"No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg." -Frederica Mathewes-Green. A few common reason why women get an abortion are financial instability and negative impact on the mother’s mental health and/or career/education. While most Democrats believe that females have full control over if they want an abortion or not because if they do not abort, the child will be born and raised with multiple psychological issues, most Republicans argue that no female should get an abortion under any circumstances because every child’s life matters and if a female cannot take care of her child, she should give them up for foster care.
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According to Allie Bidwell of U.S. News, “[children] who are exposed to poverty at a young age often have trouble academically later in life. But according to new research out of the Washington University School of Medicine, poverty also appears to be associated with smaller brain volumes in areas involved in emotion processing and memory.” (Bidwell 1). She also stated that at a St. Louis-based univeristy, there was a team analyzing brain scan of 145 children and those brain scans concluded that “poverty also appears to alter the physical makeup of a child's brain; those children exposed to poverty at an early age had smaller volumes of white and cortical gray matter, as well as hippocampal and amygdala volumes.” (Bidwell 1). Gray matter processes information and the hippocampus stores long-term memory, while white matter connects the gray …show more content…
While they have the intentions of the child being fostered into a loving family, “[an] inquiry into the Trenton, New Jersey foster care system that year found that up to 1 in 5 children within their foster system were abused at a foster home.” (Terez Malka 1). Since there is approximately 415,000 children in foster care each year, 83,000 kids are physically abused. The average time a child stays in Foster Care is two years, and in those two years with abuse a child can experience a high level of psychological damage. Stated by Time, “in the largest study yet to use brain scans to show the effects of child abuse, researchers have found specific changes in key regions in and around the hippocampus in the brains of young adults who were maltreated or neglected in childhood. These changes may leave victims more vulnerable to depression, addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).” (Szalavitz 1). Since mental illnesses such as depression, addiction, and PTSD do not have cures, the child will have to lives with those forever. So, therefore, putting a child in foster care to eliminate mental disorders and illnesses does not work, and it can create more issues for the
To start, Democrats …show more content…
According to Allie Bidwell of U.S. News, “[children] who are exposed to poverty at a young age often have trouble academically later in life. But according to new research out of the Washington University School of Medicine, poverty also appears to be associated with smaller brain volumes in areas involved in emotion processing and memory.” (Bidwell 1). She also stated that at a St. Louis-based univeristy, there was a team analyzing brain scan of 145 children and those brain scans concluded that “poverty also appears to alter the physical makeup of a child's brain; those children exposed to poverty at an early age had smaller volumes of white and cortical gray matter, as well as hippocampal and amygdala volumes.” (Bidwell 1). Gray matter processes information and the hippocampus stores long-term memory, while white matter connects the gray …show more content…
While they have the intentions of the child being fostered into a loving family, “[an] inquiry into the Trenton, New Jersey foster care system that year found that up to 1 in 5 children within their foster system were abused at a foster home.” (Terez Malka 1). Since there is approximately 415,000 children in foster care each year, 83,000 kids are physically abused. The average time a child stays in Foster Care is two years, and in those two years with abuse a child can experience a high level of psychological damage. Stated by Time, “in the largest study yet to use brain scans to show the effects of child abuse, researchers have found specific changes in key regions in and around the hippocampus in the brains of young adults who were maltreated or neglected in childhood. These changes may leave victims more vulnerable to depression, addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).” (Szalavitz 1). Since mental illnesses such as depression, addiction, and PTSD do not have cures, the child will have to lives with those forever. So, therefore, putting a child in foster care to eliminate mental disorders and illnesses does not work, and it can create more issues for the