Should Abortion Be Legal?

Pro- choice counters this with stating abortion that it should be a fundamental right and fetuses are incapable of feeling pain when abortion is performed. It is argued any moment or reactions seen in fetuses when they detect pain are more of a reflex not actual proof that the fetus feels anything. (McDonough, 2013) Even though the spinal cortex is needed to feel pain, neuroscientists believe that it does become functional until at least 26 weeks if development. At this stage in the child’s development it is rare abortion happens. The choice should still be left in the mother’s hand, for it her body and her control over her productive

Texas is a key state when it comes to looking at abortion policy, and the laws surrounding it. The fight for a women’s right of choice regarding her body came about in Texas in 1969 with the supreme court case regarding a women’s right to an abortion. Now, in 2016 the state of Texas continues to fight with congress regarding issues surrounding women obtaining an abortion. The HB2 bill, which people from all over the country are fighting both for, and against, is in the eye of the camera as Texas implements some of the strictest rules yet regarding who, when, where, and how abortions can be performed.

Furthermore, abortion is seen as murder by many individuals (reason #7). I strongly agree with this statement even if fetuses supposedly can’t feel pain but that is still killing an individual’s own child. Although, if the doctor tells you the baby wont be born healthy (brain dead or deformed) then you can get an abortion (reason #6). This is a situation that is possible, but people should not abort there own baby based on the assumption that it could be deformed.

In cases where the baby cannot survive outside of the mother and the mother’s health is in danger, the state has the right to protect the health of the mother and may regulate the procedure. The Justices debated over what should be the timeframe of when aborting can happen. Some suggested up till the point of viability, abortions can occur. others said at the end of the first trimester. However, both are ambiguous and arbitrary, so they proposed abandoning frameworks based on the age of the fetus and instead allowing states to regulate the procedure based on its safety for the

Abortion has been a highly debated topic in the United States for many years. Contrary to the belief of some people, life begins at conception when a sperm fertilizes an egg according to Princeton University’s Margerie England. If life begins at conception, abortion should be considered murder. How can society permit the taking of a precious human life without consequences? An astonishing 1.06 million babies were killed in the United States alone in 2011. This major issue must be talked about no matter how uncomfortable it may be. Nearly every American will be affected, almost always negatively, by abortion sometime in their life. Abortion should be illegal and the Roe v. Wade court case should be overturned.

Fetal pain is very difficult to prove or disprove because of its subjective nature. Some argue that the fetus cannot feel pain until the 24th week of gestation because connections from the periphery to the cortex are not available until then (Derbyshire, 2015). By contrast, others say fetal pain is possible before 24 weeks on the basis that the fetus has a mechanism to detect noxious events and will respond to noxious events by withdrawing and grimacing (Derbyshire, 2015). The American Medical Association go even further that those two assumptions and state that pain perception in preterm neonates probably does not exist before 29 or 30 weeks (Arora & Salazar, 2014). Although no definitive conclusion is reached, fetal pain is a big factor that influences the abortion debate. As of 2016, there are 12 states that actively ban abortion after 20 weeks citing fetal pain (Fantz, 2016). They include Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota,

Texas continues to fight women’s rights groups for the life of the “unborn child” and has won on many levels. According to the Texas Abortion Laws, Texas includes mandatory ultrasound imaging and parental consent for minors, and women must make at least four visits to a doctor and receive an ultrasound. Women may only receive a third trimester abortion if it is necessary to prevent death or substantial risk of serious impairment to a women’s physical or mental health, or if fetus has severe and irreversible abnormality. Texas considers an illegal abortion if it destroys the vitality or life of child in birth or before (which otherwise would have been born alive); operating a facility without a license, failure to meet Board of Health standards, or failure to make reports to Department of Health; act preformed after pregnancy with intent to cause termination of pregnancy other than for purpose of birth of live fetus or removal

A recent bill was passed in Texas by Gov. Rick Perry which was one of the country toughest restriction on abortion. According to the Texas House Bill, abortion will be banned after 20 weeks of pregnancy. A woman is a minor unless proof can be provided to verify her age. This is to be followed properly by all the health clinics and abortion clinics

Another major issue regarding abortion is if a fetus feels pain. A study by Stuart G. W. Derbyshire examines the development of the fetus to decode when pain is acknowledged. Pain is “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage” (Derbyshire, 2006, The Content of Pain). Working with this definition, one can derive that an understanding of the senses and emotions should be present at some cognitive level to feel pain. Therefore, pain becomes a learned response instead of a natural one because the association between the senses and the reaction is not yet learned. “This is likely to strike anyone as strange because it is simply not how we intuitively believe pain to be… Not only has the biological development not yet occurred to support pain experience, but the environment after birth, so necessary to the development of pain

Since the legalization of abortion, more than 126,000 abortions have been performed every day and more than 46,000,000 each year (AbortionTV). One may say they can’t understand how a mother can just kill her child because of her irresponsibility. She may rebuttal back with the answer that the fetus is not yet human and it wouldn’t feel any pain anyway. Studies show that the

The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is very necessary because an unborn baby has developed the full potential to feel pain by the age of just 20 weeks. By then, their nervous system is developed enough to feel and receive pain. If it is decided that a child has to be aborted, then it has to be done before the child reaches this stage. Thus, a physician must determine the probable age of the unborn child so ensure that it will not be able to feel any pain whatsoever. Unborn babies are actually more sensitive to pain than adults are due to their vulnerable state, meaning that the child undergoes an extreme amount of pain due to this. There are 3 ways that a child is aborted at 20 weeks, and they are all very painful. These ways are having

Many people think that it is absolutely okay to abort their children because they thinks that it is just an undeveloped lump of meat that cannot feel. Sadly, this isn’t true. Anatomical studies have documented that the unborn babies will have his/her body pain network - the spinothalamic pathways developed in the first 20 weeks. Their brain has cells that could receive pain signals from the body. ‘There is no question that abortion is a dreadfully painful experience for any infant subject to such a surgical procedure’ said Robert J. White, M.D., professor of neurosurgery, Case Western University. There are a few ways to kill the fetus at 20 weeks. Partial birth abortion is where the baby is delivered feet first and its head will be punctured

A common debate in the world today involves abortion, the deliberate end of human pregnancy, and whether or not it should be legalized. “Every year in the world there are an estimated 40-50 million abortions. This corresponds to approximately 125,000 abortions per day” (“Abortions Worldwide this Year”). On one side of the argument, people are not disturbed by this grotesque number, and on the other side there are people outraged and simply appalled. Although people attempt to deem abortion acceptable in society because of circumstances like the mother not being able to support the child or in instances of rape, it is still morally wrong.

The rate of abortion in the United States has been increasing rapidly since 1973, with an estimated total of over 55 million abortions. Research also shows that more Americans now commit abortion for less important reasons than rape of incest since the legalization-approximately 93% of the women who carry out abortion explain that they do it for “social reasons”. However, National Right to Life Committee(NRLC) provides some normative claims as to why should not be legalized as the rhetoric of their argument. The members of this organization explain the similarities between abortion and murder; the diary of an unborn child and the pains that they face during abortion. They also present some scientific theories that relate to pregnancy and life. According to science, as soon as fertilization takes place in a woman’s body, a new life begins; the heart begins to beat

Abortion is a deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. There are series of legal, moral and ethical issues which may arise about abortion. Most arguments about abortion are often focused on political insinuations and the legal aspect of such actions. Some frequently asked questions’ regarding the issue is if the practice should be outlawed and regarded as murder or should women have the right to practice it. For example, prior to becoming pregnant, some women feel that they would be able to choose the abortion option without trouble. However, even with reasons why having an abortion would be the best option, some women feel that this decision would not be right for them. On the other hand, some women have a strong belief that abortion is unethical prior to becoming pregnant.