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.

Women should not be able to make decisions about how to live their lives. Clearly, by the looks of the statistics, with approximately 42 million abortions a year, women are foolish. Women should not have the option of deciding when or whether to have children. They do this by making choices regarding when to have sexual intercourse and what contraceptive methods to use. The government should have all the power to make these decisions. Abortion reflects a women's value, her family, and her career.

The United States Government should fund women's health care programs which supports reproductive health, safety against unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, and if needed, abortions. More and more facilities such as Planned Parenthood, those who help women looking for abortions, are being shut down because of lack of funds. Melissa Reed, president & CEO of Planned Parenthood Keystone, said March 13 that the life terminating business “has made the difficult strategic decision to consolidate health services by closing two centers located in Easton and Bristol to reduce the costs of duplication associated with running two sites in close proximity to others.”(life site) The government should fund abortions because if a woman wants to do it then she should have the right. They can't control other people's bodies.

The Family Research Council stated that “abortion is not a health care issue”(web.b.ebschohost2017). The FRC also argued that as long as the government continues to pay for abortions that they will not only continue to happen, but will increase in numbers (web.b.schohost). News publishers such as the Washington Times have called this the “Lifesaving amendment” (Washinngtontimes2017). In a poll taken by American’s in regards to tax payer’s dollars going towards paying for abortions, sixty one percent of people, stated that they are opposed to it (CITE). In a speech composed by Republican Smith, he stated that since the Hyde Amendment was passed, that over two million lives have been saved (bing2017).

Millions of taxpayer dollars are going to fund Planned Parenthood. With the introduction of Obamacare, Planned Parenthood has become a secondary cost to ensure women have health care throughout the United States. Along with the wasted money being spent on Planned Parenthood, other issues have been revealed about Planned Parenthood. The high cost of administration and the sale of fetus tissue and organs have become the latest in an agency out of control. Because of the wasteful administration of funds and ethical questions about disposing of fetuses, Planned Parenthood should no longer be funded by the Federal government.

According to Bryce Covert and Mike Konczal’s article, “Born, Not Free,” the government funds constitute about $500 million of the $1.1 billion total Planned Parenthood receives in funding. However, the money coming from the government cannot legally be used towards the administration of abortion, which is the main topic of controversy. Politicians who are in favor of defunding argue that by giving money to the facility whose services are in part constituted by abortion, those funds are essentially being given in support of abortions. On the contrary, though Planned Parenthood has come to be known as a symbol for abortion, abortion constitutes only 3% of the services provided. According to Nancy Gibbs, a managing editor for TIME magazine, the other 97% is made up of “family planning, immunizations and screening for cancer and sexually transmitted diseases” (Gibbs). Due to the funding from the government, Planned Parenthood is able to provide the aforementioned inexpensive yet crucial services to women. $500 million dollars is a small price to pay to ensure the health and wellbeing of half of the population of the United States of America. Also, even though abortion is only a small part Planned Parenthood, a woman is able to have the procedure done safely and without further damage to her physical welfare. To conclude, Planned Parenthood is able to vastly improve women’s overall health through its facilities, like cancer screenings and family planning. However,

The largest provider of abortions is Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is an organization help people get contraception, plan for families, reproductive problems, and give abortion. This organization use to be funded by taxpayer money. If abortion is a choice, then why did people who don’t agree with it still have to pay it? By defunding Planned Parenthood, the money that was going towards it, will now be put towards other nonprofit health facilities. These facilities will offer much of the same services that Planned Parenthood does, but excluding abortions. Women and men will be able to receive free contraceptives without insurance, and care for STIs. Abortions through Planned Parenthood cost nothing for the woman, which means the way abortions are paid for is by taxpayer money. The first-trimester abortion pills cost $475 without insurance, and no insurance company in Iowa covers abortions (“Abortion In Obamacare”). For surgical abortions, the cost depends on how far along the pregnancy is, but usually that cost is from three-hundred dollars to over one-thousand dollars (Fisher). With the cost being so expensive, and the taxpayer money paying for the abortions, they should become illegal, so the expense is not

The clinic’s that provide abortion services, that receive federal funding from the government, are the main targets of defunding because of the service they offer. However, it can be seen in the cases of Planned Parenthood, a non-profit health care facility that offer’s it services to anyone, that threats of defunding are based off the assumption that the facility is only known for abortion services. Planned Parenthood accepts government offered insurance like Medicaid or Title X. When it comes to abortion services, Planned Parenthood has made it well known on multiple occasions to political representatives that it relies on private donations where those funds go towards abortions; Therefore, no federal currency is allocated to abortion services

As Frederica Mathewes-Green once said, “No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.” Abortion itself bears a questionable morality, but I believe all women should have the option. I also believe Planned Parenthood should be funded by the government. The legalization of abortion and the formation of Planned Parenthood have proven to benefit crime rates, the economy, and women’s health and civil rights.

The Severity of Abortion and its Role in the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act

Abortion has been a very controversial issue in the United States for the past several decades. Many people think that is it morally wrong. To say that something is morally wrong is an opinion. Since everyone’s opinions are different on this topic there have been many court cases and protests against abortion. However there are a lot of people out there that believe that abortion is a rightful decision. My personal opinion on the abortion controversy is that every woman should have the choice on whether or not they are ready or are capable of raising a baby. Although there are many different choices one can make with regard to whether or not they are ready to raise a child, like adoption, it is still ultimately the woman’s decision on what they want to do. Carrying a child is a very stressful and sometimes painful process. There are a lot of financial decisions, health decisions, and future decisions that have to be carefully thought out before becoming a parent. Parenthood is a life-altering step one must take in life, and abortion is one way that a women can postpone or avoid changing their life in a very extreme way.

A person wrote a letter to the editor in “The News-Sentinel”, saying that insurance should cover women who want to go out and have babies. On the other hand, this person wants women who want to have an abortion to come up with the money themselves and that the government or insurance should not cover abortions (“The Rant,” 2009). Many believe that some women use abortions as a form of birth control. For women who find themselves in that situation, the expense for those types of abortions should be paid for by those women. However, in certain cases such as incest, rape, genetics, failed birth control and endangerment to the life of the expectant mother. Those situations should be covered by insurance.

For nowadays, the justification of abortion because of economic reasons is just heinous. Unfortunately, many people is in this case. The mother just do not have the correct  way  to raise a child on their own and they see abortion is the solution.Now while this concluding paragraph may sound like I am for the pro-choice   side of abortion, I am definitely for the pro-life side of abortion from a depressive realist mentality. Abortion is a terrible thing but people tend to do crazy things when they are desperate. The sad truth is that the United States needs to keep abortion legalized. If it was not for abortion being legalized, the amount of “homemade” abortions would skyrocket, along with that, the number of accidental deaths from performing

Carol Everett once said “The product abortion, is skillfully marketed and sold to the women at a crisis time in her life. She buys the product, finds it defective and wants to return it for a refund, but it is too late.” Abortion is one of the most controversial topics amongst not only politicians but also every human being alive; rather they are pro-choice or pro-life. I am personally in between; I believe that is the choice of that particular woman. We can not as a society decide the choices of others, especially if it is not a written law. But also I believe that it is murder. It was in 1973 when the Roe v Wade case abolished all laws prohibiting abortion.

Just because a woman acted foolishly and carelessly does not mean that an innocent third party, the child, should have to accept the punishment for their mother’s actions. Another alarming statistic is that twenty-two percent of all pregnancies in the United States end in abortion (U.S. Abortion Statistics). Many of these abortions occur from people who live below the poverty level and cannot afford proper birth control. While abortion has been decreasing among most groups of categories that are determined by characteristics such as age, race, and financial income; abortions among poor people have been on the rise. In 2008, poor women were responsible for forty-two percent of all abortions that took place in the United States. Likewise, the abortion rate of poor women escalated by eight-teen percent from 2000-2008 (Wind). This problem can be solved by providing more heath care clinics through the country for those individuals who cannot afford birth control. With more available heath care clinics, the amount of abortions that occur will be diminished significantly and wrongful killing of unborn children will come to an end.