7:45 am. “I’m a Child, Not a Choice”. “Adoption, Not Abortion”. ”ABORTION: One Dead One Wounded”. She thought that by coming to her appointment fifteen minutes early she might be able to avoid these holier then thou activists as she pulled into the drive of the small clinic. Another added surprise greeted her as she walked into the waiting room, you would think this place was giving out free vacations by how many people there were crammed into this tiny room. 8:00am. Unable to find a free seat her and her boyfriend find a seat against the wall where so many others have attempted to make themselves comfortable. Suddenly the receptionist calls out her name, while standing at the sliding glass window the women explains the costs and why they needed so many signatures on so many release forms. “$478 dollars, that’s more then I made all week.”8:45 am. Finally all the T’s have been crossed and the I’s dotted but for some reason she feels as if she just signed away her soul. Still sitting there in silence she resorts to people watching to keep her mind calm. Some women are here alone, some with other women, and some lucky ones with significant others. It’s very obvious everyone is doing what they can to stay calm, one couple watches “Maury” on the 16 inch TV mounted in the corner. Another two women gossip while painting their nails. Directly across from her she notices a women sobbing in the butt of her boyfriends armpit, but she’s too numb to know pity for anyone besides herself. 9:30am. A hysterical women appears from behind a closed door, everyone in the room carefully listens as she explains to the receptionist that she will need her money back because her 14 year old daughter is “too far along” for them to go ahead with the proced...
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... girl gets drunk at a party and sleeps with someone from school without a condom, she knows in the back of her head that if the worst ever happened that there would be an option to fix it…abortion. A women is torn between two love interests and doesn’t think to go on birth control but continues to sleep with both men, in the back of her head she knows if she were to get pregnant it wouldn’t matter who the father was because neither would have to know…abortion. The situations are limitless. But what happens if you take that option away? That teenager and that confused women are forced into being responsible. There no longer is an easy way out, because now if a pregnancy occurs it results in a baby… no more abortion. No more babies dying due to a lack of good judgment, no more girls lying with their legs spread waiting for a doctor to fix their mistake, no more excuses.
The American culture is addicted to and repulsed by graphic violence. Ratings soar on news stations when a mass murder occurs. People speak of how terrible it is, and yet, their eyes are fastened to the television set. The author, who will be referred to as ‘Abort73’, uses this disgust of mass death to support the idea that abortion and the procedures used, are evil. For many, abortion is a political issue only, not a moral issue of high importance. Like most political issues, it is clouded in partisan debates and logical fallacies. Abort73 writes to bring the debate out of all the fog and describe the actual medical procedures that are used to terminate a pregnancy, effectively engaging the audience.
Nearly one million teenage girls become pregnant each year each year. (About Teen Pregnancy, 2014). Imagine your own daughter or someone else’s daughter who is very close to you is experience this. Should these teenage girls suffer for their in experience and lack of knowledge or even a moment of carelessness? Teenage girls are just exploring puberty and experience new things and even though sex is not encourage in many households many teenagers still go out and proceed with these activities. However, can they really be blamed for wanting to explore their own bodies? That is why strict anti-abortion laws should be lifted because even though precautions are taken accidents can still happen and there is no reason that to make young teenagers suffer by carrying a child they are not obviously ready for. When many teenage girls gets pregnant the often have to deal with the pregnancy by getting unsafe abortions. This could lead to many medical complications in the future and cause major harm to the body of the
“Unplanned” by Abby Johnson is a true story about a dramatic life turn-around. Abby Johnson goes from being a Planned Parenthood Director to advocating for Coalition for Life. In her touching story, she describes how one abortion turned her life upside down. She discovers the truth and realizes how blind she had been all along. Crossing the pro-choice side of the fence, to the pro-life side, this book conveys both opinions and the forces driving them.
...ys how an unborn, unwanted child may bring dilemmas like poor communication, inability to make a decision, and damage to relationships; all in a symbolic and creative manner. Relationships issues such as a couple’s inability to communicate efficiently, their distant nature towards one another, the resurfacing of deeper issues contribute to the decision a woman makes regarding abortion. In addition to whether or not a child is born, a man’s defiant and persuasive manner combined with a women’s desire for the relationship she fell in love with can be the difference between a thriving relationship and a broken one. Heminway’s inventive story uses hidden symbols to explore the topics of abortion and relationships in such a way as to leaving the reader wondering and debating if the couple is going to break up or if the American merely changes his mind about the operation.
Just imagine a 17 year old girl sitting on her bathroom floor. She is staring at this plastic stick that is now going to determine her choices for the rest of her life. The little plus sign causes her stomach to tense up and her throat to choke up. Who will help her? Who will pay for the food her and her baby need? Who is the father? Will she finish high-school and go to college? How will her parents react? This young girl has a choice that will have major impact on her life no matter what she decides. What if she was able to decide when and how she wanted these decisions/questions to come up? That young girl isn’t the only girl thinking about this choice; actually thousands of girls are. The United States has the highest teenage
Every day, an overwhelming amount of human beings’ lives are terminated. The culprit: unwanted pregnancies. Many woman are (not by choice), becoming pregnant as a result of unsafe sex, rape, and other things. So what is one to do when they discover that they’re pregnant? They have some alternatives: (1) have the child and raise it (2) have the child, then give it up for adoption (3) get an abortion. Sadly, many women choose alternative three, unaware of what they’re getting themselves into.
Betty was only seventeen when she found out that she was pregnant. She and the father had been in a long term relationship, and had discussed having children of their own. However, when he found out that she was pregnant their relationship immediately changed. Suddenly he began to question her fidelity, and he accused her of being pregnant with another man’s baby. After his reaction, Betty decided not to tell anyone, especially because having a child out of wedlock was frowned upon. She began to search for an abortion clinic. She found one by looking through the telephone directory for gynecologists who did not advertise themselves as obstetricians. She went to meet the practitioner in a run-down shack in the middle of nowhere. Once Betty arrived, the practitioner immediately began the procedure. The method this practitioner used was a cervical puncture followed by an insertion of willow bark. Betty was given no pain medicine. After she left she began to bleed profusely and soon presented symptoms of an infection. Although the woman who performed the abortion told her not to come back, she did, and was given some painkillers. After a few days the infection appeared to have passed and her doctor told her she was no longer pregnant (Fadiman). Betty’s story is not a rare one. Many women suffered because of the unsafe conditions that they had endure to get an abortion after abortion was criminalized. These conditions were a direct result of new laws that punished women for attempting to procu...
The spark that ignited this controversy began in the early 1960s. Abortion was a banned and forbidden practice unless the mother’s life was endangered. As a result of abortions being illegal, it led many women to seek black market a...
“The hanging fluorescent lights move in the wind, squealing slightly on their hinges. He knows he’s paranoid- Comes with the territory, they told him when he’d first started at the clinic, and he’d been more than willing to accept that…” (Brundage, 9). In the novel, Michael is abducted as he is coming out of the women’s clinic he works at. Many OB-GYNs sometimes perform abortions at Planned Parenthood clinics without asking for payment because they just want to help the women who truly need it. These doctors and nurses don’t deserve the group of protesters that chant outside of what is supposed to be a safe place for
In the year 2001, women can receive legal abortions. That was not the case just a small time ago. Imagine candle light vigils, signs that state “PRO LIFE IS A WAR TO THE END” and religious fanatics preaching the words “You Must Repent”. These are the things women must endure to this day just to enter the doors of a women’s clinic. Regardless of a routine Pap smear or a termination the lingering words of a protestor can be heard just to enter a clinic. The movie “If These Walls Could Talk” takes you through three different time periods, the 50’s, 70’s and the 90’s, and each time period deals with a story of a woman and her dilemma in dealing with abortion. Whether it is legal or not in that time, one idea stays the same. Equality Now, it is our choice as women.
My mother’s friend has been pregnant with a total of five children. Of those five, only four of them are still here. At the time, her family was having money troubles, and she just received news of her fourth pregnancy. Her friend had to make one of the toughest decisions of her life. It was either keep the baby and her whole family would become homeless or go to a clinic and have an abortion. Abortion should be a safe, legal option for all pregnant women when deciding the future of their unborn baby.
I would argue that giving birth isn 't always the most responsible option. If a woman knows that she won 't be able to effectively take care of the child I’d say it’s more responsible of her to have an abortion and prevent them both from having a future full of hardships. People also say that if a woman had practiced safe sex and used contraception than she could have avoided it all together. According to Newsweek, a report released by the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that, “fewer than half of high schools and only a fifth of middle schools teach lessons on all 16 of the nationally recommended topics for sexual health education.” They also found that, “schools were least likely to teach kids how to obtain or use condoms.” This shows that not everyone is informed on how to obtain or correctly use contraceptives, so avoiding a pregnancy might not always be an
Under the 14th Amendment's "personal liberty", women are given the right to obtain an abortion. Almost 50% of all pregnancies in this country are unintended, including over 30% within marriage. And over half of all unplanned pregnancies end in abortion. Improved access to contraception would address the source causes of unintended pregnancy and would diminish the need for abortion, but not abolish the choice.
With so many women choosing to have abortions, it would be expected that it would not be so greatly frowned up, yet society is still having problems with its acceptance. Every woman has the fundamental right to decide for herself, free from government interference, whether or not to have an abortion. Today, more than ever, American families do not want the government to trample on their right to privacy by mandating how they must decide on the most intimate, personal matters. That is why, even though Americans may differ on what circumstances for terminating a crisis pregnancy are consistent with their own personal moral views, on the fundamental question of who should make this personal decision, the majority of Americans agree that each woman must have the right to make this private choice for herself. Anti-choice proposals to ban abortions for “sex-selection” or “birth-control” are smokescreens designed to shift the focus of the debate away from this issue and trivialize the seriousness with which millions of women make this highly personal decision. Any government restriction on the reasons for which women may obtain legal abortions violates the core of this right and could force all women to publicly justify their reasons for seeking abortion.
Millions of illegal abortions were done by the 1950s, and over a thousand women died each year as result. Moreover, millions of women who had illegal abortions were rushed to the emergency ward; some died of abdominal infection, and other, found themselves sterile and chronically ill. In 1969, 75% of the women who died from these abortions were either poor or of color. In the landmark case of Roe v. Wade (1973) the Supreme Court ruled that woman had the right of privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to obtain an abortion, yet, keeping in mind that, protecting the health of the woman and the potential life of the fetus is the main interest. As result of this decision, safe and unpainful abortion services were offered to many women. In addition, some health care centers provided counseling, women’s group offered free referral services, and, non-profit abortion facilities were created. Nevertheless, legalization was not enough to ensure that abortions will be available to all women, women of low income and of color still found themselves without safe and inexpensive abortions. Between the early 1980s, feminist health centers provided low-cost abortions, however, by the early 1990s, only 20% of these centers survived the harassment by the IRS and the competition of other