Women's March Analysis

“Pro-Choice or for-Abortion” activists believe in women’s rights, they want to protect the rights of women and what they can do with their own bodies, while those against it “Pro-Lifers or Anti-Abortion”

Although abortion is a political topic that seems very recent, in the United States it dates back to before the early 1820s. Connecticut is the first state to have passed any laws regulating abortion. In 1821, they pass a law prohibiting the use of any sorts of a toxic substance that causes a miscarriage after quickening (the moment a pregnant woman first feels fetal movement) (Wilson, Jaque). Many other states followed Connecticut’s lead (Wilson, Jaque). Besides trying to humanely discard of fetuses, states began banning abortion for population control reasons as well. “In the mid-to-late 1800s states began passing laws that made abortion illegal. The motivations for anti-abortion laws varied from state to state. One of the reasons included fears that the population would be dominated by the children of newly arriving immigrants, whose birth rates were higher than those of ‘native’ Anglo-Saxon

Abortions became increasingly more common throughout the end of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century, even though, by 1900, abortion was prohibited by law throughout the U.S. unless two or more doctors agreed that an abortion was necessary to preserve the life of the pregnant woman (Sauer).

Abortion has been around for thousands of years and was legal in the United States since the very beginning. First it became illegal throughout the 1880’s up until 1973. Although abortion was

Abortion has been around for ages. When it was banned in the US in the 1800s, it was justified by the eugenics movement and the US government as concern

Luker’s central argument is that the debate over abortion has become a symbolic issue. This is now becoming a way to divide ourselves based on our social worlds. The idea of certain beliefs and values have been embedded into women’s lives through “their education, incomes, occupations, and the different marital and family choices they have made along the way” (Luker, 214). Each side of activists finds themselves on a different side of the social world “they are financially successful or they are not. They become highly educated or they do not. They become married and have a large family, or they have a small one” (Luker, 214). With each of these steps their views and lives have “undergone either ratification or revision” (Luker, 215). There are two different worlds that prochoice and prolife

To best understand the topic, it is best we look at both sides of the issue. Pro-Life or anti-abortion activists often argue that the fetus is a human immediately after fertilization, resulting in murder or killing innocent human beings. Pro-Choice or Pro- abortion activists often argue that regardless of the status of the fetus, women should have the right to choose what to do with their bodies. According to the National Abortion Federation on prochoice.org, abortion was common and openly used around the time of the creation of the constitution. In the mid-1800’s abortion became illegal state by state, the reasoning behind criminalization varied by state but it was believed there was a fear the population would be primarily children of immigrants rather that Anglo-Saxon women if abortion remained legal.

Then I kept reading, and the more I read the more I found myself nodding at what the writer, in this case the President of NOW Terry O’Neill, was saying about abortion, or as she called it “abortion care.” She mentioned the high rate of infant mortality, of which one of the causes she says is the high preterm birth rate due to the failure of the public health system. She mentions that adolescent mothers, especially those who are poorer, are unable to gain access to prenatal care, which results in low birth weight and the possibility that the newborn could die in the first month or even be born premature, which in some cases can be fatal as well. The other statistic that she mentions is the rise of maternal deaths, either during childbirth or during pregnancy. She believes that abortion care could help prevent these deaths. I have to admit that I never gave paid too much mind to the pro-choice/pro-life debate except to say, “My body, my decision. The government can shove it.” It surprises me to see that so many people believe that the government should have a say in what a woman can or can’t do with her body. I’ve only seen a bit on abortion rights in our readings, and while the reading itself states that not all feminists are pro-choice, I can see it’s a very important issue in the women’s movement. The ability to make such an important decision

Kaveny Cathleen informs us on what the pro-life activist stance is all about in the article “Vigilante injustice: the right to life & the rule of law”. In this article, she comes to inform us by telling the story of an extremist pro-life activist Robert Lewis Dear. His actions against abortion providers have affected the views of the public. Those actions have also affected multiple other pro-life activists in the pro-life movement. She openly states that with the outcome of these events, “it became increasingly clear that opposition to abortion was his motivation, which put many pro-life activists on the defensive”.

Pro-choice has been a major topic ever since the women’s movements started in the early 1970’s, a question sometimes asked is that, if part of the population are so pro-life and worry about protecting a fetus, how come when the child is conceived they suddenly bash at you for having that unwanted child anyways, and that is hypocritical. In this essay, details include would be why people choose to be pro-choice, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the battle for reproductive justice for women and their right to make decisions for their body, advocates that are pro-choice, proposals for a pro-choice government, and Tomi Lahren being fired for stating she was pro-choice.

In the article I'm an anti-abortion feminist. I'll walk at the Women’s March, whether organizers like it or not, Aimee Murphy expresses her true sentiment on having the right to march. She claims that women can be both pro-life and feminist and should be allowed to walk. According to Murphy the meaning of the march is the “women-led movement bringing together people of all genders, ages, races, culture, political affiliations and backgrounds”. Indicating that the organizers should not turn their backs on the New Wave Feminism, apologizing for the mistake for letting them participate in the first place. Murphy also reflects on the modern feminist that is pro-choice, identifies the meaning of feminism that is “we stand for equality, nondiscrimination

I was compelled to write this when I heard a peer of mine say “You should just accept the things you can’t change” in regards to the women’s march on DC, this is so wrong though, you should change the things you can’t accept. It’s our first amendment right to protest, but the people that are trying to take that away are the same people that use the Bill of Rights to prove their points. Instead of ridiculing the uneducated people I will just try to educate them, on why women march, on why I march. Our president said that women who have had abortions should be jailed, but women feel they need abortions when the men that are told they can just “grab em’ by the pussy” decide to do just that. Oh, I’m sorry is that not ladylike of me? I’m just quoting my president. Let’s face it, men and women are NOT equal, but not only men and women, adults and children aren’t

The warfare of “women’s right to abortion” by Kathleen Parker September 30 says “the war on women is based on just one thing- abortion rights.” Has been going along for a long period of time to the fourth dimension. In edict to the conflict between democratic operatives and republicans is basically about recently chastised liberals for them selective out range regarding women’s right. Parker agrees with women’s have the rights to make picks on there on they don’t have to be made for them.

Dating all the way back to the 1800’s, abortions have been taking place all over the world. In the US abortion laws were created around 1820 stating that women would not have abortions after already being pregnant for four months. Then by 1900 most abortions were outlawed. It wasn’t until 1956 that all fifty states had

Women have been having elective abortions, using different methods, all over the world, for thousands of years. In the United States, from the time the first settlers arrived abortion was legal during the first trimester or what was then called the quickening. The quickening was