Many women in India died trying illegal abortion as a result of the penal code. Ever since 1971 and the other following years, India’s abortion laws, only qualified doctors under specified circumstances were able to perform abortion on a women in a hospital or clinic. The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, was passed by the Indian Parliament in 1971. The MTP Act of India states all of the conditions under which a pregnancy can be ended or aborted, Some of these are rape, women whose physical or mental health were in danger of extinction by the pregnancy, the women facing the birth of a malformed child or handicapped and many more. The pregnancy must not go beyond twenty weeks to qualify an
When faced with an unexpected pregnancy, how does one make a decision to terminate the baby or not? In our society, many teenage girls are having abortions without their parents’ consent. Why? Well there are several reasons teenagers choose not to tell their parents about their pregnancy. Not only are teen mothers not ready for parenthood; some of them may have parents encouraging them to get the abortion.
In the “Lost Baby Poem,” Lucille Clifton allows a woman to reminisce about the unborn child that she chose to abort. No one knows the circumstances this young woman may have been experiencing at the moment which may have caused her to take the life of the unborn fetus; as a result, the young woman regrets the decision she made. In the first paragraph, an older woman is talking about the self made abortion that she experienced while in her youth. Clifton allows the readers to visualize the abortion of the unborn fetus by stating, “[…] I dropped your almost body down /down to meet the waters under the city/ and run one with the sewage to the sea.” Being flushed down the toilet and swepted into the sewage sounds like a very harsh way for an partially innocent life to be taken; however, no one knows the circumstances surrounding the actions of this young lady. Besides describing the drastic abortion of the unborn fetus, the speaker acknowledges the immaturity level of the young individual stating, “what did I know about waters rushing back/what did I know about drowning/or being drowned.” The individual young lady may not have fully comprehended the outcome of her actions because she seemed shock that fetus drowned when she flushed it down the toilet.
Brooks made a strong political statement about abortion in this poem that could easily be interpreted as pro-life. Though her subject goes back and forth between both good and bad feelings about her aborted children and what could have been, the overall tone of this writing is dark, guilt-ridden and depressing. This poem thought-provokingly addresses a prominent issue for many women at this juncture in the history of America that remains a prominent issue for women even today. “The Mother” was written in 1945, shortly after the Great Depression had ended. Due to the extensive financial hardship that came with that time, many women chose to have abortions for fear that they could not afford to properly care for a new baby.
Abortion Should Be Illegal As many people know, abortion is a procedure to end pregnancy. In the United States, the majority of women getting an abortion are under the age of 25. Although people believe a fetus is not a human until birth, this is not true. Life begins at conception. This debate will continue for centuries.
If she was educated about the importance of prenatal testing Nahla might have been normal today. Sadly, many minority women avoid the distress and discomfot of the medical industry and refuse prenatal care entirely. The skepticism results from doctors failing to effectively communicate the reasons behind such testing and failing to provide the patients with information regarding what the prenatal test is looking for and what such results mean. Because there is a lack of clear communication, some mothers are uncomfortable about recieiving such
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 study focused on women who were turned away from abortion because their baby was too far along and from the results they discovered that “76% of the "turnaways" ended up on unemployment benefits, compared with 44% of the women who had abortions.” These statistics oppose the question of if this is the best situation for the mother and the child. Is it better if the baby is never
In addition, a Tennessee woman died from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy after undergoing an RU-486 abortion.” In addition, At least one woman in France died while others there suffered life-threatening heart attacks from the technique. In U.S. trials conducted in 1995, one woman was known to have nearly died after losing half her blood and requiring emergency surgery. Furthermore, “On November 15, 2004, the FDA reported having received 676 "adverse event" reports concerning RU-486 abortions, including 17 ectopic pregnancies, 72 cases where
Throughout the 48 hours the hormone suitable for fertilising an egg will be lost and the womb lining and embryo will be lost. This method is similar to an early miscarriage; it will be like giving birth except the baby will not come out alive. For someone who is 7-15 weeks pregnant they will use the Vacuum Aspiration method. This method takes 5-10 minutes as a suction tube will be inserted into the womb to remove the foetus by pulling it apart little by little and the surrounding tissue. A late medical abortion method is used for women who are 9-20 weeks pregnant.