Should We Outlaw Abortion?

Should abortions remain legal, or outlawed?

Would you want someone, your own mother even, end your life? You, a fetus, a starving being just months alive, which’s only life support is of the mother, becomes injected with a salt solution. Suddenly your small minuscule brain erupts from the inside out, and in a matter of minutes, you are sucked out of your home for short term of your life, and into the trash you go. How can this monstrosity be a legalized practice for over 40 years? Ever since that fateful day of the Roe vs. Wade court case, the United States was never the same. Ever since the stomping ground of Pro-Life and Pro-Choice freedom fighters started back in the early 70’s, as the court case above all other court cases within the United States was closed, people have been arguing over this topic for decades. Should or shouldn’t abortion be legal. The topic has been the decision maker for women’s rights, politics, religion, even in everyday conversation. In the norm of American ethics and values, the act of murder is morally wrong. Therefore, the killing of unborn fetuses should be morally wrong as well. Abortion, this unethical practice of terminated unborn fetuses should be outlawed because the baby itself is a human being and has no say in his/her death. The 14th amendment states you should not deprive anyone of life, and because it can cause physical and mental damage to the mother.

In the United states, as early as the 1900’s, abortion had been an illegal medical procedure unless under the special circumstances; rape and incest. But in the early 1970’s, Norma McCovery, a single woman living in Dallas, Texas, was a single parent and pregrant. She was persuaded by friends to falsly say she was raped, in ord...

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...cal School, found significant results in her study of Post Abortion Syndrome, with 73% of women having flashbacks of the abortion experience, and 54% had the visions or nightmares related to the abortion. Some women experience guilt, depression, anger, sexual problems, suicidal urges, drug or alcohol abuse, grief, nightmares, or emotional numbness to name a few. More common behavior issues that normally have occurred: 61% increased their use of alcohol, 65% had thoughts of suicide, 69% were sexually inhibited, 73% had flashbacks of the abortion, 77% experienced an inability to communicate, 81% experienced frequent crying. (Edmonds) And with more research coming out of these findings, more and more doctors have changed views on the matter of allowing abortions to happen, and if they should or shouldn’t be abolished from crediable medical hospitals and clinics.