The Pros And Cons Of Abortion

In light of recent state mandated laws that have closed down hundreds of clinics country-wide, and set unusual standards for abortions, a debate boils down to the choice a woman should receive. Abortion should not be criminalized in any way because this would impose unfair opinions on women 's rights, gives support to the false idea that a fetus has personhood, and increases the likelihood of unsafe practices. Beginning with the Supreme Court ruling in Roe vs. Wade(1973) to legalize abortion, and 19 years later another ruling in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey to ensure no undue burden for women seeking abortions, the debate between pro-choice and anti-choice (pro-life) remains to be a debate simply of women 's equal rights. In an article by …show more content…

It is simply the quality or condition of being an individual person. What exactly a person or human being is differs amongst individuals and religious groups. Mary Ann Warren makes an acceptable decision that the difference may lie within the word choice. A human is simply something or someone that contains the same genetic markers as other human beings. A person is someone who has “sentience, emotionality, reason or the ability to solve problems, the capacity to communicate, self awareness, and moral agency”(Andrew J. Peach 190). By these standards, of course a fetus is not a person but rather a potential person. Others who find their definition in religion to not justify abortions, may do so, but they may not make laws based on them. This question is an impossible one to answer definitively, but only a difficult one to disregard in the pro-choice idealism. Not only does this argument have flaws such as the exception those make for cases of rape or incest, but it does not have a place when the criminalization of abortion has much more important …show more content…

Grant), the government and people must not only take into consideration their ethics and values but the safety of half our population. Abortion is one of the safest medical procedures that exist when done correctly by a medical physician. In a celebration of the 16th anniversary of the abortion pill and International Abortion Day, Melissa Grant is an eye opener to the reality of unsafe medical practices that can follow the inavailability to abortion clinics. An Annual estimated 68,000 die from unsafe abortions. “ It is clear and historically proven that making abortion a criminalized act does nothing to decrease the need for abortion. It just makes abortion care more costly and less available which drive those who seek it to desperate and unsafe actions”(Grant). The question as to if the termination of a fetus is murder, is inconsequential when compared to the life of the woman the fetus lives of off. If these laws are made to better women 's health,as these politicians and supporters say, the criminalization and restrictions of abortion would not