Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy before the fetus has the ability to survive outside of the womb. There are two sides to abortion: Pro-life and Pro-choice. The poem “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks is about a mother who has had more than one abortion and is thinking about the lives she took away from them.
There are many reasons why people choose to get an abortion. Most of the time parenthood is not planned and the proper precautions to not having a child are not taken. The parents feel that they are not emotionally or financially stable to bring a baby into this world. Another reasons could be that they have been raped or that the father chose to not want to be in her life anymore and the mother cannot take of a baby by herself. Bringing a child into this world unprepared is not really the best idea so many people resort to abortion. Some chose to get abortions because they find out that there is a medical problem wrong with the baby causing it to not have a regular life.
Pregnancies on average last about 40 weeks. Nearly 90% of abortions are done in the first trimester of a pregnancy, which is about the first 13 weeks. In the Supreme Court case Roe vs. Wade they ruled that a woman could be allowed to have an abortion within her first two trimesters of a pregnancy. (Update: Abortion)
In the poem the speaker imagines the lives that her unborn children could have possibly had. Not only does she think about their lives being taken away from them she thinks about what she took away from herself, motherhood. She mentions in the poem that they will “never wind up the sucking thumb”(Brooks 10). She also says that she would never get to breastfeed.
People who are pro-life argue that getting an abortion is killing a baby is murd...
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...n she let me live...” his mother was 17 and still in high school. She as worried that if she had a baby she wouldn’t finish school and would have to struggle to take care of him. Her first option that made the most sense to her was abortion. As we can see now we know that she didn’t resort to that.
There are other options instead of an abortion. One could set up an adoption plan instead. They both still come with pain but knowing that a child could have a life is a better feeling. An adoption is giving away all legal rights to another family to take care of a child that somebody cannot. There is also open adoption, which is where the birth mother and the adoptive parents come to an agreement where they can get regular updates on the child. They could get pictures, meetings with parents or even play dates with the child. The law however does not enforce that method.
Pro-choice activists only focus on the positives of being able to choose whether a woman can keep her baby. They don’t look at the risks that come with abortion like “shame, guilt, and regret” (Chittom & Newton, 2015). Abortion doesn’t only effect a woman mentally, but also physically. There is a possibility of death or complications when having an abortion. Anything can go wrong even if it is rare for it to happen. I don’t believe a woman should put her physical health at risk in order to kill her own baby. It sound harsh saying the word “kill”, but that is the reality. Pro-choice supporters try to shy away from using phrases like “killing” and “baby” because of how harsh it sounds. They would rather use words like “fetus”, “embryo” and “annihilate”. Using those word make the reality of killing an innocent baby seem less harsh. They bring up reasons to support their stance like stating that “a woman must have the power to control a decision as significant as parenthood, and that individuals should be able to influence decisions to the same extent that those decisions affect their lives” (Anderson, 2015). Their reasoning isn 't good enough. A woman can have the power to make her own decisions at another time. She can decide many things for herself, but abortion shouldn 't be one of
Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "The mother" tells us about a mother who had many abortions. The speaker is addressing her children in explain to them why child could not have them. The internal conflict reveals that she regret killing her children or "small pups with a little or with no hair." The speaker tells what she will never do with her children that she killed. She will "never neglect", "beat", "silence", "buy with sweet", " scuffle off ghosts that come", "controlling your luscious sigh/ return for a snack", never hear them "giggled", "planned", and "cried." She also wishes she could see their "marriage", "aches", "stilted", play "games", and "deaths." She regrets even not giving them a "name" and "breaths." The mother knows that her decision will not let her forget by using the phrase "Abortions will not let you forget." The external conflict lets us know that she did not acted alone in her decision making. She mentions "believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate" and "whine that the crime was other than mine." The speaker is saying that her decision to have an abortion was not final yet but someone forced her into having it anyway. The external conflict is that she cannot forget the pain on the day of having the abortions. She mentions the "contracted" and "eased" that she felt having abortions.
How would you feel if someone took away your ability to live and have a future? You wouldn't have the opportunity to crawl, take your first step, have your first kiss, or experience those butterflies in your stomach at the sight of first love. Millions of special moments, a life, shredded to pieces. This is essentially what abortion does. Abortion is not the answer in the case of an unplanned pregnancy and needs to be stopped! First of all, abortion is a type of unnecessary murder that occurs in inhumane ways and cannot be tolerated. Moreover, there are alternatives to abortion and many families who are looking to adopt. Lastly, the side effects of abortion can cause life threatening health risks to the mother. Excuses will always be made, but the bottom line is that abortion is not acceptable and should be stopped.
The idea of whether abortion should be illegal or allowed is a controversial one since everyone seems to have different ideologies. Judith Thomson, who is in support of pro-choice argues in her article “A Defense of Abortion” main idea towards abortion is stating women should have the right to choose because they have the moral right to decide whether they have to hold life in their body. This idea is presented from her first analogy using the violinist who has a failing kidney and will perish if he does not have someone give him blood immediately. They take you without your permission and plug you into him. She connects this to the idea of the fetus by saying everyone has the right to life and if the fetus is considered a person then it would be wrong to kill an innocent human being, but then says that if the child is harming you then you should not wait until you are dead, he body is the home of the women so she should be allowed to defend herself against
To go for abortion or adoption or keeping the baby, the decision in the end totally depends on Jig and Jig only. If Jig is uncertain that she might not be able to take care of her future child, an option for her is adoption. This way they will be internally satisfied that their child is happy and living a perfect life. With having the knowledge about abortion, Jig will make the best decision concerning her and her life.
The point when considering individual encounters, "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks touches on the frequently passionate theme of premature birth. This sonnet was transformed decades back, yet still remains significant right up 'til the present time. Tolerating premature birth and the conclusion can in fact be a testing undertaking for a lot of people, while others adjust to it without much of an issue. Gwendolyn Brooks, in this great work, permits us to investigate the mom’s perspective purpose of fetus removal via an abortion and how a mother reacts to her interesting circumstance. All around the lyric the speaker hints at distress, using symbolism, concerning the theme of premature birth and its conclusions by exhibiting to us her perspective, memories, love, unpretentious triggers, and disarray.
The side of this argument that is pro-life would state that you are killing a human. People would state that it is human life at the beginning of conception, therefor causing the fetus to be a living thing. By law in no civilized society allows one human to knowingly harm or take a life without punishment. If the law states that you cannot take or harm a life then why should abortion be ok? People that are pro-life would argue that when you are getting an abortion you are killing a human bean that has no choice in the matter (Issues-Abortion, 2013).
People have abortions for many different reasons. People go through many stages in their life that will cause them not to want kids. For example, some people may have been molested by family members, or even strangers. While some parents are not financially able to raise a child. There are options such as giving the child up for adoption or even letting a family member carry the child.
Abortions are very selfish and a cruel way to end pregnancy. Abortions wouldn’t be needed if females would take responsibility and either use contraception or own up to their mistakes. Abortion is murder no matter how you look at it and murderers should be punished for their actions. Choose to be pro-life and stand up for the innocent babies that can’t.
Abortion is a subject that is talked about very commonly throughout society. Many doctors who give abortions are called killers. The people who call these doctors killers are pro-lifers. They believe abortion is wrong. Pro-lifers also believe abortion laws were made up by baby killers, and not our court system. Abortion was illegal at one point. It wasn’t until the case of Roe vs. Wade that the Supreme Court decided women have the right to abortion as long as guidelines were followed. Roe vs. Wade guidelines that were established are still in effect today.
If the fetus weighs less than 18oz or is less than 20 weeks into the pregnancy, it is usually considered an abortion. These usually occur during the first three months of pregnancy. It is estimated that 25% of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion (Epner 725). The very early stage of the pregnancy, up to 49 days after conception, the woman has two choices. The first is to take a combination of drugs. The embryo is then passed out. The other method is to use a syringe, and gently suck the embryo out. The next type can be preformed six to fourteen weeks after conception. The method the doctor’s use is to insert a tube in the vagina, and then hook it up to a suction machine. The fetus is then removed. This procedure takes about ten minutes. The second trimester abortions are called D&E, which stands for dilation and evacuation. These are preformed up to the twenty-fifth week of pregnancy, and usually take ten to twenty minutes. The way they are preformed is the woman is given absorbent dilators, which open up the cervix and absorb the fluids. After this is left in overnight the woman then is ready for the evacuation stage. The fetus is easily removed with instruments and suction. In the last trimester of the pregnancy abortions are preformed mainly if the woman’s life is in danger or the fetus is severely deformed. Only one out of every ten thousand abortions are preformed this way. The main way that is used is by injecting a salt solution into the vagina, causing contractions. The baby is then born stillbirth (Epner 724).
Many people have their own opinions on abortion, that a fetus is a human being with a right to live so abortion is similar to murder. While other groups argue that a woman has certain rights, especially the choice whether to bring another life into the world. The groups that are for it think that abortion gives women the control over their own bodies, which it is their choice when and whether to have children or giving an option to choose to bring or not to bring a child with abnormalities to the world. Some children are born with severe disorders and some parents, being unable to care for their disabled child seek abortion as their one and only option because taking care of a child, especially born with abnormalities is tough work to do as a parent, so they decide whether bring a life into the world. They look ahead on what is best for them, and it is selfish. Or even having in mind that some do not want to become a single parent taking up two roles; a mother and father and they feel like every child should come into the world feeling wanted, loved and cared for. Another reason some women have an abortion is because they do not want to stop work or schooling, and these reasons are consistent across many countries, including America. Other reasons are because of societal pressures, women get little to no social support. But
In abortion, the ethical question rests whether the right of the mother or the fetus should take precedence? Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy and the expulsion of a fetus from the uterus by natural causes before it is able to survive independently. Abortion has become one of the largest social debates world wide being such a moral issue. Ethics in abortion involves constitutional and human right, personal beliefs, the other options, state laws, pro-life, and pro-choice.
The murder of innocents or, a woman’s right to choose; the Pro-Life/ Pro-Choice Debate, Which side are you on? The issue of abortion has been a topic of interest not only in the medical world but also in the political and religious worlds as well. The pro-life argument states that at conception the fetus is a baby and terminating it is taking a life. The pro-choice argument states that the unborn fetus, not baby, is just a blob of tissue and your terminating a pregnancy not a child. Both sides of the argument will be discussed in this essay along with the views of the church, politicians, women who have had abortion, and even a women who use to worked for Planned Parenthood.
Is there really a difference between abortion and murder? If a doctor killed a child one minute after it was born it would be murder, but if a doctor killed a child one minute before the child was born it would be the mothers choice. 52% of abortions occur before the 9th week of pregnancy, 25% happen between the 9th & 10th week, 12% happen between the 11th and 12th week, 6% happen between the 13th & 15th week, 4% happen between the 16th & 20th week, and 1% of all abortions happen after the 20th week of pregnancy. (The Alan Guttmacher Institute.) You could have a baby that's born at week 22 and still have a 15% chance of living. (Siegel, Reva) If the mothers didn't want the babies she could have always put them up for adoption.