Abortion: Pro-Choice is the Logical Argument

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The controversy surrounding the ethicality of abortions has been a hotly debated topic during the past several decades. In the Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade, the Court ruled that women had the constitutional right to seek abortions; however, in 1989, the Court later decided that each state had the right to set its own abortion policy. Heated disagreements and different perspectives have led to the creation of two different movements: the prochoice movement and the prolife movement. The former supports abortion, the intentional ending of a pregnancy, while the latter claims that abortion is immoral. The issue has been escalated from a matter of choice to the questioning of morality – Is having an abortion the killing of a human? The pro-choice side provides a much more logical argument towards the controversy surrounding abortions.

Although critics argue that upon conception, even a fetus is a new life, I find this not to be true. I would attest that until you see the world outside of the inside of a woman, you have not experienced “life”. If a fetus has not seen the outside world, it has no “life” of its own. It is so interdependent upon its mother that it can hardly survive by itself; also, most abortions take place in the first three months when the fetus is unable to live on its own. Therefore, the fetus is not really “living” in a non-literal sense.

Furthermore, why do people want to get abortions in the first place? A majority of the time, people who want abortions want them because of some negative circumstance. What if the woman got raped? What if the baby was conceived an “accident”? Although these questions are somewhat of a taboo within our society, the fact is that this is the reality of some sit...

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...ds to the child feeling unwanted. Of the 1,370,000 abortions yearly in the U.S., 93% are done because the child is unwanted or inconvenient. That is approximately 1,270,000 abortions alone solely because of undesirable circumstances. What if these millions of children were born due to abortion laws? Surely the effect would be catastrophic: child abuse would increase, homeless children would increase, and eventually, crime would increase as well. The prolife movement is utterly flawed and illogical.

In the end, the matter of abortions comes down to the use of prudence. If a woman finds herself unable to support a child because of any circumstance, whether it is because of financial problems or because of an unforeseen conception or any other reason, then she can choose to receive an abortion. Taking away this option is the same as limiting a woman’s freedom.

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