Should Abortion Be Legal?

“Well you see, this is for the safety of our doctors lives. Incase of that one of the patients reacts negatively

When they arrived at the hospital, they tell the doctor what happened: Laureen, one adolescent of sixteen years, had a knife in her hands and she was walking to her younger sister, Sophia, at that time was crying because she was hungry. Doctor was surprised and he ask, - “Laureen why were you walking to your sister with a knife?” She did not answer, she knew there was something wrong with her, she knew

1000 births mainly due to the AIDS epidemic and only 38% of the births are attended by a

Then one lady says, “She looks just like my granddaughter. I’m sure she’ll be fine.” Then she says, “You know those doctors, they just don’t want to be sued.”

country, in other words, about one in every 625 women who gave birth that year

The statistics on abortion are surprising. According to Students for Life of America, 1.1 million abortions are performed in the United states each year.51% of abortions are performed on women aged 25 and younger, and 50% of women who get abortions

I decided to go, I got out of my car and strolled towards the door. My doctor is talking to the receptionist. I guess it is because I am an hour late. I get a

In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “the Mother” the entire theme was based on abortion. A mother was not emotionally or mentally ready to have children, so she did what needed to be done; she aborted. This poem was written in 1945 and still today’s society still has objections on pro-choice. On January 22, 1973 the US Supreme Court ruled that abortion is a fundamental right that was guaranteed by the US Constitution. In short terms the ruling stated that a woman, with her doctor, could have the option to end her pregnancy. This ruling made abortion legal in the United States which seemed to be a relief for some and others a restraint. Abortion has been a controversial issue in the United States for years. There are one of two sides that can be chosen in this debate; pro-life or pro-choice. Those who believe in pro-life consider abortion as intentionally murdering a human being. In contrast to the advocates, you have the opponents, who believe abortion is not the same as murder that it is here to help not hinder a woman. Having an abortion is a huge decision to be made. The word abortion itself means to remove the fetus from the uterus before it is able to survive on its own. The question that still stirs up an audience still remains “should abortion be legal?”

A study on 2004 by the Population Resource Center found that 2.2 million new borns and children’s die each

Almost all abortions occur during the first trimester when the fetus cannot live outside of the mother’s body. People who are pro-choice believe that “at birth, a baby is a human life. At conception, it 's something, perhaps, but it 's not really a human life (McDowell).” In other words when the baby has a heart beat it is not a human life. Or when the baby is kicking inside the mother’s womb it is not a human life. The child is not a human life until it is outside of the mother’s body. In the case of rape or incest, forcing a woman made pregnant by this violent act would possibly cause further psychological harm to the victim (Lowen). More often than not the woman who was sexually assaulted is too afraid to speak up against her attacker.

Number of live births: 308 live births average per day (12.81 in an hour) in 2015.

rate as national health improves. By late of last year, 2010, the expected population was estimated to be 1.4 billion people. It was

Feminists and woman’s rights organizations have made great strides within the past century and a half. There was Susan B. Anthony, a now highly respected woman’s rights activist, who was famously arrested and charged in 1872 for voting as a form of activism for women’s suffrage. Then women’s rights groups in the 1960s successfully gained equal pay by advocating to end workplace discrimination, leading to the enactment of The Equal Pay Act of 1963. While there are many women around the world who still need these women’s rights organizations, these organizations instead focus on achieving what they say are “women’s rights” in America. A large portion of their efforts goes to what they call Reproductive Rights which are access to “safe abortions” and birth control.

Once this was completed, he was referred for lab-work as determined by the nurse and brought to a secondary waiting room before being ushered to the examination room. Everything was clean, pristine and in order. The rooms were also much larger, which I appreciated being nearly 8 months pregnant. After sometime, the doctor came through the door wearing jeans, a salmon colored t-shirt adorned by a stethoscope. Her blond, curly hair was placed in a pony-tail. “Tell me Ashley,” she called me out by name. “Do you like your husband’s penis? Because Johnathan,” she redirected her attention toward him, “If you do not get a handle on your blood sugar, your penis will turn black, lose function and will be removed. I have seen it happen! And you’re obviously a father and a husband so I would take better care of yourself.” At this she had not disclosed her name. In fact, she never told us her name. John laughed a bit, but I was appalled.

“Ashley, go call the government” the head doctor whispered quietly to the head nurse. The nurse went and called the government while the other doctors and nurses try to contain the woman while