Biggs On Abortion

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Abortion in the United States Abortion has always been an indecisive topic in the United States. Whether it should be legal or not, whether it should be determined by a doctor, whether a woman has any say-so in it at all, or even the rights of the baby before it’s born. I am going to share with you the opinions of different people and their view on abortion. In the first article, “Understanding Why Women Seek Abortions in the U.S.” by Antonia Biggs, the author is trying to understand the reasoning behind why women seek abortions. In most cases women do not publicly discuss their experience of having an abortion. Why? Mostly to comply with already set social norms, and protect themselves from any judgment. Biggs gathered the data she used…show more content…
Wade and Beyond: Forty years of legal abortion in the United States” Joffe talks about the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States, and what the benefits and costs have been of this landmark decision. “More than any other issue, the abortion war symbolizes the still contested concerns originally brought forward by second-wave feminists in the late 1960’s-the changing relationship between the genders, the place of women in the public sphere, the legitimacy of sexual activity separated from procreation.” (Joffe…show more content…
Other proposals have been made such as an embryo having the same rights as a grown human being. When does it stop? When do we let the woman decide what she can do to her own body without the judgment of other people? Who has the right to tell you “aborting a baby is wrong”? I am personally pro-choice. I don’t necessarily believe abortion is “right”, but I also can’t completely believe it is “wrong.” I agree with Biggs. You should understand the reasoning behind any decision before passing of judgment. You never know somebody’s story till you’ve taken a walk in his or her

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