Persuasive Essay On Legalizing Abortion

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The actions of getting an abortion is to terminated a pregnancy. Women who are getting an abortion have to do so within the first twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy. According to The World Health Organization every year there are approximately forty to fifty million abortions, which on average is about one hundred and twenty-five thousand abortions within a day. There are many questions surrounding this issue. For example, why should the government illegalize abortion? Also what justifies some women to get an abortion and what does not? Can a women get an abortion if she was raped or if she could have birth complications that could result in a stillbirth, or death of the mother? A woman who becomes pregnant as a result of either getting rape or incest is the victim of a horribly violent and morally reprehensible crime. But that does not give the …show more content…

Why should women be allowed to kill an innocent fetus. That is simply taking away life before every giving them a chance. There are situations that have contradicting sides such as the female being raped. Some may say yes; she has the right to get an abortion so that she doesn’t have to live her life dealing with the hard facts. She will have to telling the child their father raped her, or they don’t have a father. The mother has the option of giving the baby to child services to have the baby put in foster care or with an adoption family. Statistics state that: “In the U.S. 397,122 children are living without permanent families in the foster care system, and 101,666 of these children are eligible for adoption, but nearly 32% of these children will wait over three years in foster care before being adopted. (Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute). The mother can also be surrogate mother. That option gives the baby a guaranteed family. Some may go against that saying the woman doesn’t want to deal with carrying the child for nine months because they will become attached to the

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