I want to talk about the pros and cons of abortion. I know this can be a highly controversial topic, but it’s something that needs to be talked about. Abortion isn’t something that is talked about in society much. Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, but unlike a miscarriage, this happens intentionally. There has been a lot of talk about the attempts to overturn Roe V Wade. While it may be controversial, I think it’s important to talk about and go over the pros and the cons of abortion so that way you can see the perspective from both sides.
There are quite a few pros to abortion. One major thing that is important is protecting the health of the person who is pregnant. Sometimes when a woman gets pregnant, the pregnancy implants in a wrong part of a body and can be deadly to a woman if it isn’t terminated. Sometimes termination of a pregnancy can be the safest thing medically for a woman. Another pro to abortion is sadly, there are cases of incest and rape that happen to women and a pregnancy can occur from that. A women shouldn’t be forced to carry her attacker’s child. The things that could do to a woman’s mental health and well-being are astronomical. The third pro to abortion is sometimes people fall on hard times, or they already have kids and are struggling, and they know that bringing another child into this world that they know won’t be taken care of in the proper way, so the smart option for them financially and in this economy would be to terminate the pregnancy. It’s also important to not try to deny a women access to her reproductive care. If a woman is denied an abortion, the chances of her trying to go somewhere else or do it herself at home and potentially harm herself are higher, than if she is able to go to a clinic and get the help professionally.
Even though there are pros to abortion, this is still a topic that is extremely controversial. Some people (especially religious people) think and believe that life starts at conception and that the termination of a pregnancy is murder. A big reason for people believing this is their religious views. One con for abortion is the belief that people have that abortion can just be used as what people refer to as a form of birth control and that if people have the option to have an abortion, they just won’t be personally responsible for the choices they make. Another con or concern of abortion is the effect that having an abortion could have on a woman’s mental and emotional health. Not everyone will have negative mental or emotional effects from it, some people worry that people will have grief, guilt, or even depression over their choice to have the abortion (no matter what the situation). Some people will try to argue and say that even if a woman doesn’t want to keep her baby that they should still carry the pregnancy to term and place for adoption. The issue with this is that pregnancy is very hard on a woman’s body mentally, physically, and emotionally. Pregnancy changes you.
To conclude this paper, I want to say that I’m not trying to convince someone one way or the other. Abortion is an extremely personal decision, and a woman must make that choice for herself. I don’t think any man should be making or having any medical say so over a woman’s body, at all. It’s important to let a person keep their autonomy and feel like they have a say in the care they receive and what they do for their body. Being neutral and being able to understand both sides of abortion is pertinent for the public disclosure and development.
If the fetus is a person with the rights of a person, it has a right to life, and abortions can only be justified when a life is in danger. If the fetus is not a person with the rights of a person, then the state has no business telling women and doctors whether they can do an abortion. So, how does a government in a country that has no official state religion decide when or if a fetus or embryo is a person with the same rights as any child already born and living? From the 1970s to 2022, the implied but unstated right to privacy allowed decisions about abortions to be a matter for doctors and mothers to determine, only restricted by the viability of the fetus. When the fetus would have a chance of surviving outside the womb, the state would consider it a person, and only allow abortions in extreme medical situations where the fetus would suffer and die quickly after birth, or the mother's life was at risk. After 2022, the Supreme court decided that the right to privacy was not implied in the Constitution (my legal interpretation is that this was bad history and a bad interpretation of the Constitution). Since the Court did not want to establish one standard of the status of a fetus for the whole country, they decided that each state could make a determination based on local sensibilities.
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