Free Argumentative Essays: The Freedom Of Being Pro-Choice

Professor: Genci Shehu

Student: Nikola Zemani

The Freedom of Being Pro-Choice. An American saying goes like this: “Pro-life is ‘I know what’s best for you.’ Pro-choice is ‘You know what’s best for you.’” This saying stuck with me for a long time. At first I was skeptical about this proverb, thinking to myself how terrifying abortion is. How terrifying it is to deny the right to life to an unborn child. But after further researching into this issue, I began to understand how different my true feelings about this matter were. How every time we strip a woman from her right of choice, we dig a deeper hole in the mess called “hypocrisy”. How every time we deprive a woman from her right of choice, we make things more difficult for her. Every woman should have the right to decide what’s best for her body, her health, her family and her financial future. Abortion was declared as a nationwide fundamental right by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973. The court argued in the 1973 “Roe versus Wade” case that the 14th Amendment extended to a

Likewise, a fetus does not feel pain. A human is considered feasible when it is able to withstand life outside of the fetus. The case we aforementioned (Roe v. Wade) states that “the term ‘person’, as worded in the 14th Amendment, does not include the unborn.” According to the NY Times (Belluck, 2013), a board of neuroscientists from Great Britain’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, say the cortex is essential for pain perception, which is not developed till the 26th week of gravidity after the majority of abortions are finalized. This statement was later backed by American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 2012, affirming there is no legit scientific indication of a fetus experiencing pain. Abortions late into a pregnancy are very uncommon and are controlled by certain state