Persuasive Essay On Abortion

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.

Just about all abortions take place early in the pregnancy like the first trimester, when a fetus does not exist without the support of the mother. Because it’s attached by the placenta and umbilical cord and cannot be regarded as a separate entity as it cannot survive outside her

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 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.

As adults, people should have to take responsibility for their actions and decisions such as having a child. There are many ways to avoid this outcome, but many do not feel as though it is important, or these steps do not pertain to them. Many believe that it should be the mothers choice because it is her body, but this is not the case. There is another human inside of the mother’s body that deserves every opportunity to live just as much as the mother or any other person does. People are familiar with having consequences to their actions, so they take the easy way out, so they do not have to deal with consequences. “Based on available state-level data, an estimated 908,000 U.S. abortions took place in 2015” (U.S. Abortion Statistics). At the end of the day that is 908,000 lives that were taken before they were even started. It is the women’s body that is being affected as an outcome of the decision she made, but the baby did nothing to deserve to be killed.

Mother Teresa once said, “The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.” Ayelet Waldman once said, “Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.” So what is the correct answer? Life or choice? Abortion is one of today’s most controversial issues and topics of discussion and it is also one of the topics which is immoral by the church and its Catholic social teaching of human dignity and respect for life.

As we get older it isn’t uncommon for woman to get pregnant, but with that you also hear about abortions more frequently. To me woman shouldn’t have an abortion unless it is for a medical reason. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2014 there were 652,639 cases of legal abortions in the United States. if you really put it into perspective out of 1,000 women 21.1 of them have had an abortion. To many people that may seem like not a high number but to me I think about lives that could be here on earth if the baby wasn’t taken for a reason such as the mother’s life is endangered, or the mother had been rapped. What I don’t exactly stand for is when they have abortions because they can’t afford the baby, the parents are just teenagers, or simply just because they don’t want to have a baby. As all three of those difficulties could be solved with getting help from the government, help from a school and counselor on how to budget money, family members could help, or even as a last option putting your baby up for adoption. Taking the life of a baby for a non-medical reason is not okay because there are plenty of other options.

Abortion has become a social issue in the united states and it is because there is an argument weather human rights should be given to the unborn children, but wanting to take away the option for abortion is taking away rights from women. Abortion is an extremely sensitive topic for many people, mostly for woman and religious people. There is controversial arguments between pro-life; those who believe abortion should be illegal and with pro-choice; those who believe abortion should be up to the woman to decide. An abortion usually needs to take place during the first three months of the pregnancy. Doctors have to methods to completed the procedure; the most common one being suction curettage which involves removing the fetus from the womb by scarping the woman’s uterus. The other method is by taking a pill which causes the body to block the hormone progesterone which helps with the development of the embryo.

Abortion is constantly called on for being a crime and should become illegal. Abortion is considered wrong during late term pregnancy although, the woman's life is being threatened the more she progresses towards the time she is due. Women who are in life threatening position during their pregnancy should have the right towards abortion. Due to the women being inefficient towards continuing further on in their pregnancy. Also, the women should be allowed the right to abort because it is still their own body and at the end of the day it should still come down to their decision. Another important reason that abortion should be legal is that some women were not even allowed the choice to conceive due to being abused and raped.

Maureen Condic, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy and Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine, explains that the "most primitive response to pain, the spinal reflex," is developed by eight weeks gestation. She adds that "There is universal agreement that pain is detected by the fetus in the first trimester. (“Abortion ProCon.org”). No one deserves to feel this type of pain, especially a human being who has not been able to experience life yet because it got taken away from them unfairly. Bernard N. Nathanson, MD, states that when an abortion is performed on a 12-week-old fetus, "We see [in an ultrasound image] the child’s mouth open in a silent scream (“Abortion ProCon.org.”). All of this evidence proves that the fetus feels pain just the same as it would if it was already born. Even though late-term abortions are rare, nearly 13,000 late-term abortions are performed annually. Abortion after 20 weeks requires crushing and dismembering a baby. Pieces of the child, of whom has a functioning nervous system and is capable of feeling pain, are then pulled through the birth canal. After 25 weeks, abortions require stabbing the child in the heart or brain with a heart-attack inducing drug (Damstra).

The abortion debate is still alive today and branches out all over the world, from developing countries that have improper medical care to the most developed countries where everyone is well off and provided everything they need and want. In an academic journal, known as “Abortion Debate,” these issues are expressed. It’s already been established that laws on abortion are different all over the world. In some places, like Northern Ireland, abortion is illegal unless the woman in question is in danger for being pregnant. Then, in places like Greece, there are no restrictions on abortions as long as it’s a set number of weeks gestation. In Greece, this number is up to twelve weeks. After that abortion is not an option. While abortion is available in Western Europe, the rate is lower than that in Africa, where it is illegal. In places like this, women are forced to go under illegal procedures to abort their unborn child. For this reason, many believe that abortion needs to be legal to provide safe procedures for those seeking one. Now on to America; many U.S. citizens think abortion, while legal, needs restrictions. Those restrictions varying from health reasons to how many weeks of gestation a woman can be up to. 26% of Americans want abortion to be legal no matter the reason. 56% think there need to be restrictions. Then 17% believe abortion needs to be illegal. These 17% have used many tactics to stop abortion, one of those ways being making getting an abortion more difficult. This means raising prices, putting

Critics of abortion point out that the baby can feel pain during the procedure. Many argue that

Imagine that each day that you wake up, thousands of people have been arranged to be murdered. Well, that’s actually the case. According to the National Right to Life, nearly 4,000 abortions are performed daily. When you think about it, that’s a great deal of unborn children that are just “discarded” or erased, like a sheet of paper containing an awful mistake. An abortion, by definition, is the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of a human embryo or fetus (spontaneously or by induced expulsion). Abortions have been performed for centuries, and surprisingly, are still legal today. Women shouldn’t be given the choice to terminate a pregnancy due to the availability of family planning services, number of families wanting to adopt, and the post effects of the procedure.

Women have had the struggle of being denied equality in both politically and socially events. One ongoing political debate is regarding abortion and whether or not it should be prohibited. Many critics oppose to permit this option due to constitutional or religious belief of ending a life before it begins. Abortion can be looked upon as a sinful or unforgivable action which can make lots of people judge women almost immediately. Efforts to keep strict law restrictions over abortion have continued, although, what many fail to realize is that an abortion can sometimes play a huge factor into saving a mother's life. The unending discussion was ignited for year but one of the main reason for the debate was based on by the decision formed from the Roe v. Wade case in 1973.