Abortion Should Stay Legal

miscarriage Should Stay good By Ariam Abraham Professor Maria Mollinedo English 102 9 December 2011 Abstract The topic of miscarriage is angiotensin-converting enzyme of the near controersial of our times. It discusses human interaction where ethics, emotions and fairness come to keep upher. on that point ar different points of views towards stillgiving birth. These views fag end be broken rase into 2 categories, Pro- intent and Pro- resource. E re bothy adept has their own views and opinions despite what several volume whitethorn believe, stillbirth is neither safe nor wrong. A pro-lifer is against stillbirth.Pro-lifers believe that from the moment of conception, the embryo is a break cut back and this life imposes a moral obligation to preserve it. It has a brain and a heart therefore it overly has a rightfield to life. pietism plays a big role on pro-life. Abortion is against the parole and nighreligious slewdont believe in it either. On the former(a) handa p ro-choicer would feel that the decision to abort a maternal quality is that of the be bring downs and the recite has no right to interfere. Abortion is a womensown right hand choice. Women should non be sop upd to ache babies they dont pauperization or bent ready for.They must be able to decide what happens to them and put virtuoso over a safe plus heavy style of doing so. Women be in control of their own bo demotes and lives. Legislators down no right to interfere. Abortion wholeows us to choose what we lack for ourselves, and it in like manner helps us to follow family planning. We return any(prenominal) right to choose whether we want to have an spontaneous stillbirth or not. Religious people dont support it but since it is their belief and decision they should not force other people to be handle them. It has been proven above that all their arguments were not full true.The reasons why women have miscarriages vary. It may be a case of rape,physical or psychol ogical condition. A choice must choose to be availableto prevent the birth of uncalled-for clawren, to avoid damage to the boor aswell as to nurtureion the emotional and physical wellness of women. Abortion is a tough choice and the decisionshould be a psycheal ace, without interference of administration or specialinterest assorts. Outline I. Abortion is a very controversial pillowcase that has been continually argued over for the past few long time and probably for numerous an(prenominal) years to come.A. Abortion is the closing of a fetus or unborn child bandage the child is tranquillize in the female parents womb. B. Abortion in the United States has been legal in every ground since the United States Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, on January 22, 1973 C. There are two sides to abortion, the pro-life and prochoice. a. Pro-life are people who are against abortion. b. Pro-choice are people who support abortion. II. Religion and philosophy thinking shouldn t affect the law of abortion. A. A fetus is not a person. B.Pro-life people shouldnt push other people to believe their religion. C. The pro-lifes arguments against abortion are provn to be false. a. Women having an abortion have been decreasing since 1973. III. Abortion playes a big role in some cases. A. A pregnancy from rape is reform to be avoided. B. Incest children face a lot of difficulties in being authoritative by their society. C. Woman should have an abortion if her pregnancy is uncompitible with her health IV. Abortion has allowed us to choose what we want for ourselves, and it also helps us to follow family planning. A.Newlawsthat are being developed dress it harder and harder for women todealwith the problems of pregnancies. Abortion is a very controversial subject that has been continually argued over for the past few years and probably for many years to come. The main controversy is should abortion be legalized? Before we get to the answer, lets eldest define the word abortion. According to Tom Head Abortion is the international terminology of a pregnancy after conception. It allows women to put an end to their pregnancies, but involves killing the undeveloped embryo or fetus (1).This destruction of a fetus or unborn child while the child is still in the mothers womb lot be done by almost anyone from the mother herself to even to abortionist by clinics set up especially for this purpose. Since abortion involves killing a fetus, it is considered as a sensitive subject to discuss, because every person around the military personnel have a different view and opinion more or less it. As history tells us Abortion in the United States has been legal in every state since the United States Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, on January 22, 1973 (Lewis 1).Since then(prenominal), there have been many debates among the citizens whether the law is right or wrong. There are two sides to this abortion topic the pro-life, which are those who are aga inst abortion, and the pro-choice are those who believe it is the charrs right to choose if she wants to have an abortion or not. These two groups offer different solutions to a problem. The pro-life solution is to have the child and basically live with it. They believe abortion is not an answer. The pro-choice solution is abortion because of reasons they feel are appropriate.Although abortion is chastely and ethically wrong, should it be legal for victims of rape or incest who have no other alternative? To suppose the Ameri gages view on abortion, a popular TV channel in the United States did a retrospect on over 1133 people over the age of 18 in 2004. Generally, 57 percent in this ABCNEWS poll separate abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 43 percent voted against it. I testament point out the argumentative reasons for abortion to stay legalized by implys of out the paper. legion(predicate) famous and respected people have talked about abortion, like obtain Teresa who was the winner of Nobel rate for Peace in 1979. She argues, If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want (Barbier and Goree 98). Since Mother Teresa was very religious women what she said solve sense but I totally disagree with what she said. cleaning a fetus is not the similar as killing a person.The word murder is practically use by pro-lifers to describe abortion. Murder meansdeliberate and un comelyified killing of another person containing intent. How can any clay see an evil intent in a chars decisionto interrupt pregnancy if it is a result of rape or incest? A woman cannotbear the thought of having a child that would be a constant reminder ofwhat had happened on such and such a day, such and such manage of years ago. She doesnt want to kill a sis she wants to interrupt the growth of anembryo so that it leave not become a baby. She interrupts potential life. notwithstanding potential life is but that, potential.Theres an argument until these long time that a fetus is a person that is indistinguishable from the rest of us and that it deserves rights equal to womens. On this head there is a tremendous spectrum of religious, philosophical, scientific, and medical examination opinion. Its been argued for centuries. Fortunately, our society has recognized that each woman must be able to make this decision, based on her own conscience. To impose a law defining a fetus as a person, granting it rights equal to or superior to a womans thinking, feeling, intended human being is arrogant and absurd.It only serves to diminish women. A fetus is like a body part in womens body not an individual person and can only be recognized as a person since the day it is born. It is not registered as a citizen in the governments book and is not even considered as existing pers on. So killing a fetus can be called as getting rid of a body part. And, it is not the governments duty to teach the citizens how to love. batch learn about love from their parents, from their religion and relatives and society. Government cant take a shit a law based on how it is acquittance to affect the behavior of the citizens.It is like we cant have a war because it is not nice to kill people. What if another country attacks us? be we going to sit and wait until we die? We should protect out country and our selves and the same goes with abortion, we have to protect ourselves if we see harm is coming to us. On the other hand, Abortion is a difficult issue when it is viewed from a religious pointof view. On one hand there is the Commandment against murder, which begsthe question of whether a fetus is a human or not. There is a passage inthe Bible, which deals specifically with the act of causing woman toabort a pregnancy. In hejira 2122-25 we read And if men struggle and spi got a woman with child so that she has a miscarriage, yet there is nofurther injury, he shall be fined as the womans husband may demand of him,and he shall pay as the judges decide. just if there is any further injury,then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, nerve center for eye, tooth fortooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruisefor bruise( New Revised Standard Version, Exodus 2122). In this passage we happen a woman losing her child by being stuck by men who are fighting.Rather than it being a capital offense,however it is looked as a civil outlet, with the render to be takingthe participants to court for a settlement. But, as we read on, if thewoman is killed, a life for a life, then the men who killed her shall bekilled. Some have needed that the life for a life part is talking aboutthe baby, but in this passage we also read, Tooth for a tooth. Fetuses/babies do not have odontiasis when they are born. Thus we can see thatif the baby is lost, it does not require a death clock time it is notconsidered murder. But if the woman is lost, it is considered murder andis punished by death.I do not want to say that abortion is Biblical, but Ijust want to show that there can be arguments on both sides and a judgmentagainst people in Gods name should be stopped. As we have seen above every individual have their own opinion on abortion, depending on their religion and beliefs. If the pro- life group doesnt support abortion they dont have to do it. The law doesnt force you to have abortion in any case. So people against abortion due to their religions or beliefs shouldnt protest against abortion because it is their private preference. Religious ideology is no foundation for any law.Freedom of religion is guaranteed to any citizen in the United States, so why would the beliefs and values of one religion mandate true(a) laws for all citizens? It would be unfair, unjust andimmoral. We do not have laws against eating f ish, nor do we have laws that declare it is legal to sell ones daughter, rape someone, or keep a person as knuckle down -all things that are promoted in religious text. There are also few pro-life people that claim women are using abortion as a birth control. By that they mean women are going to be irresponsible and give have unprotected sex since abortion is legal.This is proven to be sour by Ms Heather Boonstra. She is a Senior Public Policy Associate in the Guttmacher Institutes Washington, DC. On the article Abortion in Womens Lives that she published in 2006 she states, from time to time the number of women having abortion is decreasing (3). Here is here summarized graph. pic As we can see in the graph the number of women having abortion has been going down since 1981, which proves that women are using abortion in special cases not as birth control. Other than that, abortion plays a big role in some special cases.We dont hear it that often but there is sexual intercourse a mid two people called incest. In definition Incest is sexual intercourse between close relatives that is unlawful in the jurisdiction where it takes place and is conventionally considered a taboo. The term may apply to sexual activities between individuals of close daub relationship members of the same household step relatives related by adoption or marriage and members of the same clan or lineage (Stritof). Even though it is between families it can be taken as sexual bedevilment if it is between an adult and an under age.It is not accepted in out society. People consider it as the nastiest thing that human being would do. If by any chance someone becomes a victim of incest, their family and friends ordain isolate them for their rest of their lives. Likewise, when a girl is assail, she feels dreadful. The trauma of being raped could break her down and make her depressed and that is only the beginning. afterward she gets raped, in her own eyes, she has no respect or self-esteem for herself and then comes the superfluity. Her reputation in the society will be damaged permanently and everyone will look down upon her.Even her own familys reputation will be tainted. If she is forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy, the result is unwanted children. After the unwanted baby is born, the childhood that he will get will not be the shell one because of how it was originated. At home, the raped woman would not be a good mother and would be cruel to the baby. Therefore, because of this abnormal type of childhood, when the child grows up and becomes a teenager, he will often strain to crime and be involved in gangs and drugs. For example, 40% of African-American kids grow up by a single mother due to unplanned sex or poverty.And 20% of those kids drop out in middle school (Hanson 141). Once a kid stops going to school he or she have a high chance of doing illegal things in order to get money. They are among societys most tragic cases, often un missiond-for, unloved, brutalized, and abandoned. Those children have a very strong chance of getting hurt or getting arrested or in a worse case scenario, be killed. All this could be prevented if the mother was allowed to get an abortion early on and she would not have to face all the shame and embarrassment for herself and her family. This is not good for children, for families, or for the country.Children need love and families who want and will care for them. Therefore, women who are raped or victims of incest should not be forced to carry out a pregnancy. Odds are that 1 in 3 women will be victims of sexual violence in her lifetime (Mahkorn and Dolan182). Does that mean that 33% of all women should be forced to carry out a pregnancy from this violation? Those people invariably dont tell that they have been in that situation until the woman becomes pregnant and all her relatives find out. The baby they have is going to go through a lot since he is born between two family members.Isolation, bulling, and it is most possible that he will involve in illegal medicines or drags just to put himself in the mood since he is most of the time unhappy. These are few of the bad things the child will face, as he got older. This poor baby will have a lot of problems just because of his parents made a mistake. Why would their child take the punishment for what his parents did? Abortion is the only choice here. Many would argue that these women could endure the pregnancy, fall outing nearly a year of her life simply re-living the rape and its movementuate over and over again, to give up a baby at the end of it for adoption.However, we all are aware of the fact that there are millions of unwanted children awaiting adoption as we speak who remain unclaimed in fact, UNICEF estimates that there are 210 million orphans in the world right now. If they have no one willing to be their parent or guardian, why would another baby have a better chance? In other word abortion will help in decreasing wo rlds population. Similarly, World health organization posted an interesting article about women and pregnancy saying, every(prenominal) minute, at least one woman dies from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth that means 529 000 women a year.In addition, for every woman who dies in childbirth, around 20 more encounter injury, infection or ailment approximately 10 million women each year (10). It is shocking that a lot of women die during pregnancy. People against abortion think that a woman must have the baby once she is pregnant, but that is ridiculous. There are many women in a situation that they cant have a baby. Women have to avoid pregnancy if she has some kind of diseases that gets worse with pregnancy, because it could affect her health or the babys health.For example a breast cancer women-getting chemotherapy should not get pregnant because she does not turn in the effect of chemotherapy on the outcome for the fetus. In this case if a women gets pregnant a ccidentally she should think about her health first and her babys health second, and have an abortion beforehand the fetus gets older. Most people now agree that if the mothers life is in danger abortionis acceptable. It seems unreasonable to let both die when one can be saved. There are manyother situations in which abortion can be morallyjustified. One thing is obvious.These pregnancies were not planned andthey are unwanted. Children born to these mothers are biologicalaccidents. In my opinion it is sinful to bring innocent and defenselesschildren into the world when theywill not be cared for. All over theglobe these are children starving, being raped, dying, being beaten upbecause theyre unwanted. They suffer abuses from which they neverrecover. Medical researchers also show that unwanted children whose mothersrefused an abortion suffer from heartrending psychological disturbances end-to-end their life (Morgentaler, 52).Another reason why I believe that availability of choice i s vital forwomen is that if a woman decides to have an abortion, she will do anything to end her pregnancy. This is the reality. There is no such thing as a one hundred-per cent effective contraceptive which of course results inunwanted pregnancies. From the illegal days we eff many ways in whichwomen aborted themselves. Many women would introduce caustic detergentsubstances into themselves,producing major burns of the vaginal wall and systemic poisoning.Others would insert a tablet of potassium, which led toserious lesions. Number of women tried to unloose their pregnancies byintroducing knitting needles, coat hangers, or other metal or woodenobjects into their uteruses. Some women threw themselves down flights ofstairs, and some pumped air into the uterus by means of a small pump usedto blow up bicycle tires. ineligible abortions were performed by people withno or littlemedical knowledge, in back rooms, in a non-hygienicenvironment. All this led to tremendous number of deaths b ut did not stopthe abortions.Anyone who thinks that outlawing abortion makes abortion goaway is a fool. It makes it dangerous and it makes it shameful. Womenwill always get abortions. And if we are truly concerned about human lifeand if this is not just a yowl slogan for us we should make abortion safeand clean cognitive operation instead of trying to make women feel guilty. Additionally, making abortion legal can decrease illegal abortion. Lets look. The side by side(p) chart was used on the floor of the US Senate during the tumultuous debate on abortion in 1981. It was compiled from official U. S. tatistics. As we can see on the graph, abortion was first legalized on 1967 and we can all the way see that after that year the line started to drop sharply which shows that the death of women due to illegal abortion decreased. Simply, Laws against abortion do not stop abortion they simply make it less safe. The number of women who get abortions does not change when it goes from bein g legal to illegal, or vice versa. The only thing that changes is more women die. pic Opponents of abortion seem to think that women who choose to haveabortions typically do so thoughtlessly.They do not know that a decisionin itself is already agonizingand a very painful thing for women. Butcan you really understand the issue of abortion unless you have been in thesituation of possibly having one? What some people do not seem tounderstand is that abortion is not an easy way out. This issue concernedwith badness, and if there is badness there is bitterness and worseness. Woman herself has to make a decision, on which is which. Many people try toforce their beliefs on others and judge them for their actions. Thesepeople need to judge themselves before they start to judge others.There is a question that should be answered. Should government be involved in personal matters such as abortion? In my opinion government should not interfere with citizens personal problems. Having an abortion is the same as having a kidney surgery. Once a doctor tells you in what condition your kidney is, it is your decision to have a surgery depending on what the doctor said. Even your kidney is in the worst condition you still have a choice to stay without medication. That doesnt consider as a suicide by the law. It also goes the same with abortion.Would you allow the government to tell you if you could have a kidney transplant or a blood transfusion? Of course not, the fact that we even consider, let alone allow, governments to regulate a medical procedure is both illogical and foolish. Depending on your health, your babys health, and your babys future you should have the right to decide weather you want to have an abortion or not. Therefore my theory is that people who spend so much time, energy, and money on anti-abortion campaigns should instead spend it on the precious children they say need saving so muchthe ones who are alive and parentless.Imagine if all the funds spent on all those billboards and flyers and campaigns were instead either spent adopting or donating to places that are overrun with orphaned children, perhaps some actual credibility would be given to these people who claim to love children so much. Also, there is the fact of the matter of the more than one million homeless youth in America alone. The number one instrument for a child being homeless is physical or sexual abuse at home. perhaps these child-lovers should step in and care for these already-born children as well. If those people really want to stop abortion, they should turn to methods thatdowork.These include comprehensive sex education and safe, affordable contraceptives. Unfortunately, as illogical as it sounds, the people who are most against abortion are also often most against these preventative measures. If they truly wanted to bowdlerize the number of abortions that occur, they would embrace these methods. Additionally, if the Supreme Court ever declared abortion illeg al, only the poor will be adversely affected. The rich will purchase a round-trip ticket to one of the European Countries, have an abortion there and return. The poor, do not have enough sometimes even to ay for the bus fare to go downtown. The impact of such a law would be disproportionate. This is in fact what happened before 1973 (before Roe), when abortion was illegal. We must learn from history otherwise we are condemned to repeat it. People who oppose abortion do so usually on religious and moral grounds. They can continue with their moral standards, no one is asking them to have an abortion in the event of rape or incest or some other medical reason. We just ask to be let alone. There is nothing more private to a woman then the right to regulate her own fertility and no one has a right to tell her otherwise.not in U. S. A. not in this land of the free which guarantees individual and constitutional rights? Choice is a constitutional right, the Supreme Court says so. Michael Mo nahan is the author of non-profit organization called the Heritage House and in is article wrong Abortion he says, Id still worry that if you forbid abortion, it will just go back to back-alley but butchery and lots of mothers dying. (1). I totally agree with him, stopping abortion will be a totally disaster and we will see more death of women due to illegal abortions.As I mentioned through out the paper, abortion should be the mother and the father choice to do, not the law or the government, because it is important when the mother can have a baby due to health problem, when the baby have no future, when a pregnancy occurs under a circumstances that is not accepted on the society ETC. Newlawsthat are being developed make it harder and harder for women todealwith the problems of pregnancies. Iflawswere adapted leave the choice up to the families of the newly conceived, it would make their lives and their choices a lot easier.My personal belief is that each woman should have a rig ht to decidewhether she wants to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. For reasons ofwomens right to self-determination, protection of their health,adequatecare of children which are born and in order to prevent child abuse andmental disease, easy price of admission to abortion is a must. Most abortions occurbecause contraception failed, because of a rape or because of a seriousmedical conditionof the mother, which could lead to her death. In thesesituations abortion is often the only way that prevents the birth of anunwanted child or saves a mothers life.We have seen that abortion is really important to the society. It has allowed us to choose what we want for ourselves, and it also helps us to follow family planning. We have every right to choose whether we want to have an abortion or not. Religious people dont support it but since it is their belief and decision they should not force other people to be like them. It has been proven above that all their arguments were not fully true. The reasons why women have abortions vary. It may be a case of rape,physical or psychological condition.A choice must need to be availableto prevent the birth of unwanted children, to avoid damage to the child aswell as to safeguard the emotional and physical health of women. Preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of theanti-abortion forces what they really want is control. Control over ourbehavior and power over women. Abortion is a tough choice and the decisionshould be a personal one, without interference of government or specialinterest groups. Losing safe and legal abortion would mean reducing womento childbearing vessels.It would mean turning our backs on thetechnology we have, and it will also devalue women as independent humanbeings. It would bring more meaningless deaths from the illegal and self-induced abortions and more pain for women. working Cited Barbier, Jean, and Georges Goree. Mother Teresa The Love of Christ. New York Harper Row, 19 82. Print. Boonstra, Heather. 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