Eassy On Pro Choice Abortion

Abortion is never an easy decision, but women have been making the choice for thousands of years. It has become a large dilemma since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court passed a law making the procedure legal, and an even larger controversial issue. The controversy is divided into “Pro-Choice” and Pro-Life” views. Pro-Choice supporters believe that the woman should have to choice whether to abort or not. Pro-Life supporters believe that it should be illegal to abort and preformed. However, there are many ways for this procedure to be performed. Abortion still remains today a controversial issue, by who should determine if it is the right thing to terminate a pregnancy or not and by how the procedure should be preformed.

Many individuals fail to understand the sheer magnitude of bloodshed, tribulation, and despair legalized abortion has initiated into the human experience – both in the United States and worldwide. Far more human lives have been violently ended by this immoral decision than any other war or genocide in history. It is one of the most controversial issues in today’s society. Abortion is the intentional decision to murder a human fetus by chemical, medical or surgical procedures. Those who support the rights of abortion argue that women should be able to decide what can be done to their bodies, yet the unborn baby inside a woman is a living being, and terminating that pregnancy is the equivalent of murder. These innocent children should not be held responsible for your mistakes. Don’t terminate pregnancy now, because you may not have children in the future at all.

Abortion has been one of the biggest controversies of all time. Many people believe that women should get to decide what she would do with her body. The definition of abortion is; “The termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to being capable of normal growth”. Abortion is one of the most controversial topics today. Although there are two sides of the debate pro-choice and pro life, arguments are mainly centered around the Roe v. Wade decision, women’s rights and state restrictive laws.

The controversy surrounding abortion has been long debated since the Roe v Wade case (1973) as pro-life advocates and pro-choice advocates go neck to neck on whether the process should be banned or remain legal. According to APA (American Psychological Association), abortion is the “medical or surgical termination of a pregnancy and is one of the oldest, most common and most controversial medical procedures”. To be Pro-Life means to be against the termination of a fetus; one who is not in favor of the practice. Pro-life advocates believe a woman should continue the pregnancy and deliver the baby no matter the circumstance. Pro-choice represents those who believe the woman deserves a choice to carry the baby or have an abortion. Although the 1973 Roe vs Wade case legalized abortion, abortion is still currently a much heated debate in America as the surgical procedure is possibly on the verge of becoming illegalized. However, abortion should definitely remain legal for various reasons such as individual freedom, victim protection, life opportunities, failed contraception, and it is not fair for the government to make such crucial decisions for a woman’s life.

Abortion has been a highly debated topic in the United States for many years. Contrary to the belief of some people, life begins at conception when a sperm fertilizes an egg according to Princeton University’s Margerie England. If life begins at conception, abortion should be considered murder. How can society permit the taking of a precious human life without consequences? An astonishing 1.06 million babies were killed in the United States alone in 2011. This major issue must be talked about no matter how uncomfortable it may be. Nearly every American will be affected, almost always negatively, by abortion sometime in their life. Abortion should be illegal and the Roe v. Wade court case should be overturned.

The United States has been divided now over the issue of abortion for thirty-three years since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade in 1973. As of today, over 45 million legal abortions have been performed in the United States. Pro-choice advocates hold these 45 million abortions as being 45 million times women have exercised their right to choose to get pregnant and to choose to control their own bodies. To pro-life, or anti-abortion, advocates these 45 million abortions constitute 45 million murders, a genocide of human life in the United States propagated by the court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade. The debate over abortion in the United States is thus a debate of two extremes. One side argues from the personal liberty of the mother. The

Each year there are roughly 6 million pregnancies in the U.S., with 20% resulting in the termination of the fetus, or abortion in other terms. Mathematically, that is estimated to be 1.2 million babies that have no hope for a future outside the womb (American Pregnancy). Everyone has a right to life; this right is exercised in many parts of the American life, namely the Declaration of Independence (The Abortion Controversy 113-116). Therefore, the United States’ federal government should go to greater lengths to prohibit these so called ‘abortions’ in every case, regardless of the situation. It matters not what the women who get these abortions think, and it matters to many that this is looked upon to be immoral (Guttmacher, The Abortion

Half past midnight, a middle-aged woman leaves work on a cold, bitter night, promenading across the street with the broken lamp post, stumbling in the dark to find the correct path home. Startled by the unknown hand harshly grasping to cover the only passages allowing oxygen to enter her body, she wakes in utter confusion, with no recollection of the previous night. Awaking to a realization— her body no longer belongs to one individual; it will now nurse a fetus she had no conscious intention of obtaining. A woman is entitled to her body, with full consent, whether she has been taken advantage of through sexual assault/incest or is simply not prepared to raise a child. Situations regarding abortion find their way into the corner for a reason, and it is a woman’s right to have control over what takes place within the frame of the minuscule round of her stomach; the control is not given to a morally religious-based stranger with the belief that an unborn life has greater importance than the woman herself. The opposing viewpoint from pro-life perspectives claim the moral faults in discontinuing a pregnancy, but fail to provide solid reasoning that is not infested with religiously biased opinions. Allowing abortion to empower women consists of providing rights which allow their lives to reach success, rather than enforcing restrictive laws which lock them into the chains of an unwanted pregnancy.

According to an article in Time, “The battle for abortion rights has become, in recent years, a losing war of attrition, … [and] lawmakers have steadily chipped away at women’s rights and women’s dignity.” Since the 1800s, the laws surrounding abortions have been debated, arguing whether conception provides the basis for life and therefore human rights, or whether the right to abortion lies solely with the mother. Another argument revolves around whether or not a woman has the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy or if she should carry it to term. Abortion must be a protected legal right because the decision lies with the mother, as described in the Fourteenth Amendment and interpreted in Roe v. Wade, since the embryo does not have protected rights and in order to maintain the fundamental right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” in the case of terminating an unwanted pregnancy.

Abortion is a big story in America and is debated whether it should be legal or not. In fact, Is this about women's rights vs murder. Some people think woman have the right to do what they want to their body and can choose to get abortions, but what they don’t think about is the baby and who they are really harming. Consequently Women are getting abortions due to something tragic that happen to them or just because of family reasons.

A widespread misconception with the pro-life, pro-choice dispute is that pro-choice means “for abortion”. Pro-choice plainly means women have the right to chose what they want and no one can chose for them. “I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is

The issue of abortion remains to be one of the most controversial issues today, mainly because of its premise as an idea – the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. Obviously, the decision to terminate a human pregnancy is quite shocking to some people, but a recent surge of liberal opinions and social change in the 21st century has seen the rise of abortion and its practices. The most common way of thinking for feminists on abortion is the right over their own body, stating that they should be able to control whether they have a baby or not. This is the most common view point potential mothers use when deciding to have an abortion. My body, my choice.

The issue of abortion has been a highly polarizing topic in recent decades, although abortion has been around for thousands of years. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary (2014) defines abortion as “a medical procedure used to end a pregnancy and cause the death of a fetus.” Today three highly debated points regarding abortion are: should it be legal, when does human life begin, and who should provide financial backing for the procedures?

Since the year of 1973, many young innocent lives have been awaiting for the world ahead of them. Young premature babies thinking that they may still have a life ahead of them. In fact, many babies today, are now being unborn. Many humans today are now arguing that while it is a potential human being it is not yet a tangible one. This mentally is clearly dignifying carelessness, ignorance of a child’s life, and also a lack of responsibility. In fact, many women who are with this law are not aware of the unlimited amount of health risks it can cause to the carrier herself. Abortion, legalized in the United States of America, is not a justified way of ending a young child’s chance to take a breath as it is overriding the child’s will and therefore causing complications for many.

There is widespread debate in American society on whether abortion should be an accepted and legal medical practice. Those who oppose abortion claim that fetuses are human persons with a right to life which must be protected by law, even at the earliest stages after conception. Those who support a woman’s right to choose whether she will carry an infant to term argue that the mother’s rights to bodily autonomy and to decide whether or not to have a child outweigh any rights a fetus might have. This paper will introduce the abortion rights debate in the context of social justice and will then explore two facets of the pro-choice argument: abortion as a tool to ensure women’s bodily autonomy and the impact access to abortion has on women and infants.