Higher the Bar for Abortion Rights Jessica Hawkins Composition Class Instructor Jodie Brown Due September 29th, 2012 The United States of America should higher the bar for Abortion. A woman should not be allowed to kill her unborn baby under just any circumstance. An estimated 115,000 babies are killed every day due to Abortion Rights. (Loxafamosity Ministries, 2012) Though abortion is illegal in most states it’s still being done. As a country we all need to agree that under certain cases abortion should be considered, but other than that it’s homicide.
The term abortion most commonly refers to the induced abortion of a human pregnancy. The most common surgical methods of induced abortion is by manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) which consists of removing the fetus or embryo, placenta, and membranes by suction using a manual syringe, while electric vacuum aspiration (EVA) uses an electric pump. Out of the 1.21 Million Abortions in 2008 on 825,564 were legally induced. Also four out of ten unintended pregnancies ended in abortion in 2008. Now the big question is what percentage of all pregnancies end in abortion and that is Twenty-two percent.
Whether it is the right thing to do or not makes no difference, as there are far too many variables to simply say "Yes" or "No". For example, a woman could be raped and or unmarried and be religiously obligated not to give birth to this child. And to deny those such women the right to an abortion would violate the constitutionally guaranteed right provided in the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Other variables include financial situations, inconvienient timing, and health risks to both the mother and
That is a relatively straight-forward viewpoint, compared to pro-choice, which I hold to encompass people who hold that abortion should be legal for at least some alloted time of a pregnancy. So the term "pro-choicer" is an ambiguous one when referenced to generally. Personally, I believe that abortion should be legal for the first and second trimesters, but not the third, so I will defend that viewpoint from here on out. Which means when coming to the case of your daughter, I would not like to have permit abortion, as at that point your daughter would be extensively neurologically developed. Most neurologists hold one of the most defining points of the beginning of life to be between 24 and 27 weeks in a pregnancy, when the child starts emitting a recognizable EEG pattern.
Many of the arguments made by the pro-life team take a moral, ethical, or religious standpoint in their persuasion of others. In order for us to gain a more objective look at the debate with real-world pros and cons, the moral, ethical, and/or religious arguments will not be covered. Abortion has been a topic of controversy in America for almost two hundred years. The earliest known instance of conflict occurred in 1821 when Connecticut outlawed the selling of poisons used to induce abortion in women (Abortion ProCon.org). In 1845, New York began the trend of slapping legal consequences for women who have abortions.
We all want to reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies, but there is no reason to single out abortion among all a woman’s reproductive choices as the one choice which is somehow less valid or acceptable than childbirth, adoption, or other reproductive choices. Abortion is a valid personal decision within the field of health care. Every woman has their own personal reason to have an abortion. There are many reasons women decide abortion is the best choice for them such as, birth control failures, inability to care and support
Since then, attempts have been made by Progressive Conservatives to pass modern abortion laws but have been unsuccessful. Canadian women now have their full right to have the procedure done by professionals. There are over 100,000 legal abortions a year and over 50 institutions that have doctors trained in performing abortions. (Tatalovich,
To say that someone is "pro-life" is to say that the person believes that the government has a right to preserve all human life, regardless of intent or quality-of-life. The "pro-choice" view is that a baby does not have human rights within the mother's womb. Pro-life believes- that even incapable growing babies and undeveloped human life is sacred and must be protected by the government. Abortion they therefore believe must not be legal, nor should it be widely done on an illegal basis. Pro-choice believes- that abortion is the belief that women have the right to choose to abort a baby from their body.
One controversial issue is the topic of abortion. Democrats who are “ Pro- Choice” strongly stand behind Roe v. Wade (a decision made by the Supreme Court ruling that a woman has the right to choose abortion defended by her right to privacy under the due process clause in the Fourteenth amendment). Democrats object to any attempt that takes away that right from a woman regardless of her ability to pay for it. Democrats place confidence behind their opinion that “abortion is an intensely personal decision between a woman, her family, her doctor, and her clergy; there is no place for politicians or government to get in the way”. Granting democrats certainty that women have the choice to abort an unwanted pregnancy, in the event that the woman does choose to continue with the pregnancy Democrats advocate belief in the access of availability to programs such as WIC, pregnancy Medicaid, CHIP, etc.
The right’s each of us has through the United States Constitution protects each woman and their right to choose, our advancement in technology has lowered the mortality rate of women who undergo abortion, and our values have changed. Therefore we cannot use our past laws to govern current abortion laws. Work Cited "Definition of Abortion." Med Terms. MedicineNet.com, Web.