Essay about Research on Abortion

Abortion is the deliberate killing of the weakest and most defenseless among us. Unfortunately, for the last few decades, the practice has been recognized as a fundamental human right by the highest court of the land. American culture has become increasingly accepting of traditional values and principles being compromised. Political correctness now replaces ethics, self-reliance is replaced by dependency, and crudeness now takes the place of knowledgeability. Today’s culture is corrupt and morally depraved, and there is no other topic that demonstrates this better than abortion.

There are many limitations valued when it comes to the right of abortion. The news media still outlines the pros and cons of anti-abortion rights in certain-states-to soon, the entire country. My perspectives on the issue of abortion have been entitled from it to never be banned among citizen’s rights. The reproduction of pregnancy has been emphasized heavily on a mother’s decision to abort their child, but the father of the child plays an active role since he considers to that particular title. Through this current issue, majority of the people against abortion do not seem to have an open mind to how much it primarily affects the decision of the mother amongst her own views of considering abortion.

The topic of aborting an innocent fetus has been overwhelmingly controversial in the United States. The two sides to this ongoing debate is pro-life advocates and pro-choice advocates. Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it can survive outside the uterus; whether it is an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy. Abortions are most often performed during the first twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy and can be performed as a medical or surgical procedure. Medical abortions include two types of abortion pills; while the surgical procedures include vacuum aspiration and dilation and evacuation. Ultimately, I am one of the many “pro-lifers”, and I strongly agree that abortion should be illegal because it negatively affects our people. Women across the nation are becoming impregnated and following a short amount of judgement time, turn to abortion to solve their problems but in the end hurt themselves with this decision. Abortions should be illegal because it is immoral and unconstitutional, causes severe mental and physical issues, and negatively impacts the economy. “During the ancient Roman times it has been supposed that abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was permissible, but as our civilization has aged, it seems that such acts were no longer acceptable by rational human beings, so that in 1948, Canada along with most other nations in the world signed a declaration of the United Nations promising every human being the right to life”

While the history component is important in understanding the future of abortion in the United States, an examination of the varying ideological arguments is paramount as well.

Abortion is one of the most personal, widely discussed, and controversial topics in American culture today. In most cases, people on both sides of the argument take worthy and moral positions. Who can blame someone who wishes to prevent the termination of a teen pregnancy to save the life of an unborn child? On the other hand, who can blame anyone who advocates the soon-to-be mother's right to make such a personal, heartbreaking choice? No matter what she chooses to do, should anyone have the legal right to force her to bear an unwanted child? Most people in the US are pro-choice, and believe that abortion should be a legal, confidential decision that only a woman can make for herself. However, some are against the idea of

According to the article “Are Abortion Rights Threatened, 2013” over fifty million infants, died in 2012 before they even stepped foot into this world, due to abortion. To clarify abortion is the termination of the fetus in the mother’s womb typically by chopping up the baby into pieces with a knife, cracking its skull and vacuuming out its brains, or with the drug RU-486. As a result, abortion is one of the most common and cruel cause of death in the United States, yet the government has legalized this practice. Moreover, there are other measures that can be taken if a women feels she needs an abortion including adoption and financial aid. Therefore, women should not choose to abort her baby, because it is immoral and harmful

They believe that abortion is not murder because “the fetus is not yet a human being because it cannot survive outside the uterus on its own. Abortion should not be considered murder if the fetus is not self-sustaining and requires the mother’s body and physical resources to survive”(Arguments for and against abortion). “A woman’s body belongs to herself, and she should be free to do what she deems necessary for her body and overall health in any situation.”(Arguments for and against abortion). Women have the right to their body, and if someone takes that right away from women, they will be going against the Constitution. If a woman is in danger she has the right to end her pregnancy. It is her body and she can do whatever she feels is necessary in the situation. No one can tell a woman what to do with her own body. For example like“in cases of rape or incest, the resulting baby would be a constant reminder to the woman of the trauma she experienced. Research also suggests that the babies of such cases face a higher risk of neglect or abuse from their mothers for various reasons”(Arguments for and against abortion). If a woman has gone through one of these traumatic situations then she has the right to an abortion. The child would be a constant reminder of what had happened to her in the past. If the woman was raped and doesn’t want the baby, then people shouldn’t make her have the child. These children are at higher risk of neglect or abuse like was previously stated above. To avoid more children getting abused or neglected people need to let women decide to have an abortion or not. If women want children, the baby is more likely to be loved and cared for throughout its life. Now, if society makes women have a baby they don’t want, then they are more likely not to care for it as much or give it the loves it needs. Women have a right to their bodies and deserve

Pro-life advocates argue that abortion is murder “Abortion ends a pregnancy by destroying and removing the developing child. That baby’s heart has already begun to beat by the time the mother misses her period and begins to wonder if she might be pregnant (about 31 days after the mother’s last menstrual period or LMP).” (nrlc.org) Pro-life activists make the cunning argument that abortion is equivalent to murder, and murder is not ethical. Therefore, abortion is unethical. These activists claim that abortion promotes promiscuity and therefore call for no toleration of abortion under any circumstances. Pro-life activists find that the majority of women having abortions are not victims of incest or rape. They are having abortions for purely social reasons because of unwanted pregnancies. Approximately 93 percent of women listed “social reasons” as means for getting an abortion not rape, incest, or health reasons. Abortion is wrong for many reasons, but above all, the main reason is murder. With the media’s involvement on this issue, abortion has become one of the most widely talked about and controversial issues in the United

Hillary Clinton ever said, “We’re always going to argue about abortion. It’s a hard choice and it’s controversial, and that’s why I’m pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.” Yet, abortion is a truly heated arguable topic between proabortionists and antiabortionists. There are many reasons, tears, arguments, thoughts, and sins behind an abortion story. As a female, I have a privilege to give birth to a “fetus” and to be a mother, and so this particular topic really touched me.. Whether abortion is a woman’s right or a crime, it depends on how liberal or conservative each individual’s view is. Therefore, I want to explore more about this topic, not to prove that ones right nor others wrong, but to give more deep and thoughtful informations for everybody, not just women about abortion.

One of the most influential philanthropists of all time, Mother Teresa, once explained that to her the greatest destructor of peace was “abortion, because it is a war against the child- a direct killing of the innocent child- murdered by the mother herself.” In the United States, four in ten of unintended pregnancies result in abortion culminating in approximately 1.21 million abortions each year.1 Abortion, defined as the removal of a fertilized egg from the uterus, has been a controversial issue in our society. On January 1973 the Supreme Court of the U.S gave the right to abortion on Roe vs Wade. This monumental decision gives the absolute right to abortion regardless of the stage of pregnancy, not limited to the first trimester as it

When a woman needs an abortion, she will get one. George Monbiot, is a journalists who said, "There is no association between its legality and its incidence...Banning abortion does not stop the practice; it merely makes it more dangerous." Making abortions illegal is not going sojourn anything. All it will do is force women to have abortions in illegal, unsanitary places done by nonprofessionals or attempting the procedure themselves like Geraldine. Illegal abortions are much more dangerous than legal ones. During the 1950s and 1960s, before Roe vs. Wade, 200,000 to 1.2 million women died of illegal abortions in the United States. Also, the mother’s rights are equally as important as the fetus’s. Abortions are a right the mother needs to make for herself and her child. Ayn Rand is a novelist who quote, "One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living." This quote is relevant because it is pointing out that by giving the fetus a “right to live”, you could be depriving the rights of the already living mother. When people find abortions immoral, they are only thinking of the child and not the mother. Pro-life activists argue that abortions are unnecessary because of adoption and other after birth options. However,

The extremists of pro-life are exceedingly adamant on persuading women to not abort the fetuses. These extremists invade women’s privacies and undermined women’s freedoms on decisions making. The pro-life advocates are simply third parties who claims that they are trying to save lives; however, their earnest intentions cannot outweigh the consequences that sometimes comes with keeping the fetus. For example, a sixteen year old female became impregnated by her seventeenth year old boyfriend. Her family’s financial background exhibit that they have a low income, and same goes for her boyfriend. On top of that her family have history of drug and physical abuse. The sixteen year old female decided that she is currently incapable of raising a child; therefore, she decided to go to Planned Parenthood. On the way there she was bombarded by protesters who are against Planned Parenthood and abortions. They convinced her to keep the baby. Eventually she gave birth; however, it was difficult for her to raise her newborn due to the environment that she was raised in. By giving birth to her baby, the mother now have to face with financial struggles, hardships, and her youth was taken from her. Not only is it unfair for the mother, but it is cruel to bring a child in the world without stability, financial means, and support to take care and raise the child. The third parties or the pro-life advocates will no longer be there to support her, because all they cared about was “saving” a life.

“We mourn the loss of 57 million American children that we will never meet. We will never know what they might have contributed to this world” states Serrin M. Foster. A fetus is a human being and has a right to life. Human life should be embraced as a blessing from God. Furthermore women do not realize what they are doing to themselves and their baby, and the pain they both go through is unbearable. This should not be about woman having a right to murder their own child because murder is murder no matter if it is women's right or not. As a result of abortions, there is a five to ten year period of denial in which a woman was traumatized and or have body

Should women be able to kill a poor innocent baby? In other words, should women be able to get an abortion? Some individuals are pro-choice and some people are pro-life. Pro-choice followers are individuals who think women should have the opportunity to have an abortion. Pro-life followers are people who think abortion is murder. In the 1900’s, abortion was a felony in most states. According to “State Abortion Laws,” “In 1921, activist Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which later became the organization Planned Parenthood.” In the 1960’s, women advocates raised awareness of abortions. Women informed other women that there could be a permanent injury or even death if they get an illegal abortion. “State Abortion Laws” states, “In the 1990’s, Congress passed several laws banning intact dilation and extraction (IDX), a medical procedure also known as “partial-birth abortion”, in which a fetus can be removed intact.” The article “State Abortion Laws” informs readers that abortion laws are different in many states, but most people do agree with abortion.

Since Roe v. Wade in 1973 the Nation has been divided into two schools of thought. Both sides have convincing arguments that are heard all around. The Pro-Life group believes that abortion is ultimately murder. Even if that human is not born you are killing the potential of a living homo sapien. The Pro-Choice group on the other hand looks at this not as murder but an infringement of our constitutional rights and that we are empowering women to make this a decision about their body and not to be obstructed by the government’s views.(Abortion Procon.org) Maureen Shaw is a feminist, writer, and a mother. She has wrote many articles for websites including, Quartz, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, and many others. Maureen Shaw a writer on social issues has wrote an article on how becoming a mother has “made her even more Pro-Choice.” on the website Rewire. This article describes how the conservatives in the United States and those of conventional thinking have a clouded view on why women have abortions and why they are getting abortions. Shaw’s journey into motherhood has strengthened her view on abortion and on the right-wing political ideologies to judge her motivations.