My Second Argument Against Abortion

Thomson brings up the standard anti-abortion argument. Every person has a right to life. A fetus is a person. Which means a fetus has a right to life. Therefore abortion is wrong. Thomson does not understand the jump from a fetus having a right to life to abortion being wrong. She believes that the fetus being a person or not is irrelevant to the argument. And abortion is based more on the rights of the woman, fetus, and who has more of the right of ownership of the woman’s body (Thomson 47-48).

The procedure used for abortion is not only harmful to the baby obviously, but it can be dangerous for the mother both physically and mentally. Many of the risks of abortion include bleeding, infection, damage to organs, and sometimes even death but it is very rare (considering abortion). It is healthier for the woman to have birth than going through this dangerous procedure, and if the mother is not ready or does not want the baby, she can give it up for adoption. It is only fair to the baby to at least give it life to live with a family who adopts it than no life at all. After the abortion is over, women think that they are going to feel relieved to finally get this over with. For most women, this is not the case. After going through the procedure and seeing the baby get removed from their body, they almost always feel immediate regret. Seeing a dead baby the size of the palm of the doctor’s hand catches mothers off guard and traumatizes them and it should. Studies show that most women wish that they had known more about abortion before they got one (considering abortion). So, even though there are physical risks to abortion, the mental risks are the most harmful.

Abortion is one the most controversial topics in the United States. The issue at hand is should abortion be legal or not. It is highly debated with in both media and politics. According to History Channel, “Supreme Court legalizes abortion”, in 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court Case Roe V. Wade ruled that women have the constitutional right to privacy, thus legalizing abortion. This law gave women the right to terminate a pregnancy during the first two trimesters. This sparked huge controversy between pro-life and pro-choice believers. Both pro-life and pro-choice have numerous arguments to justify their opinions. In a report done by WebMD, “Abortion-Reasons Women Choose Abortion,” nine out of ten abortions are performed within the first twelve weeks. Abortion should be legal because it is a women’s constitutional right, mental and physical health, and other.

The purpose of this essay is to set out an argument that abortion is wrong. Some claim that only in “rare” instances, such as rape or within a few days of contraception, abortion is acceptable. I will agree that there are certain circumstances that abortion is more “acceptable” than other times, albeit however few and far between these instances arise. Instances that make abortion more “okay” are rape, and once it is discovered that the mother's life is in danger if she were to carry the baby the full term of the pregnancy. The basis for my argument comes from reading two opposing essays on abortion , in regards to whether it is “right” or wrong, “A defense of Abortion” by Judith

After reading the article, “Why It’s Become So Hard to Get an Abortion”, by Margaret Talbot, I am caught in the middle of pro-choice and pro-life. Talbot provides the reader with an even amount of examples explaining the beliefs of each stance. Being raised as a Catholic, my church has always preached to bring an end to abortion. Although, being a young female, I also feel we should have the choice. I think there is a way to respect personal beliefs and religion, while still being in charge of your body. This being said, I don’t agree with the act of taking the life of an innocent human without it being a medical necessity. This brings up another contrasting point, I believe that if the woman seeking the abortion doesn’t have the means to raise

Not only are you risking the child’s life but you are risking your life as well. Approximately 10% of women that undergoing elective abortion will suffer immediate complications, of which approximately one-fifth (2%) are considered life threatening(Elliot Institute). Knowing that having an abortion can be dangerous, you shouldn’t abort a child. When you have an abortion, you are damaging most of your body parts. For example, you will be damaging/having complications with the cervix, scarring the uterine lining, infection of sepsis, and perforation of the uterus(Jones). 80% of people voted yes, aborting an infant is killing a child while 20% voted no, aborting an infant isn’t killing a child(DEBATE.org). A June 2003 study published by the peer-reviewed International Journal of Epidemiology estimated that about 15% of first-trimester miscarriages are attributed to a prior history of induced abortion. A 2008 peer-reviewed study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health found that "Young adult women who undergo... abortion may be at increased risk for subsequent depression. A peer-reviewed 2005 study published in BMC Medicine found that women who underwent an abortion had "significantly higher" anxiety scores on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale up to five years after the pregnancy termination. A 2002 peer-reviewed study published by the Southern Medical Journal of

Abortion is a serious topic that people have been debating about for years. Everywhere you turn the topic of abortion presents itself, on TV, in the newspapers, in books and magazines. It already has, and will continue to cause, controversy for years to come. As long as abortion remains legal, pro-life advocates will continue to protest what they believe to be these horrible acts of murder.

Furthermore, abortion is a safe procedure and doesn’t cause health issues such as cancer or infertility contrary to popular belief. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) article, written by Raymond EG and Grimes DA, titled, The comparative safety of legal induced abortion and childbirth in the United States, it stated that “The mortality rate of a woman dying from abortion is 0.6 people per 100,000 while the mortality rate of woman dying from giving birth is 8.8 people per 100,000.” This shows that abortion is a safe procedure compared to childbirth. Even though that’s the case, we don’t see any controversy around childbirth even though childbirth is 14 times more likely to result in mortality. The only reason

The right to life is the most basic and important right that we have. In the past two hundred years, over one million Americans have died for their country. Monuments have been built and speeches have been delivered, honoring these American heroes. America is now engaged in a war where there are no heroes, no monuments or tributes - only victims. Our society has declared war on its most helpless members - our unborn children. Since that war was declared on January 22, 1973, there have been over 35 million deaths.

The issue with laws against abortion is that they are based on the individual's morality and religion, but laws are not meant to appease one’s conscious, they are meant to uphold the rights of man. Every woman and man under the United States Constitution is granted civil liberties and when President Trump delivered his Executive order, it breached people’s civil liberties by denying them access to healthcare. Whether abortion is morally correct, is up for debate, but a government should not be able to ban or defund such means for a woman to uphold her own civil liberties. When any President reinstates the “Mexico City Policy,” he forces health providers to fire staff, reduce their services, or close their entire clinics. Prohibiting abortion

Does a women’s right to choose to have an abortion outweigh a baby’s right to be born? The controversy at hand is whether the rights of a women outweigh the rights of a baby, and whether a mother should be given the rights to pursue a procedure like an abortion. To clarify an abortion is a medical procedure that ends a pregnancy in which a doctor uses a vacuum and suction to suck out a fetus from the uterus. The issue is whether the fetus who has the potential to be a rational, productive human being has the unequivocal rights of any other human being and whether he or she should be protected from, in every sense of the word, murder. The argument made by abortionfacts.com a nonprofit Christian pro-life education organization, is that

P2: Abortion is wrong unless the mother’s life is in danger due to the pregnancy.

I really enjoyed reading your post. Abortion is one of the oldest problems of medical ethics, as well as philosophy, and theology. In the traditional medical approach to the problem of abortion, the question of the viability of the fetus was almost always the main one. This includes his intrauterine development, when he is already able to survive outside the mother's body, taking into account the opportunities provided by technology. Noonan argued that we can not know exactly when the fetus becomes a human being. To solve this problem, one can turn to the probability argument. Spermatozoids and oocytes have little likelihood of becoming human. On the other hand, a fertilized egg will become a person in 4 out of 5 cases. At the time of fertilization,

Although abortion isn’t an easy choice to make it is still a choice that a woman is allowed to make. She should be supported no matter what because keeping a child is just as difficult is as giving one up. Women should be in a safe environment and have proper support when having an abortion instead of dealing with it illegally. They finally gained that right, so why take it away? Women who deal with it alone suffer reproductive complications along with psychological damage. People who oppose abortion need to recognize the unfortunate circumstances that an unborn child could be put in. Because of technology, doctors are able to tell if there are going to be life-threatening complications that could kill the child and the mother. If these things

It’s not even to say that abortions are stopped, women still have abortions, they just try to do it discreetly to avoid being penalized for it, which leads us to say then how effective is the law. In other words the abortion laws are in fact just harming more than it is reducing abortions.