In the US around, fifty-one percent of pregnancies are unintended. With thirty-one percent of those being unwanted. This statistic comes from the CDC. It is an unfortunate thing that, that many pregnancies go unwanted, but within those unwanted pregnancies rape does play a role. Five percent of rape victims do occur an unwanted. In the United States there are options and one of those options is of course giving your child away for adoption, but women should have more options. Women should have the option to have abortion and other pro-life choices. They should have the right to choose the options they want. There are numerous things that could assist them. There’s medical, financial disadvantages that come along with having a child dealing with a pro nine months and very large social stigmas that affect their lives.
According to the Colorado Department of Health and impairment unexpected pregnancies have a higher risk of birth defects and can cause long term development issues. These include low birth rate, child abuse, postpartum depression, lower education teaming, and a higher risk of all violence during pregnancy. It’s important to have an abortion as an option in a situation where the pregnancies are not planned to prevent harm both mother and child. Whether abortion is legal or not women will continue to terminate their pregnancy either way. According to the World Health Organization there were 19 million on scape abortion in 2000 these are performed using hangers,
What is overpopulation? Overpopulation has been defined as a situation where the number of people in an environment exhausts all available resources weakening its needed support. (Morse &Mosher) For years there have been reports of how many people are expected to live on earth by the year 2050, 2075, and so on. However, the question remains as to whether everyone will have a secured spot. Today, in 2017 there have been plenty of fights with the scarcity of resources, where overpopulation becomes the topic of conversation. However, to solve this issue the option of abortion was brought to the forefront by scientists and advocates such as Dan Savage who mentioned that abortion should be mandatory for the next 30 years in or to control the
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 it is 100% wrong and even consider it to be murder. 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.” These pro-life believers do not support the idea of abortion and believe it should be illegal. Many of these supporters do not know that if abortion were illegal they would still be performed, unfortunately by an uneducated staff. Over 70 thousand maternal deaths occur every year because of unsafe abortions. These women die, so the idea of supporting pro-life is contradictory, this is why the nation should be pro-choice.
For many years this issue of abortion has came out, giving a huge debate about it. Right now, in the United States abortion is legal but may be restricted by the states. The states have limited degree of power. Some of the laws passed by some states are the requirement of parental notification for minors, the term of pregnancy, the abortion risk information given to the patients for the procedure, etc. Abortion is becoming more pro choice. I wanted to research abortion because I didn’t really know anything about it when we had debates in class.
Over 99% of pregnancies result in both partners willingly participating in sexual relations. “All who are genuinely committed to the advancement of women can and must offer women who are pregnant, frightened, and alone a better alternative than the destruction of her own unborn child”. From 1973 to 2003, there was over 39 million documented American lives that have been ended due to abortion. If the mother's life is not in danger then abortion should not be an option. Being able to carry a child is a natural condition, there are some inconveniences but most are socially active, capable of working, traveling, and exercising almost to the day the baby is born. There are alternatives like adoption and childcare, but you should be smart and take responsibility for what you did. This information is important because it tells you about alternatives and that having a child is
Abortion in America is a hot topic in today’s society. With 1.21 million abortions in 2013 (Pro Life Action League), many people are starting to question if abortion should be outlawed. In 1973, the supreme court issued that banning abortion took away a woman’s right to life, liberty, and property (Pro Life Action League). This ban overlooks the fact of taking away another human’s right to life, liberty, and property; that human, is the fetus growing inside of the mother who aborts it. Abortion should be outlawed in America because it kills innocent human beings, frees people from taking responsibility for their own actions, and because there are other options to not having to raise a child.
One if every five women get raped, at least 5% of these pregnancies are with the child of their rapist. Numbers on sexual assault are not always accurate, as 63% of sexual violence is not reported to the police, meaning a plethora of cases have not been documented. Most women that are pregnant with their perpetrators children are seriously scarred and were not prepared for a kid. There have been instances where at the time of birth and seeing the child’s face is found to be too reminiscent of the rapist and brings forth the trauma sexual assault leaves on the victim. This is due to the fact that 81% of women report short and long term effects such as PTSD leaving them unable to care for the child adequately or sufficiently. Also this happens a lot of the time in a situation of incest, as 34% of child rapists end of being family members. This not only presents the same sexual abuse factors, but also brings in the possibility of physically and mentally disabled children, making supporting a child financially and emotionally even harder. People who are pregnant with disabled kids will many times want an abortion due to these struggles, so you could imagine if it was a consequence of sexual assault and how much of a toll it would take. Some people cannot provide enough to have a child and this causes a surplus of problems if abortion is not an option. Kids that are kept could end up being given up,
As of today, there are two types of abortions; spontaneous abortion and surgical abortion. A spontaneous abortion-otherwise known as a miscarriage-is the involuntary type of abortion. It is defined as a non induced fetal death, before 20 weeks gestation. There are a number of causes of spontaneous abortions, such as chromosomal or genetic abnormalities, malformations of the body or the unhealthy diet of the mother such as alcohol or drug use. This type of abortion occurs between 10 to 15 percent of all pregnancies among American women (Dulay, A. T. 2017). As for surgical abortion, a procedure performed in order to remove the unborn child and placenta from the mother's uterus. Unlike the spontaneous abortion, this type of abortion does not end on its own. “Surgical abortions involve dilating the opening to the uterus (cervix) and placing a small suction tube into the uterus. Suction is used to remove the fetus and related pregnancy material from the uterus (Jacobson, J 2016).” It is so sickening that these lives taken in such a disgusting way. The baby's limbs are literally being torn apart in this procedure. I can't imagine the pain the child must be in! So many people hope and wish to someday carry a child of their own and there are mothers out there who don't want the child they made. In fact, according
You’ve heard the stories of the coat hanger and the back alley, those bloody days before Roe v. Wade. Sen. Patrick J. Leahy told one recently at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Neil M. Gorsuch. As a Vermont prosecutor in 1968, three years before the court struck down state abortion bans, cops woke Leahy up in the middle of the night, because “a young co-ed nearly died from bleeding from a botched abortion.” The senator’s drift was clear: If confirmed, Gorsuch could cast a vote, or several, to bring back those horrors (if not the archaic phrase “co-ed”).
Abortion is a contentious topic; people are either pro-abortion or pro-life. The pro-abortionist are strong on their views, along with the pro-lifers. However, there is a way that people can agree with each other and come to a solution for the issue of abortion. The best way to come up with a solution is to answer the following question: Which laws should be passed that support both pro-abortion and pro-life without leaning towards one side over the other? There are numerous laws that could be passed dealing with abortion, but only few will cause both sides to agree with each other.
Many people think of abortion as murder and that killing an innocent, unborn human being is wrong. Abortion is a fundamental right and a right of privacy for a woman. She should be able to make a decision of whether or not she has the child. If a woman doesn’t want to have a child and has no choice but to have it, then that child is more likely to be given up for adoption or even neglected or abused. Unexpected pregnancies can lead to birth defects, depression for the mother (which can affect the baby) and reduced amounts of breastfeeding.
The vast majority of people in the United States support the rights of woman and men alike. This right makes them free to pursue dreams of happiness and freedom, to do as they choose as long as it does not infringe on the rights of other “humans.” That is honestly the root of the issue with abortion in this country; we firmly believe in the rights of humans, but we treat a fetus as if it was none human. Science has proven through deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that an unborn baby is indeed human, so if it is human then the only remaining question would be, “When is the fetus alive?” To find the answer, one must first start with the end in mind. This proposal will do just that, start at the end to explain the beginning and through a small amount of compromise, the abortion controversy will be solved with a common sense and responsible approach.
Currently in the United States, abortion among many other topics is controversial and causes an uproaring due to the many divergent opinions. The argument behind abortion in America is that when a woman goes and follows through with the procedure, it is viewed as murder in the eyes of many. Religious groups tend to lean towards anti-abortion, and see abortion as a ‘sin’ due to their beliefs, which causes unavoidable debates.
Abortion is one of the many topics that everyone has an opinion on. An abortion is “the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus” (Merriam-webster). Abortion has always been and most likely always be a controversial topic that not everyone will agree on. Throughout the argument, two groups have emerged; pro-choice and pro-life. Pro-choice supporters believe that women should be able to do what they want with their body no matter the circumstance. While pro-life supporters claim that life begins at conception, so an abortion at any stage of the pregnancy is considered murder. There are two types of abortions, in-clinic abortions and the abortion pill. There are a few types of in-clinic abortions such as; vacuum aspiration which happens during your first trimester, dilation and evacuation (D&E) which is during your second trimester, and dilation and extraction (D&X) if you are further along than that. However, dilation and extraction is now illegal in the United States as by the third trimester, the fetus is nearly fully developed, including its sense of pain, so this procedure is considered cruel and unusual. Abortions have been around for thousands of years, however in the 1800s abortions were illegal in the US due to the dangerous procedures and surgeries. It wasn’t until 1973 that the Supreme court granted women the right to an abortion, and abortions became legal in the United States. Ever since abortion got legalized, many people have argued whether it should be legal or not, people are either pro-life or pro-choice. Personally I am pro-choice because I believe that it is the women's right to decide what she wants to do with her body.
Abortion is not always the only option there is. People always have other options such as, giving them up for adoption. There are many people who would be lucky enough to adopt a baby. Many of these people are ones who aren’t able to have children of their own but would want to adopt to at least have a child. Abortions can put one's’ health at risk if they have multiple depending on the women’s body.“For women who have had multiple abortions, it’s the same risk as a woman who has had multiple pregnancies in general,” said Kimberley A. Thornton, MD, a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist. You never know the dangers that may or can happen. Let’s say later on you decided you want to have a baby there’s a chance in which you won’t be able to get pregnant because the abortions have caused damages to your body. There has also been an increase in abortions over the years and many women don’t know the dangers of getting one. “Poor women accounted for 42% of all abortions in 2008, and their abortion rate increased 18% between 2000 and 2008, from 44.4 to 52.2 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44.” (Guttmacher.org). Many of the people that get abortions are most likely young girls who weren’t careful( it doesn’t