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Should Abortion Be Considered Murder?

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Although abortions are an expression of freedom for women to choose what happens to their body, some argue that it is taking one’s life away and should be considered murder. It’s easy to say that an unborn child has no opinion nonetheless there is still controversy on whether abortions should be banned or not. The option to terminate has been active since 1973, in the Roe V. Wade court case, when abortion was enacted and protected by the Fourteenth Amendment (though in many states there are restrictions, consequently causing more protest). Some women use this opportunity when there is a posed threat to the mother’s life or to the unborn child, meanwhile others use it for social reasons like being too young, not feeling ready, and so on. …show more content…

Patients may experience regret, shame and depression. Studies have found that between forty and sixty percent of a group of women who had recently acquired an abortion reported negative feelings eight weeks later: “55 percent expressed guilt, 44 percent complained of nervous disorders, 36 percent had experienced sleep disturbances, 31 percent had regrets about their decision, and 11 percent had been prescribed psychotropic medicine by their family doctor” (Psychological). These negative feelings evoke new behaviors in some like avoiding situations that would cause her to talk about and or defend her termination, emotional instability (which may end up requiring therapy), and even drug or alcohol abuse. They might try to make up for the loss with another baby however she may face the same feelings of the previous pregnancy and as a result receive another abortion. It then becomes a cycle of regret and fear (Abortions). On the other hand, Decision Rightness and Emotional Responses to Abortion in the United States: A Longitudinal Study explains that a greater part of the patients within three years of receiving an abortion decided that it was the right thing to do (Rocca). They might feel relief from not having to deal with the responsibility of being the mother to this child or felt they have alleviated it from what they believe would have been an unhappy …show more content…

It is free of charge unlike abortion and women fail to understand that adoption can be confidential, if desired. Adoption has resulted in millions of unbearing, happy couples and families who were able to give a home to a child. There are still millions who would love to adopt but the option of abortion makes it more difficult. Those who favor adoption claim that by choosing to carry out the pregnancy toward adopting, they will have given their child a second chance in the arms of a loving family. (Adoptions). Women defending abortion say that adoption makes it harder if the mother is in imperative conditions during the pregnancy it’s not worth the risk to give birth. It also causes a great deal of guilt for the mother to know that the child will soon understand that at one time in their life they were not wanted and to know that it’s her fault that they are not

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