Since abortion has been legalized in 1973, there have been over 53 million abortions in the world, which is way beyond the capacity that it should be. The leading reason for abortion is the young age of the women getting the abortion. Young adults and even young teenagers will have abortions either because they are too ashamed of being pregnant or they are too young and feel that they cannot take care of the baby. “Globally, abortion accounts for 13 percent of women’s deaths during pregnancy
The “Guttmacher Policy Review” reports that “abortion was listed as the official cause of death for almost 2,700 women in 1930.” (guttmacher.org) There were probably many more who did not show up in the statistics. They also point out that the death rate among women from abortion soared in Romania when the Ceausescu regime outlawed abortion in 1966 and dropped dramatically after Ceausescu was overthrown. (guttmacher.org) Making abortion illegal does not stop abortions and it ends up killing many women. Some countries like The Netherlands where abortion is free and legal have lower abortion rates than places like Peru where it is illegal.
Should women have legal access to abortion? Even forty years after the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of legal abortion on January 22, 1973 in the case of Roe v. Wade, the American public still remains split into two opposing teams. The pro-choice team, of which I personally consider myself a member, supports a woman’s right to choose on whether or not to abort her pregnancy. The pro-life team supports the notion that some, if not all, forms of abortion, under particular circumstances, should be outlawed. Many of the arguments made by the pro-life team take a moral, ethical, or religious standpoint in their persuasion of others.
Even though this was to help women get out of a bad marriage, Women would not have anywhere to go when divorced except to rely on another man, as most were not independent. By 1934 there were 37 divorces for every 100 marriages, while there were 154,000 abortions for every 57,000 live births in Moscow. This meant families and marriages were unstable. Under Stalin’s rule in 1936, the face of growing statistics in unstable families led the government to introduce new measures to strengthen family life. Divorce was made more difficult, abortion became a criminal offence except when it was necessary on medical grounds, and wedding rings were restored.
Over 42 million babies have been legally aborted since 1972. In 1972, the case of Roe versus Wade was brought to the Supreme Court and it is one of the most controversial issues involving women's civil right; the case dealt with the right to choose to have an abortion. Most feminist groups supported this case since women felt it was their body and their choice whether to have a baby or not. Excluding rape or incest, abortion should not be allowed because it is an issue of human life being endangered and not the restriction of women’s lives with some rights that may be denied through childbearing. Since I am a pro-life supporter, I am strongly against abortion because abortion in most cases is the deliberate killing of the defenseless among us; this act should be stopped.
Casey charted a new path for abortion regulation in the United States. It displaced the 1989 case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services as the reigning judicial exposition of the constitutional status of abortion and the power of the government to restrict it. Roe v. Wade had seemed on the brink of extinction after Webster. Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. and Thru good Marshall, two of the four justices in Webster who had voted to adhere to Roe, had resigned. They had been replaced by Justices David Souter and Clarence Thomas, both of whom had dodged heavy questioning on Roe v. Wade in their confirmation hearings.
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.
An abortion is defined as the removal of a fetus or embryo from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death. Abortion is not always intentional such as in the case of spontanious abortion, also known as a miscarriage. (MedlinePlus, 2008) In the first twelve weeks, suction-aspiration (also known as vacuum abortion) is the most common surgical procedure. (Healthwise Medical Writer, 2006) Effective in the first trimester of pregnancy, the percentage of all medical abortions in the United States and Europe rises to 10%. (Spitz, I.M.
Doe 1 John Doe Mrs. Lewis English 112 3 March 2012 Annotated Bibliography Abortion is a very controversial topic which affect a lot of people today. An abortion is where you terminate a pregnancy at an early stage. When the dead fetus goes out of the body it is about the size of a quarter sometimes recognizable as an incredibly small baby. You can receive an abortion at any age today. People choose to get an abortion for a couple of different reasons which I will discuss later.
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.