Pro-Choice Article Summary: Prolife Vs. Prochoice

Prolife Vs Prochoice Martha Mendoza is an American author who attended college at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She wrote a very intriguing pro-choice article on abortion appropriately titled "Between a Woman and Her Doctor". Abortion, defined as the intentional termination of a fetus, has always been a very controversial topic in American history. This topic has been all over the news for year with people advocating while others opposed. The only thing left out in the fight for/against legalizing abortion was the type of abortion taking place, but the article explicitly elucidates that Mendoza was in a different situation since her baby was already dead. Nevertheless, Mendoza uses her research, personal experience, and facts

Put yourself in Mendoza’s position, you have been carrying your bundle of joy for 19 weeks, talking, singing, and bonding with your baby. Planning out the rest of your life, centering on your baby when suddenly, it comes to a tragic end. You no longer feel your baby twist, kick, and hiccup. You’re suddenly robbed of that warm feeling. The feeling that trounces any horrible morning sickness and back pain. As if the pain of losing a child is not enough, you are bleeding, and there is no doctor available to perform the dilations and evacuations (D&E) procedure before decay begins. Labor induced delivery is suggested where you might possibly die or suffer severe damages, you are in both physical pain from bleeding, and mental pain from losing your child. How would you react? Would you ask for a D&E? or would you induce labor and wait a few days to deliver a lifeless

However, Mendoza does come up with a compromise since she is the one who falls in the middle. For her it is not a question of being prolife or prochoice, but rather a question of being in a medical situation that demands and abortion. In order to compromise on both sides, we need to craft our laws in a way that abortions are not so easy that they are encouraged. The laws should also be flexible enough so that women who find themselves in Mendoza’s Predicament do not have to wait a few days or go out of state to find a doctor who will perform the procedure. Moreover, the government can compromise on abortion by trying to eliminate it all together through the provision of free contraception at a hospital, pharmacy, or any institute of medicine. This provision will reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies which is the salient cause of abortion. In conclusion, everyone regardless of whether they are prolife or prochoice, needs to have an open mind when it comes to this controversial topic. In cases where abortion is not necessary like using the procedure as a contraceptive measure, the mother should not be permitted to commit the abortion, however, with cases similar to Mendoza’s where the termination is inevitable, the procedure should