Abortion: the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus. Throughout our lives we are constantly taking other people’s opinions into consideration. We care more about what people think of us, rather than how we think of ourselves. In reality, the only opinion that matters is your own. Abortion has been legal since 1973. People have been arguing whether it should be legal or illegal ever since. Abortion should stay legalized for various reasons. A woman has rights, and these rights include what she gets to do with her body. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in favor of abortion rights during the case of Roe v. Wade on January 22, 1973. They stated that “This right of privacy… is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.” People argue that a baby is capable of feeling pain when it is killed. This is completely false. A developing fetus’s brain starts to structure between the 7th and 8th months of gestation and during this time they start to perceive pain. This is far past the time when an abortion is carried out. So technically, the baby can’t feel anything at the time of the …show more content…
Nobody wants to feel unwanted. Getting pregnant is an extremely important decision between two people that requires consideration, preparation, and tedious planning. If you force a women to keep her baby, regardless of what she wants, then the rate of unwanted and neglected children will spike. These children who aren’t properly cared for often end up committing crimes or getting involved with illegal activities. Studies show that legalized abortion has directly affected the decrease in the amount of crimes being committed per year. If you raise a child that you carefully planned for, in a welcoming home, then it is less likely that the child will end up getting involved in suspicious
It is also an option for someone that is in the consideration of an abortion. Conducting abortions also decreases the number of adoptable babies for other couples. Think of it this way, there's a baby because a couple felt responsible enough to have a sexual relationship. If a couple feels responsible enough to have a sexual relationship, then they should be responsible enough to take responsibility for what may happen after. The baby is not responsible for the adults actions and should not have to pay for it with his/her life. If the mother does not want her baby, then she can always put him/her up for adoption and let another couple feel the joy of having a
Though the Supreme Court voted pro-choice in the 1973 court case of Roe v. Wade, abortion still remains a hot topic among the American population and political parties. The case was based on an argument on the 14th amendment: right to privacy, that made it the woman's decision to have an abortion. This amendment, however does not protect the liberty and privacy of the fetus, meaning, the child does not receive his or her inalienable rights until after birth. Ever since Roe v. Wade was enabled, there has been a strict division within the United States between the pro-life, and pro-choice believers. The idea of pro-choice negates the 5th amendment rights to life and liberty. What does it say about the right to kill in the constitution? Nothing. Surgically aborting an unborn child is unethical, cruel, selfish, and most importantly, it's murder.
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 controversial topic that has snaked its way through our nation. Some people claim that a “woman's decision about her own body is paramount”, while others believe that a “baby's life trumps all.” Pro-abortion and anti-abortion individuals have never achieved solidarity. People who support anti-abortion disregard a woman’s reason for having one and how having a child may affect their life. Society is focused on a life that has not seen the world. They don’t realize that a woman may not be financially stable, mentally stable, or healthy enough to bear a child. All three articles capture the idea that women should have the right to an abortion.
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.
However, the beginning of human life cannot be determined and extends beyond the knowledge of medicine. The problem of the moral status of the fetus is done by experiences, religious and philosophical beliefs, moral belief, and so on. Medicine does not ability to establish when the moral status on the fetus occurs. Moreover, the fetus within 12 weeks is not fully developed, so arguing about the fetus’s moral fetus is somewhat unreasonable and unnecessary. According to Elizabeth Harman, “inaccessible facts determine a fetus’s moral status. We can’t ever know how to treat an early fetus, because we can’t be sure of its moral status.” (Harman). Furthermore, the fetuses cannot feel pain during abortion (Rosenfield). According to Stuart W. G. Derbyshire, “necessary to the development of pain experience is also yet to occur.” (Derbyshire), and “there is no evidence that brain and neurological system are developed enough even at twenty-four weeks for the fetus to experience pain” (Rosenfield). Arguing about something that has not proven is not right. Even though today’s medical techniques have been developing rapidly, there are certainly some concepts that cannot be proven with them.
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.
There are several controversial debates regarding the medical procedure of abortion. Abortion is known to be the process of removing an undeveloped fetus from the mother's womb; ending the pregnancy. During early pregnancy, the yet to be mother has to make a choice: if to carry the unborn child to birth or to abort it before it is able to future develop. This procedure has created lots of bias and opinions: two opposing faction, on one side, individuals are all "for" the actions of abortions, supporting the actions of abortion and believe that women should be able to decide if they want to abort or not. In the other hand, there are many individuals who are all against the idea of abortion and want the action of aborting to be illegal. No nation committed to individual liberty should consider the wholesale murder of helpless babies with little to no concern for the well-being of the babies. Women are not forced to bear children, they choose to bear children by the act of having unprotected sexual intercourse. The practices of ending a pregnancy should be banned all around the world.
1 out of every 6 women in America has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. Reports conclude that 5% of these victims become pregnant, and that’s in America alone. To make matters worse, most of these women cannot afford an abortion and have to live with a constant reminder of the horrible things they’ve been through. That’s why victims of sexual assault should have free access to an abortion if needed.
The human race is in a constant search for the answers of life. The topic of abortion is a very controversial subject in today’s society. The abundance of strong opinions regarding both sides of this argument, has left many Americans confused and undecided about whether abortion should be legal or illegal. It is a mother’s fundamental right to have the option to abort. If society outlaws this right, society is interfering with a mother’s decision pertaining to her own body. A full grown woman feeling comfortable with herself and body is more important than an unborn fetus’s right to life. Abortion will continue to be an issue because every person possesses different morals. Making abortion legal across the country would stress the importance of women's rights, which so many have fought to receive, and would also prevent young teens or rape victim from ruining their lives. Clearly, there are many valid opinions for this issue which is why no one can simply deny the effect of the impact this decision will have on our society.
Abortion is the removal of a fetus from the uterus before the fetus is mature enough to live on its own. It has been a very controversial topic for almost half a century. Should abortion be legalized? People all over the world have different opinions and is debated worldwide. Different states have different laws on abortion. Each year, more than 50 of all pregnancies are unintended and half of the unintended pregnancies end in abortion, which is 1.5 million each year. What makes abortion so sensitive is that, many people consider it as murder of innocent human life. Many people also think it’s completely up to the parents to decide whether they want the baby or not. I think by considering the stage of fetus and condition of mother they should decide whether to allow her to have abortion or not so that illegal activities can be minimized.
Abortion is murder to an innocent baby and I think it should be illegal. They don’t have an opportunity to choose life or death, its chosen for them. There are two types of abortion one known as a “miscarriage” and that doesn’t take a medical procedure or you have artificially induced abortion where you murder the baby. I do not believe in artificially induced abortion and I would never have one. If you don’t believe in abortion or are against it you should not have one. The baby might still be in your body but its a baby, its alive and it can feel the same pain that we feel as humans. For me being a teen I couldn’t imagine saying I was going to have an abortion. Killing a baby as a teen I think would be even harder than if I was older. If I killed a baby that has done absolutely nothing and had no chance of getting to see the earth or the future it holds would honestly make me very depressed. On the other hand if you don’t want the baby I guess there is a case where you should have an abortion if you’re not going to take care of it or give it the attention that it needs. There is always the answer of putting the baby up for adoption after you have it.
To begin, there has always been a huge issue with the topic of abortion, why? Well, it’s a tough subject and can get extremely emotional and very defensive. Honestly, people just need to open up their eye’s and understand that it's murder and not just a choice. It is murder because two can create a blessing and the choice of aborting it, is more like a sacrifice for the reason a mother can’t carry a baby for nine months. Whether a person is a teen, young adult, or an adult and is in a horrible situation that believes they cannot proceed with the pregnancy, they should know there are other options. Teens aborting an unborn baby is not a choice and should be banned because it is wrong without parental consent, the rights of a child, and it’s murder.
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
Many people are blinded by the tradition of when women cooked, cleaned, and cared for their children. They have not realized that the world is changing and is in need of change. Men have almost always had the higher authority in the world. Though only in recent times has the world changed to having women gain higher authority becoming equal with men. Women in this new era are finally starting to be recognized equally to men.