Abortion In Today's Society

Abortion is a very controversial topic in today’s society; everyone has their own opinion on it. I believe fully that it is solemnly a woman’s choice what she does with her body. Others who don’t agree with my opinion give out arguments that I believe are untrue, such as abortion being psychologically, physically and emotionally damaging to the woman who receives one.
The biggest argument I see about abortion is abortion is the murder of an innocent being, so I started my research there. Many people fail to realize when life actually begins, claiming that it begins when we form in our mother’s uterus. Many view abortion as the killing of innocent lives, however, human life does not begin until we are able to adapt, reproduce, etc. Personhood begins only after a fetus is able to survive …show more content…
The fetus’ health is directly related to the mother’s health. Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, not of a baby. A person’s age is calculated from birth date instead of conception. The technical definition for an abortion is even “the ending of pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it can survive outside the uterus”. Major medical bodies have found that women who have had a first-trimester induced abortion are no more likely to have mental health problems. A woman is more likely to be psychologically and emotionally affected when denied abortion than when receiving one. In the case of rape or incest, forcing a woman who became pregnant from these acts would cause psychological harm to the victim. Carrying that child to term would cause even more emotional damage to a woman who has already been emotionally damaged from the rape. Should rape victims be reminded for nine months that she was raped? Should the psychical effects of pregnancy and its danger be forced on her, merely because she was a victim of such an act? The idea that abortion should be illegal even in rape cases is horrifying. From a study from the