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¶ … Abortion Should be Legal
There are at least three compelling reasons that abortion should be legal. These include abortion in the case of rape or incest, abortion in the case where a woman's health is at risk, and abortion as a matter of choice. Further, these reasons have been discussed and analyzed ad nauseum and the end result after many brilliant minds have considered the issue is that abortion is legal (at least under specific circumstances). The only reason that a woman should not be able to have an abortion is in the case where it has been documented that that particular woman is using it as a means of birth control.
When a woman (or girl) becomes pregnant as a result of incest or rape it is a direct result of a violent act upon her person. Keep in mind that only 1% of all abortions fall into this category, yet for this reason alone abortion must be legal (Guttmacher Institute, 2011). If not, a person who has already suffered tremendous mental and physical anguish would be forced to continue suffering. Even without becoming pregnant, some women and children never recover from the traumatic experience. Moreover, pregnancy itself can cause depression...
Adding the physical and mental burden of carrying an unwanted fetus for nine months to the victim of a horrendous crime against her person is morally reprehensible. She would be forced to have a constant reminder of the damage done to her body. Add to the mental and physical anguish (carrying a fetus to term can be extremely difficult under the best circumstances) the monetary expenses associated with having a child. Without the opportunity to abort the fetus, the victim of this crime would be forced to be responsible for the cost of prenatal care, maternity clothes, loss of work, and footing the bill for the actual delivery of the child.
Additionally no woman or girl should be required to carry a fetus to term and deliver that child when doing so will cause her to have adverse effects on her health. This includes both mental and physical. These health issues include but are not limited to anemia, depression, ectopic pregnancy, gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, hyperemesis gravidarum, placenta previa, placenta abruption, and toxemia (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010). Any number of these can cause severe physical pain and problems to the mother. In the absolute worst scenarios, the mother's life can actually be at stake. For this reason alone abortion should be legal. Under no circumstances should a…
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Abortion Debate With the growing awareness regarding gender roles and their due rights, the number of misunderstandings and misapprehensions has also considerably augmented. Abortion, by some is considered the right of a woman or of the parents of the unborn child, by some a crime and by many others a debatable and a highly controversial issue. However, it has been observed that the underlying aspects of the issue under consideration are
Abortion Aborting a living human fetus is morally wrong because taking one's life away from them is "one of the greatest losses one can suffer" (Marquis, 1989, p. 4) and causing that person to suffer that great a loss is a morally wrong thing to do. There is a plethora of material on abortion -- both pro-choice and anti-abortion -- that focuses on how to best determine what is a human,
Abortion means the early removal of a human fetus, whether impulsively as in a miscarriage or unnaturally caused by surgical or chemical abortion. As of today, the most general usage of this term abortion stands for the artificially caused abortion. A decision by Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton that authorizes abortion was passed over by the Supreme Court in 1973 that allowed abortion for any basis like medical,
Women who are otherwise responsible can become pregnant but out of no fault of their own. Keeping abortion legal ensures that all women have the right to determine their own destiny; no woman should be forced to carry a child who was actively trying to prevent pregnancy in the first place. Even if a woman was trying to become pregnant she might need to get an abortion in cases
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The pro-choice group really does not have an argument other than the right to choose. It is, unfortunately, not much of a choice when it involves killing a living thing without reason. The political ramifications have reached such a point that the abortion is the only medical procedure that has no age restrictions (or require parental consent). Abortion also goes against the scientific laws of nature. In the creative scheme