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Satire On Abortion

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Abortions: You Should Have a Choice!
Imagine someone told you that you could only to wear a certain pair of jeans. Someone else decided for you whether or not you can wear any other pair of pants. How would that make you feel, how would you react? What if those circumstances involved a baby and someone said you had to carry and give birth to it even if you don’t want to. Society has benefitted through the access government approved abortions clinics giving women the opportunity to overcome teenage pregnancy, significantly reducing health risks, and defeating after effects of rape.
Abortions for all women must be legal because women should be able to decide what they want to do with their bodies. Women are constantly being denied abortions …show more content…

"...Women who were denied abortions 'Felt more regret and anger' and 'less relief and happiness' than women who had abortions” (“Should Abortion”). This proves that being denied an abortion when needed or wanted can have devastating consequences on a woman's mental health. Women in these situations felt helpless and probably do not know what to do with their future. Finally, abortions give women the opportunity to not deliver a baby when it is revealed that it has a deadly or incurable disease. Fetuses can have anencephaly where the brain doesn't grow, limb–body wall complex where are the organs grow outside of the body, and Down Syndrome. "'Many couples... don't have the resources, don't have the emotional stamina, don't have the family support!' [to raise a child with Down syndrome]."
This entails, women should have the opportunity to decide if they want to go through the mental and physical exhaustion of having a baby with disabilities such as Down Syndrome or anencephaly, both of these diseases also cost a plethora of money, something not all families have. In conclusion, every one of these problems could have been solved with the access of safe abortion clinics. Mothers shouldn't go to the extent of a clothes hanger to have an abortion, be mentally traumatized from the pregnancy they do not want, and if parents don't want a disabled child that is their choice not to

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