The Abortion Debate

The issue of Abortions has been a controversy for years now. There are two main groups for this problem, Pro-Life, and Pro-Choice. Pro-Life supports the human rights of life should be embraced, by religion and ethics. Pro-choice is when someone wants to make this choice without no remorse of human life, but because someone wants no part of it raising one.

When women decide to terminate a pregnancy, they are disturbed for a long time due to knowing they are killing a child. This does not necessarily faze them until after the procedure is done. Many years after, women will need to get counselling because they know in their hearts the right thing to do.

The issue of abortion is one of the most controversial topics of our time, but recently the amount of public interest has grown exponentially. A number of bills regarding this policy issue such as Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015 and Child Interstate Notification Act have both greatly influenced the public’s opinion of abortion. Although, the issue of abortion hasn’t always been like this; according to Timeline of Abortion Laws and Events, an article from the Chicago Tribune, “The earliest anti-abortion laws were intended to protect women from untrained abortionists.” (Timeline) Since the 1973 passing of the Supreme Court Case, Roe V Wade, women have been able to obtain the abortion procedure in all 50 states, 46 of which were

Since the 1960s, the fight to receive accessible and affordable abortions has been a largely controversial issue in the United States. The case Roe v. Wade was the climax of that fight, for “the Court held that... only a pregnant woman and her doctor have the legal right to make the decision about an abortion” (“History of Abortion”). Although Roe v. Wade ultimately made abortions legal in the States, there are still setbacks for affordable and accessible abortions today, and many of these conflicts may be directly traced to state-by-state determination of abortion laws.

Although abortion has been a very controversial issue throughout history, I will inform you on the recent law and policy in which has developed over the past forty years. Beginning in the early seventies, the famous Roe v. Wade decision began the controversial segregation of the right to abortion. The decision stated that “women, in consultation with their physician, have the right to have an abortion in the early stages of pregnancy.” (“Induced Abortion in the United States,” July 2014). Roughly twenty years later, and in the early nineties, the Planned Parenthood v. Casey readdressed the policy of abortion and gave the states more power to assist

The abortion controversy in America is of broad and current interest as a result of the newly sworn in President, Donald Trump. American’s emotions are stirring due to the the United States republican-dominated Congress quickly fabricating bills opposing abortion for Donald Trump to swiftly approve. Following Donald Trump’s inauguration, millions of Americans bound together for the Women’s March. Protesters stormed the streets to revolt against the inevitable injustices inflicted upon women’s reproductive rights. Historically abortion has been an ongoing debate since 1821, when the first recorded law pertaining abortion was ratified. The United States government continues to maintain an influence on women’s reproductive rights

Today women’s rights groups protest and lobby the law that prohibits a female to have an abortion after she is 20 weeks pregnant. The anti-abortion parties and religious groups will continue to lobby against the legalization of abortions and fight to make them illegal for any reasons. The lobbying and fight for legal and safe abortions and access to birth control for women in America may be on pause now, but will continue to be an ongoing battle with the opposing

In the past few decades, the issue of abortion rights has created debates and controversy within the United States. Those who criticize the act of abortion – pro-life – argue that the act of abortion is equivalent to the murder of a baby. Those who support the legalization of abortion – pro-choice – argues women should be able to choose whether or not they want to have an abortion. Currently, abortion is legal in all states – a result of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe vs. Wade. However, it has become increasingly common for states to create anti-abortion laws, which makes it more difficult to have an abortion. In 2014, Missouri state representative Rick Brattin proposed H.B.131, a house bill that would require women to receive a written consent from the biological father in order to have an abortion. This bill serves to prevent women from having an abortion.

Having an abortion is something you have to be very sure about, and once their mindset is on not bearing the child, many mothers will go to any length to prevent it whether it is legal or not. Illegal or self induced abortions became insanely popular in the 1950s and 60s where it was estimated that between 200,000 and 1.2 million illegal abortions were documented, not counting the unknown or self performed. This was a huge health problem in the medical field, as the abortions were being performed unsafely with health hazards, untrained amateurs, and no post abortion care. The even scarier option, is the self induced abortions, which included tons of methods of whatever the mother could get her hands on, the most popular being taking herbs and poisons, or even by inserting sharp objects into the vagina. The coat hanger was the most popular option and became the symbol of illegal abortion. What was so dangerous about self inducing miscarriages is that half the time it wouldn’t work leaving the woman with a injured, physically disabled, or mentally challenged child, causing it to be even harder to pay and care for the kid, and overall worsening the situation. Women were countlessly rushed to the hospital for illegally trying to get rid of unwanted children they could not provide for, and while law enforcement tried to crack down on the

The purpose of this paper is to show how the states are creating laws to try and prohibit abortions and how these laws are putting unnecessary hardships on the women trying to receive them.

At 13 weeks into her pregnancy, 29-year-old Jessica Smith lost her 5th baby, lifesitenews states. “I expected to be handed a blob that early into pregnancy. But instead, I was handed a perfectly formed tiny baby. He had perfectly formed fingers and toes. He had tiny, completely identifiable ears, nose, and mouth,” Jessica Smith told lifesitenews. According to Procon, abortion is one of the most debated topics in the United States (Procon).  Planned Parenthood states, there are two different ways a woman can undergo an abortion, the abortion pill, or an in-clinic abortion. The pill only works up to ten weeks into a pregnancy. The doctor will give a woman her first pill in the clinic, and anywhere from six to 48 hours later, a woman can take the second one at home. There are two different types of in-clinical abortions. A suction abortion is used for a pregnancy anywhere between ten and 16 weeks. It uses suction to empty the uterus. Dilation and evacuation is used for a pregnancy anytime after 16 weeks and involves suction, and medical tools to empty a woman’s uterus (Planned Parenthood). Abortion results in terminating an unwanted pregnancy and should be illegal worldwide.

So, you’re pregnant, now what? Now you must decide what is best for you and your fetus. Do you want to be a parent, should you give your child up for adoption, will your child be born healthy or do you simply wish you could turn back time and make a different choice? Many women ask themselves these questions when they find out that they are pregnant, while other women are forced to choose between their life or the life of their unborn child. It is never an easy or a quick decision to make, and despite what people may think, no woman wants to have an abortion. Yet so many people are quick to judge and assume that they know what’s best for the fetus and its incubator.

When a mother-to-be comes into the Center who does desire an abortion she is counseled about alternatives and then encouraged to have an ultrasound. This is free service to the Center's

Population control comes in many forms: cancer, famine, A.I.D.S, genocide, war and natural disasters, but never has one been so celebrated and socially accepted before abortion. Abortion has been practiced for hundreds of years and medical technology has advanced accordingly; providing a safer and much more sanitary procedure for the women receiving the operation, but the result remains the same for the defenseless child. Abortion continues to be one of the most debated and country dividing topics this nation has seen. In the recent past, there has been steady movement towards the governmental restrictions on abortion. The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 was one of the greatest victories in Congress related to this topic. The ban restricts an individual form of abortion (partial-birth abortion) past 24 weeks from conception (United States Congress). Even though this is a positive step in the right and moral direction, the act needs to be revised. It needs to have the allotted time reduced from 24 weeks to 20 weeks based on new medical research that fetuses can “feel pain” prior to 24 weeks. Abortion will never become completely illegal (that is just harsh reality), but the restrictions that govern abortions can be fine-tuned to incorporate a smaller and more humane window for abortions.

Once the person gets pregnant there are three options on how to proceed: 1- continue with the pregnancy and raise the baby, 2-continue with the pregnancy and create an adoption plan to allow someone else to raise the child, 3- end the pregnancy by having an abortion (acog.org). Finner and Zolna demonstrate that, based on National Center for Health Statistics’ findings on pregnancies; in 2006, 3.2 million (nearly