Persuasive Essay On Abortion

Rosamund is terrified of sex and uses both Roger and Joe as a means of escape. She ends up having sex with a man she thought might be bisexual and ends up getting pregnant. Rosamund has money and can afford an abortion but she chooses an impractical way to kill her fetus. It makes you question whether or not she ever wanted to kill the baby. A bottle of gin doesn’t seem like a reasonable method. She states she doesn’t like being alone. By having a child she will always be with someone. “My sister has babies, nice babies, and seemed to like them […] there was no reason why I shouldn’t have one either, it would serve me right, I thought, for having been born a woman in the first place” (pg.17). It is her duty to have this child.

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It goes with the notion of pregnancy not being attractive, especially in the street. Even today I never hear anyone say, “Oh, your bump is adorable. You’re all belly” to other pregnant women. Instead I hear and am guilty of saying, “How are you feeling? Does your back hurt yet? Are you tired? I’m sure pregnancy is unappealing for many, especially if your stomach is huge and you can’t even shave your own legs, thus dresses and skirts are out of the question and instead you just wear loose pants, or the same maternity clothes.

When she is the waiting room with other pregnant women, she says, “It struck me that I felt nothing in common with any of these people […] that I felt a stranger and a foreigner there, yet I was one of them, I was like them too, I was trapped in a human limit for the first time in my life, and I was going to have to learn how to live inside it.

Rosamund’s friend picked her career over having her child. She arrives at a man’s house to get an abortion. After speaking with her he decides she is unfit for this procedure, called her insensitive because of a potential breakdown she may have. He decides who can have an abortion and who cannot? Women are not in control of their own