Abortion

This paper will explain all of the harmful ways abortions can harm your body and also how they may affect you in a positive and in a negative way. It will also help you understand why people decide to get an abortion or why they decide not to get them. Even though you may not agree with the decision of abortion, you have to have an open mind to other people’s decisions and opinions towards them. Over several centuries and in different cultures there is a deep history of women helping each other to abort (Boston’s women help). Abortion is often presented as if it is new and people have just started doing it years ago, when in reality the practice of abortion has dated back to ancient times.

Abortion can be performed surgically in a clinic, or with special pills to abort the fetus. Women should have the right to an abortion because it can save her life, she might have been raped or, taken drugs that might have harmed the fetus. Also, the fetus might have a disability and there is a chance that the mother might be a teen without enough money to support her baby financially. Women have the right to choose whether or not they want to have the baby, in cases such as rape. In this case, the women might not want to have the baby because she might be mentally traumatized by the incident.

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Many women in the United States now-a-days choose abortion over adoption because they are not well educated on the effects of abortion and adoption (Burton). Women think that abortion is better just because their child has a defect or any chance of having an abnormality. But the statistics say that only three percent of all abortions are because of an abnormality or child defect (Heure). Have you ever heard the controversy over abortion and adoption? It is a big topic in the world today.

Banning abortion, put women at a higher risk of going out and finding illegal way to have the procedure done (“Abortion Information” 1). Once abortion became illegal in the United States 1.2 million abortions were preformed illegally. Dangerous attempts have been made by women to preform their own abortion, or have them done by unskilled surgeons often with dangerous instruments and sometimes in unsanitary conditions. Serious complication from unsafe abortion included, “perforations of the uterus, retained placentas, severe bleeding, cervical wounds, and rampant infections” (Currie 17.) Abortion has become safer over the years and should be legalized in every state in the United States; abortion should also be kept private between the client and doctor.

Some argue abortion is condonable under certain circumstances such as rape, incest, or potentially fatal to the mother carrying the child. I have a preconceived notion that abortion is not morally acceptable and I do not think you could generalize a situation in which it could be acceptable. Some libertarians are against abortion, and think that the fetuses’ rights need to be protected, while conservatives believe that fetuses have the right to life as soon as conception happens. Physicians are viewed negatively due to performing these abortions, and the women who get these procedure done have negative emotional side effects. Whether one believes with the views of libertarians or conservatives, the way physicians are viewed and the side effects that follow should be strong evidence that abortion needs to be done away with completely.

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Abortion should only be allowed in the case of rape or possible death of the mother. Abortion is a serious and scary situation. Has anyone ever wondered what abortion is? How about what abortion is doing to the United States? The following will tell people everything they need to know about abortion, and why it should be illegal.

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