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Writing Project 3
Abortions The purpose of this essay is to describe the controversy of abortions, also to describe how it relates to a poem written by Sojourner Truth “Ain’t I a Woman?”. Initially I chose this topic because it was relatable but I came to the realization that it is not a new issue and it links directly into the women’s suffrage movement in the 1800s. This is because women had to not only fight for the right to vote amongst other things, they had to fight for the right to make their own choices with their body. We all would love to have that right to make choices but the dispute overall all seems to be that an abortion is taking a life which is declared constitutionally unjust and immoral because of that woman’s choice.
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In her poem, she talks about women working just as hard as men and are not limited what a society believes women can do. She describes the struggle of not only growing up African American but an African American woman in the 1800s and how bad they were treated. My interpretation of the comparison is that not only was there a movement specifically for the rights of women, which were accomplished, where women were not given fair rights to choose anything for themselves. Also after the rights were given to women they are slowly reneging on the fact that they should not be able to make choices on their own. Not only that women fought hard for many years to have just as much rights as men, after achieving that it was still hard for society to accept it, but to take a step back and question women’s equality is not fair. In my research, I hope to discover and take into consideration the opposing