The Perfect Choice Adoption: The Fight For Abortion

Over the past decades, women in America have been fighting for equal rights. According to John Markoff, “Rivals for elective office assiduously courted New Jersey’s women voters until the legislature wrote a new, explicitly males-only rule into its 1807 constitution.” (88) It was not until 1973 that women gained the right to abort a fetus that they were bearing within their own body. Although women have gained many rights, they still today are fighting to keep their right to abort a fetus. Many individuals notice that there are underlying issues with suppressing abortion, but others oppose the idea of an abortion. First and foremost, abortion allows a woman the right to her own body. Some say that abortion should not be used as a form of contraception, but birth control fails on a daily …show more content…
For example, many believe it would be fine if abortion was legal only for women who are carrying a child conceived from rape. The others who plan to abort a fetus are given the alternative to have the child and put it up for adoption. There are organizations like the Perfect Choice Adoption who offer help to a woman if she chooses adoption over abortion. The help includes free housing during the adoption, help paying bills, the choice on what type of adoption it may be (open, closed, or mixed), and the choosing of the adopting family (Perfect Choice Adoption). Another type of alternative is a nonsurgical abortion, this is done by a drug given to the woman to stop the hormones followed by another drug taken by mouth or inserted vaginally that causes the uterus to contract and expel both the fetus and placenta (Minnesota). However, many believe regardless of the type of abortion, one is still putting an end to a beating heart. The final alternative to abortion as a whole, is to put the child in temporary foster care. Thus leaves the woman the advantage to have the choice after the child is