Mandatory Abortion In The United States

Of all the legal, ethical, and moral issues Americans continue to either fight for or against the women’s right to have an abortion. The issues surrounding abortion is in the forefront of many political races and seem to be the issue that many Americans are passionate about. It is important to realize that abortion is not a black and white issue.

Abortion refers to the intentional termination of human pregnancy. Abortion is normally carried out during the first few weeks of pregnancy and may be worse if done after many months. There are dangers and benefits of conducting an abortion. Besides this, countries have also laid own laws regulating abortion. More details about abortion are given below.

In 2008, twelve women taking resident in the U.S. died due to legal abortions performed during the second or third trimesters of pregnancy. Abortion should be available to all females living in the United States, but must be a legal citizen to have late abortions, which are during the second or third trimesters of pregnancy. Abortion is a right that women have, and the Fourth Amendment “Search and Seizure” supports it. Fewer women will exercise abortion if it is kept legal in the U.S. Late abortions are dangerous, so only legal citizens of the U.S. may have second or third trimester abortions.

Abortion has been a complex social issue in the United States ever since restrictive abortion laws began to appear in the 1820s. By 1965, abortions had been outlawed in the U.S., although they continued illegally; about one million abortions per year were estimated to have occurred in the 1960s. (Krannich 366) Ultimately, in the 1973 Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade, it was ruled that women had the right to privacy and could make an individual choice on whether or not to have an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy. (Yishai 213)

U.S. Supreme Court stands firm on the idea of restricting a woman 's right to an abortion according to the individual state. Forty-three states ban abortions after a certain time period in pregnancy. Nineteen of those states prohibits abortions at fetal viability, while three states ban the procedure in the third

At the present time, abortion is legal in the United States. The 1973 Roe v. Wade case was the landmark United States Supreme Court decision that documented abortion as a constitutional right, overturning individual states’ laws not in favor of abortion. In the case of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a woman’s right to an abortion falls within the right of privacy. The Fourteenth and Ninth Amendment clearly stated these rights in the Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside.” The Ninth Amendment states, “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be

Women in the United States haven't always had the right to an abortion. Before 1973, individual states were allowed to decide whether abortion would be legal within their borders.

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

China has the most documented female suicides in any country, approximately 500 women a day (Women's Rights Without Frontiers). Women are forced to undergo abortions, commit acts of infanticide or abandon their babies. Every forced act of gendercide damages the essence of a woman. A woman’s body is no longer hers and the choice of pro-life for her baby is no longer her choice. The Chinese government needs to recognize “the heinous crime against humanity” that it is inflicting on its women by invading their “most intimate part of [their] bod[ies]-physically, emotionally and spiritually” and implement laws to protect them and their babies from these callous procedures (Littlejohn). Fortunately, the recent abolishment of the one-child policy is a stepping stone towards change. The introduction of two-child policy, implemented on October 31, 2015, has allowed families to have two, however as seen from precedent anti-natalist policies, limiting population growth will always come with undesirable impediments. It will take more than the introduction of the two-child policy for Chinese women to heal the wounds that the one-child policy has “inscribed” into

What is abortion? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “Abortion: the premature expulsion of a [foetus] from the womb; an operation to cause this.” Abortion has been a controversial topic for many years. Some people favor adoption and some are against it. “In 2008 an estimated 1.21 million abortions were performed in the Unites States.”(Jones, and Kooistra). Many opinions collaborate in abortions rights or abortion legislation. “In 2008, 84,610 women obtained abortions in Texas, producing a rate of 16.5 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age. Some of these women were from other states, and some Texas residents had abortions in other states, so this rate may not reflect the abortion rate of state residents. The rate decreased

These facts highlight my own point that a large part of the country believes that abortion is immoral. However to have these laws standing means that many more people must have the opposite view and in their opinion a termination would be completely moral. Overall I believe the law is the key to make a fair and honest moral decision towards abortion, so that both views can be represented in a single morality, dependant upon relative morality; to include the mothers situation. In many countries such as the Republic of Ireland, Malta Afghanistan and Pakistan have made abortion illegal.

While the United States and China are aware of the importance of family, both countries look at the issue completely different. China’s reluctance to lift the number of children a woman can have is a growing concern that continues to affect China. The refusal to lift the ban will affect China’s economy and country as a whole for decades to come. In the United States, issues surrounding the concept of family are arising, especially in the upcoming Presidential election where abortion is one of the main concerns. The public is continuing to raise concerns surrounding the abortion laws, viewing abortions as a moral decision and what constitutes the killing of an innocent life.

Although many women around the world are unable to obtain legal abortions when they need them,

Abortion is an issue that spans across cities, countries and nationwide that raises concerns and questions. The argument between life and death proves to be a controversial topic all across the world. It’s an issue that applies to people of every religion, race and status regarding whether the concept of ending and unborn life is deemed moral or unjust. In Chinese alone there are a staggering number of around 13 million abortions each year and the number continues to grow. Abortion has been has been legal in Chinese since 1950 which is more than a decade earlier than in other industrialized countries (Kato, 2009). Chinese follows the One Child Policy and endorses forced abortions for women who disobey the one child law. Regardless of culture, religion or race, it is present that different influential groups have presented varying beliefs and take diverse stances on the issue of abortion making it a pressing issue since the 1900’s.

Nowadays, the world seems to get even more and more liberal. Everyone is fighting for their own rights without even trying to see a wider view of it, or how will it affect their lives aftermath. Abortion gets even more alarming due to the results of the study conducted by the Researchers from Guttmacher Institute and the University of the Philippines Populations Institute, wherein there were over 470,000 cases of it, has been performed in the Philippines. In 2010, there were projected 90,000 hospitalizations recorded due to abortion complications. Abortion is a danger to the lives of many women of our country. Thus, Abortion should not be legalized in the Philippines for it is a painful surgery that could even cause further harm in physical and psychological health.