The Importance Of Legalizing Abortion

Of all political issues today, whether or not abortion should be legal is one of the most long-standing and controversial. To some, abortion is a medical procedure that should lie entirely in the hands of the woman it’s being performed on. To others, it’s a malicious and immoral destruction of innocent life. However, despite the controversy surrounding it, it is undeniably important to supply safe, legal abortions to those who need them.
First and foremost, there 's the obvious issue of bodily autonomy. Forcing another human being to give up control of their body to save the life of another would be in any other situation illegal. Take for instance: If my sister needed a kidney transplant and I was the only person on the planet that was compatible, they wouldn’t be able to take that kidney without my legal consent. Even if she would surely die without it, no one would be able to force me to …show more content…
Outlawing abortions entirely would prevent women from obtaining necessary medical procedures. Sometimes a fetus will fail to attach to the uterine wall, or will hemorrhage and cause the mother to hemorrhage as well. In other cases, the mother is at high risk of or certain to miscarriage, and abortion is necessary to terminate the pregnancy safely before it occurs. Some stillborn children are aborted rather than allowed to force the mother to go through a painful labour only to end up with a dead child. Pre-eclampsia, which usually occurs in the third trimester and gets progressively worse, is a condition in which the pregnancy causes the mother’s blood pressure to rise and kidneys/liver to shut down, putting her at risk for seizures (at which point it is classified as eclampsia), stroke, and death. All of these are clearly valid reasons for receiving an