A woman’s access to abortion is a fundamental right, and withholding that right directly impacts the financial and social well being worldwide. Streamlining abortion to become free and on-demand for women is imperative to a safer world, and will improve the quality of life of everyone living here. Karen Finley, a performance artist and professor at NYU, wrote of the horrors of abortions in the US before they were legal. Her Aunt Mandy supposably died of uterine cancer, but in reality an illegal abortion took her life. At age 50, she lay dead in a basement due to a hatchet job; a gag in her mouth, her body devoid of blood, and rats eating at her insides. This was before Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision allowing doctors to perform
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Since then, back alley tragedies have declined from 1.2 million per year in the 50s and 60s to 5,000 per year today. However, unsafe, often fatal means of terminating a pregnancy is normal life for women in countries where abortion is outlawed. The World Health Organization states that most abortions are unsafe in countries with draconian abortion restrictions. 98 percent of these occur in poor, developing countries where botched abortions are a leading cause of maternal mortality. Countries like Malta, El Salvador, and Nicaragua do not allow the mother to terminate her pregnancy even if it endangers her life, thus their women turn to illegal abortions. The Peruvian government was condemned by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women for not offering abortion services to a 13 year old girl who was was raped by her 34 year old male neighbour. She became pregnant, but knowing she could not acquire a legal abortion, she attempted suicide by jumping off her own rooftop. She lived, but doctors could not operate on her because …show more content…
It is imperative that abortion become easy accessed by anyone, regardless of their income level. The reality is that some women are too poor for an abortion, let alone ready for a new child. By making the procedure free and safe for women all across the globe, women would be able to control when they are financially ready for a child, thus leading to a better life for the child. Low income kids are statistically more often to commit crime than children living in stable, middle class households. They are also more likely to practice unsafe sex, which then leads to a vicious circle of their children being born into poverty. The gap between income and access to abortion is vast, and to combat this, making abortion free for women would significantly benefit the world’s economy by lowering the crime rate, children in foster care, and amount of government aid for low income
Since then, back alley tragedies have declined from 1.2 million per year in the 50s and 60s to 5,000 per year today. However, unsafe, often fatal means of terminating a pregnancy is normal life for women in countries where abortion is outlawed. The World Health Organization states that most abortions are unsafe in countries with draconian abortion restrictions. 98 percent of these occur in poor, developing countries where botched abortions are a leading cause of maternal mortality. Countries like Malta, El Salvador, and Nicaragua do not allow the mother to terminate her pregnancy even if it endangers her life, thus their women turn to illegal abortions. The Peruvian government was condemned by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women for not offering abortion services to a 13 year old girl who was was raped by her 34 year old male neighbour. She became pregnant, but knowing she could not acquire a legal abortion, she attempted suicide by jumping off her own rooftop. She lived, but doctors could not operate on her because …show more content…
It is imperative that abortion become easy accessed by anyone, regardless of their income level. The reality is that some women are too poor for an abortion, let alone ready for a new child. By making the procedure free and safe for women all across the globe, women would be able to control when they are financially ready for a child, thus leading to a better life for the child. Low income kids are statistically more often to commit crime than children living in stable, middle class households. They are also more likely to practice unsafe sex, which then leads to a vicious circle of their children being born into poverty. The gap between income and access to abortion is vast, and to combat this, making abortion free for women would significantly benefit the world’s economy by lowering the crime rate, children in foster care, and amount of government aid for low income