Abortion Silent Victim

Abortion: Uncovering the Silent Victim.
There has been an ongoing battle between the American people on the question of “Do women have the right to an abortion?” There is a controversy between women 's health, the fetus, the right to your own body, religious views, and so many other little topics that add to the big picture. The focus for this essay is the silent victim, the fetus. The other life being affected by an abortion procedure. The fetus or baby is a life that is somehow disregarded as just a clump of cells so let’s unwrap the harsh truth of abortion. When did the abortion conversation even begin? Roe v Wade is the landmark case that made abortion an available option for women across the fifty states (Roe). Roe v Wade is a supreme …show more content…
There are abortifacients, surgical procedures, saline solutions, and vacuum methods (Stephanie). Each terminates the pregnancy for the women similarly but all have a different level of cruelty for the baby. The abortifacients are a pill that is taken to abort the baby (Stephanie). The surgical method is pulling the baby apart with clamps inside the womb and then removing the parts (Stephanie). The saline solution is when a saline mixture is liquid that is inserted into the womb and burns the baby (Day). The vacuum method is what is sounds like, a suction device is used to suck out the baby from the womb (Stephanie). For most methods, the women can be sedated if she chooses (Services). Women can have a standard first-trimester abortion at most clinics but late term abortions need to be performed by specialist …show more content…
Abortion is affecting more than just the woman’s womb. In hospitals, we have one wing where doctors are desperately trying to save a baby’s life during pregnancy complications and in another wing, we are terminating their life because their mother does not want them. We need to give the woman another option. We, as a society, cannot be pro-life but then stop caring about the baby’s life when it is outside of the womb. If women are going to go to full term with a baby they can’t afford, we need to offer them help. Give them the means to take care of the baby instead of telling them they shouldn’t haven gotten pregnant in the first place. Everyone deserves a chance at life, and a good life at that. A woman deserves access to birth control and woman’s health clinics, but not an abortion. If birth control and woman’s health clinics were more accessible, there wouldn’t need to be abortions. Birth control prevents a situation like abortion from happening in the first place. Its something that needs work and regulations. Abortion is a two-person situation and we need to start looking at it that