The Importance Of Teen Abortion

Today, teen pregnancy is as high as ever. Shows like “16 and Pregnant” and “The Secret Life of an American Teenager” are centered on young girls’ journeys as teen moms, in hopes that viewers will become more aware about safe sex preventing teen pregnancy. Reducing teen pregnancy also reduces the rate of abortions. Teenagers are the ones who are most likely to get an abortion, since they are the ones that are the least prepared to be mothers. Regardless of their reasoning, abortion is an option that allows not just teens, but all women who are not ready or do not want a child. However, many are against abortion since they see it as killing a baby or taking away a potential life. According to writer Steven Ertelt of LifeNews.com, Oklahoma’s abortion laws are restrictive compared to other states especially with the passage of the Oklahoma Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act, or HB 1721, in April 2015, which bans dismemberment abortions that tear babies limb from limb. Any abortion practitioners that breaks this law would face a fine of $10,000 and a few years in prison. This act is a big step towards saving more potential lives, shining light on the abortion process, and is a stepping stone for other states.

In today 's society, the rate of teen pregnancy is rapidly decreasing. This may be attributed to decrease in costs of contraception, costs and availability for abortion, and better sex education over time. “In 2014, a total of 249,078 babies were born to women aged 15–19 years, for a birth rate of 24.2 per 1,000 women in this age group.This is another historic low for U.S. teens and a drop of 9% from 2013. Birth rates fell 11% for women aged 15–17 years and 7% for women aged 18–19 years” ("About Teen Pregnancy"). Abortion is a highly debated topic today, for many wonder if the woman should have the right to choose. Those who choose to get an abortion are practically putting themselves on trial in today 's society. To understand why this is so, one must look at both sides of the abortion issue, and compare the facts. Abortion is an extremely controversial issue for many, and polarized, or split, into pro-life

Abortion should not be performed because of the parents’ irresponsibility. According www.operationrescue.org, half of all United States pregnancies are unintended. Four out of ten of unintended pregnancies end in abortion. Approximately 1.21 million abortions happen each year in the United States, so that is about 3,000 abortions each day. About one million teenagers become pregnant each year. This led to an increase in teen abortion. 78% of the teen pregnancy are unintended and 35% choose to have abortion then care for the child It is common

Going to court to get a waiver is not feasible for minors and not enough information on how to do so is given; “In order to be constitutional, laws mandating parental involvement must allow teens to go to court to request a waiver of the requirement. But forcing young women who cannot turn to their parents to go to court and to reveal the details of their private lives to strangers causes them extraordinary fear, anxiety, and shame. Many teens are too scared of going to court and talking to a judge to make this a real alternative” (ACLU). The emotional stress deters minors from obtaining an abortion and a judicial bypass can also be very difficult to acquire. For example, a minor in Massachusetts who was intending to obtain an abortion was exposed when her sister’s civics class appeared at the courthouse, or in Minnesota, anti-abortion activists used high school yearbooks to identify minors in court who are trying to obtain a waiver for abortion (ACLU). There is no protection against exposing a minor’s personal decision and a judicial bypass does not successfully protect her from knowledge spreading. Going to the court and waiting for a decision can create substantial delays for a minor and can increase the risk of the procedure. The price of abortion increase as the pregnancy goes on and the delays that the judicial bypass imposes can cause an

Abortion is one of the most talked about topics in teenage pregnancies. When researching abortion, you find many different view points and ideas to the situation. Some of the more obvious view points are those that are well known such as pro-life and Pro-Choice. Although people have abortions they don’t understand the side affects that come along with them.

How can a child make the decision for the life of another child by themselves? In this paper I will outline the mental, physical, and safety issues of minors (age 18 and under) having an abortion and why it is so important that they need to get parental consent before making this life long decision.

The fact that it is not legalized in some states makes it hard for women and teenagers who would like to procure abortion to do so safely. This has led to severe consequences on the side of the women. It is estimated that unsafe abortion accounts for

Seeing how high the number of abortion is, it is the job of a public health official to provide both women and men with the education and necessary resources to make decisions about their sexual behavior. In 2010, 18% of majority of pregnancies in our nation sadly ended in an abortion. Even though this study was on such a wide age range, the 20s have been found to consistently majority of the abortions. It is key to keep observing the adolescent pregnancies and abortion rate. In hopes that with the education and the resources help the influence of abortions to decrease. From Abortion Surveillance, public health officials are able to observe changes, evaluate pregnancy rates, analyze the effectives of local programs throughout the U.S. and be able to recognize the types of common characteristics in women who are getting

With more and more people veering away from traditional ways, which was saving their virginity for marriage, teenage pregnancy is a serious topic, and abortion needs to be thought about. On teenhelp.com, there are a lot of statistics about teenage pregnancy. About 2.65% of girls ages 15-19 gave birth in 2013. Of these teenage pregnancies, 77% were accidental. Not being married was popular among these teenagers, as 89% of them weren’t (Teen Pregnancy Statistics, 2015). With teenagers having babies, you have to wonder, who is going to have to pay for the kid if the teenager isn 't well off. It was estimated that about 9.4 billion tax dollars were spent on teenage pregnancy and childbirth (Teen Pregnancy Statistics, 2015). That is a huge amount of money to be spending.

America has no respect for life even when it comes to human life. Now a day’s unexpected pregnancy is very common in teenagers, and abortions is one of the first choices when a baby is not wanted. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the abortion rate is 13.9 out of 1,000 women aged 15-44.

Patel and Bisakha stated in the book, Maternal & Child Health, “…apart from the costs imposed upon taxpayers, teen-mothers themselves exhibit adverse outcomes subsequently in life, including poor educational and economic outcomes” (Patel and Bisakha 1). Millions of taxpayer dollars goes towards federal funding to teenage mothers; most teenage mothers do not have the financial means to take care of a child, resulting in dependence on the government for funding. Without abortions, teen-mothers are forced to drop out of school to raise a child they were not prepared for, resulting in poor education and monetary outcomes. Therefore, abortions become a necessary means, which allows teen girls who are not ready to become parents, a chance at life, before having it snatched away because of a

Finally, the most crucial reason to why parental consent laws for abortion should be legal is the potential medical dangerous that can occur before and after an abortion (Earll). Parents that are aware of their children desire to have an abortion and support their children’s decisions can provide “important medical history to a physician” (Christian Med.). “A minor may not be fully conscious of a family history that makes surgical or medical abortion

Not all minors are in a safe situation to obtain parental consent. When some teenage girls get pregnant they have to fear that they are going to be kicked out of their homes or even abused. Not all parents are understanding. Some may not approve of the abortion, but still kick their daughters out of the house. The girls are then left not only pregnant but trying to survive on their own. Other teenages have parents that are not around or can’t waste their time to give consent. Some minors would be safer or better off getting an abortion without parental consent.

24 percent of women having abortions are unmarried teenagers. Pregnancy can be a scary and extremely stressful time in a women?s life. To force a woman who is not ready for a child to go through with the birth is not the answer. Stress is not good for the fetus at all, and could lead to complications in the pregnancy, or even a miscarriage. People also seem to forget about a women?s mental health in these situations. A woman could be haunted for her lifetime of giving birth to an unborn child.

A lot of people believe that more than half of abortions are because of teens. Whether they are too immature or they are not using contraceptives. Although sometimes that is true, although most abortions are not because of teen pregnancies. According to Jeff Jones, minors accounted for only about forty percent of abortions and these happened without their parents or guardians ever knowing. Point three percent of abortions in 2013 were by fifteen year olds and younger (Jones). While teens are a very small portion of abortions adults are the vast majority. Unmarried women in 2013 held responsible for 85.2% of all abortions (Jones). Which could argue that they are the ones being more irresponsible than minors. Then twenty-fiver perfect of abortions were because the mothers “were not ready for a child (Jones).” Which makes adults sound more immature because