Why We Should Abortion Be Legal

There are many controversial issues being debated in today’s society; however, one of the more heated issues is abortion. Abortion has been around at almost every point in American history. Consequently, since the Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade there have been approximately 57,762,169 abortions in America (“Are You”). This raises the question of should abortion be legal or illegal, and is this immoral or moral to do? The decision to have an abortion can be a difficult time in a woman’s life, but is not a moral way to end a pregnancy. Abortion in the United States should be illegal because of the effects it has on women, the immorality of killing a baby, and how it affects society.

Abortion is one of the most controversial issues today. It has become a question of not only ethics, but morals. In the 1973 case of Roe v Wade the Supreme Court ruled that a woman has the right to terminate a pregnancy by abortion within the first six months of the pregnancy. However, conservative Presidents have changed the legislation enough to allow states to restrict abortion in various ways (Practical Ethics, Peter Singer). In the following paper, I will summarize the views on abortion of Pope John Paul II and philosopher, Peter Singer. These two men have very conflicting opinions about abortion.

Abortion denies the embryo the right to life as a safeguarded in the US Constitution.By aborting these unborn infants, they are not allowing themselves to meet these new identities and unique personalities that one day they will become. These unborn infants are our new future, they are presidents, doctors, firefighters, soldiers who could be saving peoples lives, and the wellbeing of our country, but if we don’t save theirs, how are we setting the example to our society that killing is wrong, when abortion is still legal? The 14th Amendment protects the unborn children from harm. Jennifer Mason, communications director from the pro-life group Personhood USA, explained, “requires, equal protection under the law for everybody”, she asserted, “and so we believe that every human being regardless of their location,

Abortion is, and will stay, a ubiquitous topic of discussion. This medical procedure is performed when a woman has reasons to terminate a baby within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. Currently, abortion is legal in the US, but in other countries such as Ireland, Poland, and Brazil, abortion has many regulations and only allow the procedure if the woman’s life is at risk. There are pro-life individuals and pro-choice ones. As a pro-choice supporter myself, I understand that banning abortion will put millions of babies, women, and families at physical, emotional, and financial risk. I believe abortion should stay legal because they are safe, they protect most women from financial disadvantages, and in oodles of cases, abortion is necessary.

Will Singer expands his argument on a utilitarian idea in order to measure the ethical behavior in people. He believes that the ethical behavior shown towards people should not be less towards animals based on their knowledge and mental capabilities. However, I believe that when it comes to an abortion, it may depend. Singer briefly introduces an example with a disabled infant. He claimed that although the parents asked the doctor to painlessly kill the infant who has gone into an unrecoverable “vegetable” state, the doctor should not do as they ask due to the “sanctity of life.” Since Singer also believes that fetuses do not deserve to be killed since they already possess the right to life, especially at a late term. He also claimed that killing

If singer’s argument would have implications for the moral (in)permissibility of abortion would depend on who is the one suffering. Singer argues that “If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration.”(page 8). In other words, if the fetus is feeling pain at the moment of the abortion we have a moral obligation to either take the suffering away, or look for ways to stop the fetus from suffering, it does not matter if the fetus is in the body of the mother and the mother does not wish to lend her body to the fetus for few months. However, the same argument can be applied to the mother also, lets us supposed that the mother is in some kind of pain because of the fetus and the only

Abortion is no different than murder no matter when a person believes a human life becomes official. This controversy will remain for centuries, but in no country should it be legal. The fact that a potential life has ended before given a chance is murder. Most people agree that no one should have the choice of who lives and who dies. There are many reasons why abortion should be illegal. The most disturbing of these reasons is that the aborted babies sometimes scream when they are being taken out. The preceding fact

Abortion is one of many key issues that women are faced with in today’s world, to not have a child or conceiving a child through conception. What is abortion these days? To many, abortion is considered an illegal act of killing a fetus, while others believe abortion to be legal by law and punishable for it. It is unclear if the law will make its ruling to put a ban on abortion but it has come with its shared controversy.

An abortion is an induced and sudden termination of pregnancy. There are two types of abortions, Medical and Surgical. The medical method involves taking two pills within 24 hours of each other thus killing the fetus, but this method is usually done during 3-7 weeks of pregnancy. The surgical method, on the other hand involves a doctor removing the inner lining of the womb, either manual vacuum aspiration or dilatation suction curettage. Both of these methods use a suction process. With MVA (manual vacuum aspiration) a handheld device is used, while D&C (or dilatation suction curettage) is done using a suction machine and other tools. The manual vacuum aspiration method can only be carried out during the first ten weeks of pregnancy, while dilatation suction curettage can be done only between week 5 and the start of week 14. The method involves separating the fetus into small parts and the parts are then sucked up by the machine. So you can see how brutally the fetus is terminated and why I think abortion must be banned. Abortion is also an act which violates human rights, technically because the baby in the mother’s womb also has the same right to life that we do. In 2003, there were approximately around forty-two million abortions per year globally, or 115,000 every day. This was a drop from forty-six million in 1995 (In Brief: Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States n.d.). Abortions are currently done by millions and millions of women worldwide

For many years there has been an ongoing consultation on whether or not to make abortion legal. Due to the case of Roe v. Wade they deliberated, and was developed from illegal into legal. However, in my opinion, I consider Abortions shouldn’t be legal its barbarity, it can lead to psychological damage to the mother, future medical problems, lastly it can diminish the statistic of adoptable babies in the world. Abortion is an arduous procedure that is performed to end a pregnancy before the birth occurs (Alters). There has been 48.3 million abortions in the world, it’s quite a frightful amount (Merino). For instance, can you imagine 48.3 millions of people all in one cemetery? The human body has 78 organs which means that’s there’s three billion

Abortion is defined as, “the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy.” In some countries, abortion is legal and regularly practiced. In few, it is illegal. In most of the countries, if not all, there are two big

Around one million one hundred thousand abortions happen each year in the U.S; in fact, around twenty-five percent of pregnancies end in abortion. Nearly fifty percent of women who have had an abortion often have had multiple ones (Should Abortion Be Legal?). Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. Usually abortions are performed within the first twenty-eight of being pregnant. Abortion should be illegal because abortion is murder and it harms the women getting aborted.

There is an estimated 3,315 abortions per day in the United States. Abortion is defined as a medical procedure used to end pregnancy and cause the death of the fetus. Abortion should be made illegal in the United States and considered murder.

This paper evaluates how the subject of Abortion is dealt with around the world, and how Abortion acts as an important reality check over the exact amount of freedom that women are currently enjoying. An Abortion process pertaining to maternal services involves services such as abortions which means killing of a living fetus. An abortion, in medical terms, refers to removal of the fetus from the mother's body. Major reasons why women might go for abortions include danger to life, illegitimacy of the child, poverty or economic conditions, overage or under age pregnancies and child being unwanted by the husband.

“In 2013, 664,435 legal induced abortions were reported to CDC from 49 reporting areas. The abortion rate for 2013 was 12.5 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years, and the abortion ratio was 200 abortions per 1,000 live births.” (cdc.gov) Over half a million abortions in one year alone that happened in the U.S.A, and that does not even take into account the rest of the world. Abortion is the act of intentionally terminating a human pregnancy, usually done before the third trimester. The significant question is should abortion be sanctioned or should it be forbidden by law. Many argue that abortion is like murder and that it should be illegal, but the other view should not get overlooked. There are several pros and cons