Abortion In America

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The United States Supreme Court is considered the ultimate validation when it comes to legality issues within America. Therefore, one would think that its ruling in 1973 would have led to a slow, but steady easing of the grumbles heard across the nation regarding a particularly touchy subject. In 1973, the justices of the Supreme Court ruled on what is still considered to be a landmark case, regarding what has remained to be one of the United States’ most controversial and heavily debated issues. This “hot topic” in America is abortion. Jane Roe, actually named Norma L. McCorvey, found in 1969 that she was pregnant. She went to Texas where she attempted to abort the unborn fetus. However, she was met with resistance.…show more content…
Throughout the years, many different forms of contraception have been developed. Also, we, as a society, have begun to have more open talks regarding sex and sexuality. Whereas the thought of sexual education in school was unfathomable in the early 1900’s, it is almost standard now in most adolescent course curriculums. These advancements, both in our mental capacities and in our abilities to prevent unwanted pregnancies have perhaps led to less of a need for abortions in America ((Crooks & Baur, 2008). Another key issue for opposition of the legalization of abortions is examining who in America is having abortions. Studies and reports have found that the highest occurrence of legalized abortion in the United States falls within the age group of under fifteen. The table below shows that females age groups of under fifteen and between fifteen and nineteen years old. This indicates that majority of the women in America terminating unwanted pregnancies are adolescents. Perhaps, society should consider the consequences and repercussions that these adolescents may face without the option of…show more content…
Women without the money to pursue such options may have been fortunate enough to find one of the skilled underground abortion providers working for free or for little compensation. Otherwise, they resorted to desperate measures: “back alley” abortions using unsafe, unskilled, and unsanitary procedures, or self-induced abortions, sometimes using a wire coat hanger, douching with bleach, or swallowing turpentine. The momentum for legalizing abortion rose from these circumstances (Crooks & Baur,
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