Cons Of Abortion

There are two main political parties you can choose from in the United States, The Democrats and the Republicans. There are also third parties you can choose from. People can choose to be part of any party. We are divided by the left and right side on the political spectrum. The right are more conservative and the left are more liberal. These two political parties show philosophical differences through their viewpoints on major topics. With so many differences between the parties, finding topics or issues upon which constituents agree on can be difficult.

“How can the “Dream” survive if we murder children? Every aborted baby is like a slave in the womb of his or her mother. The mother decides his or her fate” (Martin Luther King, Jr). This quote, by Martin Luther King Jr, represents how Martin Luther King Jr really feels about abortions, and how abortions relate back to the idea of slavery. As abortions are spreading all across the world many people have wondered if there are any positives to abortions? If there are not any positives to abortion then people may wonder, what are the negatives to abortions, and how do other people feel about abortions.

Abortion is a subject that numerous people have strong opinions about; some believe that it is a form of murder and should be banned, yet others believe that the decision should be for the woman herself to make. In my eyes, the choice to abort or not abort is the woman’s, not the public’s. However, many men disagree with pro-choice.

I hold the belief that a woman should have the right to have an abortion if that is what she would like. This means I identify as a pro-choice supporter. If the government ever decide to illegalize abortion, it would mean that women do not 'own' their body and instead the lawmakers do. As soon as a third party, such as lawmakers, are given the power to decide that abortions are wrong and they decide to ban abortions, women are no longer in control of their own bodies which makes them powerless.

Imagine yourself as a 16 year-old girl or boy who made a mistake and ended up with an unwanted pregnancy. Would you want to go through with the pregnancy or would you want to have an abortion? You think that it will be easy and you can go on in life. Then your life starts to go down hill, you miss a lot of school, and can’t make it to work. You end up dropping out of school. This all would’ve been easier if you got an abortion. I support people who get abortion. People say it is killing a life when it is only a fetus that isn't developed all the way. Also women can do what they want to their own body, and Women will do what they want even if it is illegal or legal. They will do it regardless.

Thousands of women in the world have abortions. “ Since the 1970’s, abortion has been a very controversial issue throughout the United States. Anti-Abortion and pro choice organizations often express their differences of opinion in lawful demonstrations” (Andryszewski 10).Think of it this way, all of the fetuses are in life or death situations. Their mother is choosing whether or not she wants to keep them or abort them. The children that are getting aborted will never get the chance to live. The children that are aborted will never get a choice.They will never get to go through all of the good, and even the bad, times of life. Life is a blessing, and everyone should get the chance to live their life. Women who just don’t want a child, or even women who have been raped, are wanting abortions all throughout America. Whatever the reason for the abortion, the pregnant woman should not have the choice of taking a life that they created. There are reasons and other options why women should not get abortions. Abortions should be illegal because these women are murdering a child that is unborn, it could be harmful to women, and if not always, then almost always, women have the choice of adoption.

Of course when making any decision it is important to critically think out the whole situation. It is very important to not make irrational decisions. In order to help make the best decision the pros and cons should be taken into consideration. The pros of having an abortion could be but not limited to, being unable to financially afford a child. There may be health risk for the woman so an abortion may save a life. The pregnancy may have been a result of violent crime or assault. “The 'Hyde Amendment' refers to an amendment first offered by Rep. Henry J. Hyde in 1976 to the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare, Appropriation Act, 1977. The amendment restricted the use of appropriated funds to pay

Whereas, those who believe that abortion should be legal are pro-choice. They may say that abortion should be legal in the United States because women should be able to decide what happens with their body, the mother doesn’t want the baby, and they’re too young to take care of a baby. In most cases those who are pro-choice believe that the mother should have the choice of what happens to their body, hence the name pro-choice. However, the right for someone to live overrides the right for someone to choose. The right for the mother to choose is way more than just what happens with their body, it is the choice of whether there baby lives or not. Another commonly used reason why abortion should be legal is that the mother doesn’t want the baby. This is an example of irresponsibility on the women’s part. If they didn’t want the baby in the first place they should have taken precautions. Sex is meant for reproduction and the mother should have realized that and been more responsible, by using protection. They had a choice not to use protection, thus resulting in a baby. Lastly, one reason why people believe that abortion should be legal is that the mother is too young to take care of a baby. However, in most cases the mother is not too young. For example, “In Missouri in 2012 the number of abortions by those 19 years old and younger was 13.9% of the total number of abortions.” (Pazol 69) In many

The same article also states, “…98 percent of women who preferred abortion is due to inconvenience or part of their personal choice, 1.7 percent is because of their health, while only .3 percent is due to rape or incest.” (Worst Long Term Effects of Abortion, 2015) Abortion is used as a contraceptive because most women do not want to deal with the consequences of their actions. Abortion is inhumane and devalues all human life. They devalue human life by saying the fetus is not a human being, because the fetus is not viable. Rev. Jesse Jackson, a pro-lifer, once said, “Don’t let the pro-choicers convince you that a fetus isn’t a human being. That’s how the whites dehumanized us… The first step was to distort the image of us as human beings in order to justify what they wanted to do and not even feel they’d done anything wrong” (The Devaluing of Human Life, 2006). The same article

The question that always rises in this controversy is simply why women want to proceed to have an abortion. The answer to this question is almost always due to the problems with how it was conceived or how the baby is going to turn out when it is born. Abortion is a very common end result when a woman becomes pregnant from sexual assault. The evidence of this instance in a form of a child can be unbearable and terribly nostalgic for the mother. According to the article, “Abortion Can Never be Morally Justified”, “abortion carries its own variety of trauma, however; women—even those who were victims of sexual assault—have reported years of physical, emotional and psychological difficulty following their abortions.” Although sexual assault is a traumatic experience many people go through, in most cases, this practice did not solve problems but created new ones. To add, the circumstances of conception was criminal but, the life of any average person is just as valuable as newly-created human. Although rape is one of the most common cause of abortion, unexpected pregnancies are another leading cause of this procedure. According to Shriver

All around the world, there are many controversies that people argue for and fight against. One of these controversies is; abortion which is the deliberate termination of a pregnancy before a fetus is capable of independent life. This is a very controversial topic because people are worried about the moral ethics of ending an unborn child’s life. There are two different sides to this debate that include; people who are pro-life and people who are pro-choice. People who are pro-life believe in anti-abortion because they believe that it is wrong and killing a fetus is taking away a human life. On the other side of the controversy, people who are pro-choice believe that women should have the right to choose to have an abortion in order to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy. Many people have different views on this controversy and the article “Women Seek Abortions for a Variety of Different Reasons” talks about a study that asked women why they have abortions and compared the different reasons with each other.

Secondly, abortion does not just end the life of the baby these women are carrying in their womb, it also affects the women both physically and psychologically. Women that have had abortions have higher possibilities of getting cervical cancer than women that have never had an abortion. It has been shown that women that have had abortion experience guilt that leads them to depression or even more severe mental illnesses. The guilt these women experience after they have had an abortion has led many women to commit suicide or lead them to a life of despair that will not allow them to be happy with future kids. Knowing the choice, they made was not correct there is always a right way, if they could not take care of the baby there’s adoption

How many times has the topic of abortion come up in one of your conversation? One minute you could be talking about a party and the next everyone is giving their opinions on abortion. Abortions are one of the many things people cannot stop talking about; in addition, no one seems to agree with one another. ….

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A forty-year old woman named Alyson Draper, from Midway, Utah had to make the most difficult decision in her life when she decided to have an abortion after 22 weeks into her pregnancy. This might seem crazy to people for a women to even consider getting one and ending what they believe is a person's life. After hearing the reason she got this abortion a lot of people might think different, Draper was on her way into being a mother of eight when she found out she was pregnant with twins. Unfortunately the worst happen when she found out that one of them had passed away while still in the womb and the other had severe spina bilfida and would only survive a couple days outside the womb on life support in a great deal of pain. In addition to the babies her own life was in jeopardy if she went along in having these babies so that's when Draper and her husband had to make the difficult decision to have the abortion to save Draper's life so she can be there for the six children she already has. “I had always been firmly in the category that I would die before I would abort a baby or a fetus, that was something I never saw doing, and I was disapproving of women who did so,” she said. “But afterward, I thought how unethical it is to judge another woman for doing that, because you never know what the circumstances are (Para 14). This is just one of the countless examples of why abortion shouldn’t be morally frowned upon, but I also believe if you are getting an abortion just so you