuals. This has been a topic that has been on the mind of the nation for decades. Is it right or do woman have the choice to do so? Here are the arguments that both sides, Pro-choice vs. Pro-Life, have to offer and their reasonings.