The Death Of The Female Body

Abortion is the deliberate killing of the weakest and most defenseless among us. Unfortunately, for the last few decades, the practice has been recognized as a fundamental human right by the highest court of the land. American culture has become increasingly accepting of traditional values and principles being compromised. Political correctness now replaces ethics, self-reliance is replaced by dependency, and crudeness now takes the place of knowledgeability. Today’s culture is corrupt and morally depraved, and there is no other topic that demonstrates this better than abortion.

The issue of abortion has always been a controversial one for citizens of the United States. Abortion is the practice of terminating a pregnancy after the embryo has been planted in the uterus (Abortion). An individual’s stance on this controversial issue categorizes them into one of two very different groups. An individual who feels that a woman should not have an abortion- due to moral or religious views- is said to be “pro-life”. Coincidently, those who feel that a woman should have the right to choose abortion are said to be “pro-choice”. “Pro-life” supporters point to the practice of abortion as an immoral one. Supporters state abortion is immoral because it takes away the rights of the unborn fetus, since activists consider human

In a time fraught with hot button issues, one that polarizes perhaps more than any other is that of abortion. Unfortunately, it is also an issue that is difficult to write about while remaining unbiased. Paul Stark’s “How Abortion Hurts Women” and Sarah Barnes’ “The Long Term Effects of Abortion on Women” both set out to prove that abortion has serious side effects on the affected party. Both Stark and Barnes cite several studies done in both America and abroad to support their claims, as well as, in Barnes case, offering their own insights on the matter. It seems that both authors purpose is to enlighten their audiences on the under-reported effects of abortion on women in order to spark a new conversation that doesn’t center around the unborn

Abortion policy has been shifting throughout American history as American views have simultaneously transitioned from more conservative to more liberal. Doctors, specifically regular physicians, have surprisingly guided the discussion surrounding abortion in the most influential way. Their power, in particular, their medical expertise, has allowed them to take hold of the issue and push against abortion from a medical stance. As a result of the change in traditionalistic views, the power the doctors held for a long time was taken by women, and abortion simultaneously became not an issue of health, but one questioning morality as well as a woman’s right to choose: pro-life and pro-choice. In America, abortion policy has transitioned from an issue of health and morality to one of women’s rights over time due to the power shifting from doctors to women as a result of modernization and the change in how Americans saw religion; this shift in turn impacting how the abortion issue’s sides are defined and how the issue is argued.

have been organizing and lobbying local, state and federal government to restrict abortion. Not only that, but they have also lobbied evangelical voters to gain support. That puts politicians in a tight spot, either work against abortion or leave politics. (1) So far, 18 states require abortion procedures done at hospitals, and Wisconsin requires it done no closer than 30 minutes away from a

This article documents the Republicans in the Iowa legislature creating public policy on abortion based on the Christian worldview. Life is sacred under the Christian worldview. As such any laws that allow for the taking of an innocent life, such as a child’s, are illegal and immoral. Therefore “Christians must come to the children’s defense, and Christians must come to the defense of human life as such.” The article reports on the broader effort in other State Legislatures across the country to restrict and ultimately end the practice of

Religion appeals to one's sense of affective socialization by encouraging puritan values and morals supported by the church. The highly inviolable issue of abortion parleys condemnation by the Catholic Church against the advocating for women's rights by pro-choice groups. Catholics, while the strongest advocates, do not stand alone on this issue, as many religions preach abortion is the murder of a child. By relating a medical procedure to murder, people are emotionally affected, and instead of thinking rationally, resort to emotions to defend their stance.

Every year, as many as a million lives are aborted; lives that could potentially have been your neighbor, your friend, or even your son or daughter. Abortion is the surgical process of killing a baby by various means; and has been in effect since the Supreme Court ruling on Roe V. Wade in 1973 which legalized it nationwide. It was, at first, endorsed as being a woman’s right, but has more recently been viewed by most as the murder of an innocent child. Besides this shift in views, abortion has caused diverse effects on our culture and nation, as well as the death of upwards of 56 million children according to Life News. Our society has been deeply impacted by the effects of abortion and the loss of millions of innocent lives, and Christian

While the history component is important in understanding the future of abortion in the United States, an examination of the varying ideological arguments is paramount as well.

The belief that the country is extremely polarized on abortion is not true. Figure 5.5 explains how the people who belong to a church versus those who do not differ less on the issue of abortion that stereotypes would suggest. According to the graph on page 87, the difference between those who attend church regularly, about once a month, or less show a difference of about two circumstances, suggesting that abortion is not just a “religious war”.

Specifically, reproductive rights have faced a lot of backlash and backtracking in the past few years, as well as have become a major topic since the campaigns for the 2016 presidential election began. Beyond the candidates themselves, the opinions surrounding reproductive rights - specifically in reference to abortions - are divided greatly between liberal and conservative states, with liberal states more apt to be in favor and upholding of abortion rights, and conservative states more prominently standing against abortions. Regardless of the jeopardy that women’s reproductive rights are in due to the upcoming presidential election, the more pressing matter for

When you tell a toddler that they can’t have a cookie, even though they initially did not care about whether or not they could consume the cookie, suddenly they cannot stop thinking about that cookie they can no longer have. This is natural human response occurs in adults as well as children. So as you would expect, although 47% of women have declared themselves pro-choice (Saad "Americans Misjudge U.S. Abortion Views"), according to a study in 2011, only 1.7% of women aged 15–44 had an abortion (Jones and Jerman "Abortion Incidence and Service Availability In the United States, 2011"). These statistics show that even though most women who support the pro-choice movement are unlikely to have an abortion, they still believe that those women who choose to have an abortion should have the right to make a decision for her own body. A woman should have the right to make choices for her own body because separation of church and state prevents religion from being used as a way to limit women 's rights and no one, especially not men or the government, is as qualified as a medical professional when it comes to making medical recommendations and diagnostics. Even though there could be an argument that fetal personhood is subjective based on religion as to whether or not abortion can be considered murder, philosopher, Immanuel Kant can dispute that argument with his moral theory on what makes someone human.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that decisions about reproductive options of individuals are free of government interference (Roe v. Wade). Furthermore, the statement was made that, “even if the fetus is a person, because it is not a born person, it is not covered by Constitutional protections in general, or the Fourteenth Amendment in particular” (McDonagh, 2005, p. 23). In 2012, when Representative Todd Akin, Republican of Missouri, commented to a St. Louis television station on pregnancy as a result of rape band stated that women who are victims of “legitimate rape” rarely get pregnant, first, he rejected science as a legitimate discipline. Obstetricians and gynecologists called absurd his assertion about some biological reason preventing women from getting pregnant during a rape (Belluck, 2012). Even President Obama made clear during his news conference, that “rape is rape, and the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about doesn’t make sense…” (Kane & and Henderson, 2012). He also added that “we shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health-care decisions on behalf of women”

Even though many people practice pro-life because of their religion, it may be surprising to learn that catholic women are 29% more likely to get an abortion than Protestant women, though they are as likely as all women to do so2. In Christianity abortion has been considered homicide since Pope Sixtus V declared it so, but the debate didn’t become heated until the 19th century1. So even these pro-life supporters sometimes find the circumstances where abortion is necessary. An example of a situation where you may see this is in a given situation where bearing a child and giving birth would kill the mother because of health issues or womb complications the fetus would have. It’s said that the risks of death associated with childbirth is 10 times higher than

In the case entitled “Conceived in Violence, Born in Hate”, a twenty-seven year old woman was gagged, bound, and raped by a man, which left her pregnant. The woman then decided that she wanted to abort the fetus. Though it was not necessarily illegal, no physician would carry out the abortion. Her only options were to travel to have a legal abortion- which they could not afford- or have an illegal abortion. The woman and her husband then decided to carry through with the pregnancy because they were law abiding and they were deeply religious. The woman claimed she hated the fetus and was going to give up the child as soon as it was born. Republicans supported abortion in cases of rape and incest, but changed their view to eliminating all abortions.