Persuasive Essay On Abortion

“Abortion, it is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish” (Mother Teresa). “A sixteen-year-old girl named Jenny, from a rural North Carolina town, got pregnant by her high school boyfriend. She kept the news from her father who was a stern Baptist pastor. Jenny was raised with the conviction that abortion was murder and, knowing her father’s extreme condemnation of premarital sex, she couldn’t confess her pregnancy to him. Trapped by two unthinkable alternatives, she ignored the situation until it was too late and she secretly gave birth in her bedroom. She then panicked and felt that disposing of the baby was the only way to make her problem go away. She suffocated the baby by closing it in a plastic bag and

The purpose of these laws was to protect the life of the woman and the fetus. The intentions were not to prosecute the women (Pew Research Center). Meanwhile this issue was going on in the early twentieth century, social forces such as women’s suffrage and the feminist movement moved forward the country towards political and sexual freedom for all women. For example, in the year 1967 the state of Colorado was the first to extend the conditions in which a women was able to legally receive an abortion. Another example would be in the year 1970, when eleven other states made comparable adjustments to their abortion laws.

Four other states had legalized abortion when pregnancy is at an early state. These states were, New York, Washington, Hawaii, and Alaska. Simultaneously, abortion rights advocates initiated a series of court disagreements disputing that the laws were unclear, or that they went against the right to privacy or equal protection under the law guaranteed under the United States Constitution. The State and Federal Courts rejected the