The topic of abortions has been one of the biggest controversial debates of all time. There are two sides that any person can choose from: Pro-Life and Pro-Choice. Pro-life advocates believe that abortions are unethical and morally wrong, that it is the governments job to protect all lives including the lives of an unborn fetus. Pro-choice supporters believe that the a women is safe under the 14th Amendment declaring a women has the choice of abortion. What a women does to her body is her choice.
What pro-life people should know is that abortion is going to happen no matter what. Rather it be legally or illegally. Abortion should not be taken away as an option for women because women who are rape victims can be reminded of a dark time and …show more content…
The attack itself is very traumatic and already difficult to cope with so forcing victims to carry a psychical reminder with them for nine months can cause emotional stress, often harmful for a baby. Most of the time rape victims reject their baby due to their resemblance of their mothers attacker. "I couldn 't look at him, I told them to take him away" - Lisa, a sixteen year old rape victim. (The Sun, 2004) "I 've wished death upon my child" - Elizabeth, a gang rape victim (Owiso, 2014). Abortions are prohibited in forty-three states with the exception of the women 's life is in danger or health is at risk. (State Policies, 2015). People, women, have free will and they should have the right to decide whether or not to keep a child. No ones else 's beliefs should affect her decision in rather she wants to bear a child or not other than her …show more content…
What pro-lifers seem to understand is that abortions kill an actual human being when in fact what is being eliminated is not an actual baby. An abortion in the first trimester of a pregnancy is eliminating a group of cells and tissue from the uterus. The medical definition of a fetus is: an unborn or unhatched vertebrate especially after attaining the basic structural plan of its kind (Webster, 2015) A fetus in the womb cannot breath, think, feel or do anything on it’s own. This argument of "killing babies" is not facts, but rather a product of differing morals.
There are thousands of reasons as to why women need abortions to be available to them at any explanation. Just some include: rape, health risk, or financially unqualified. The social aspect to this issue is not facetious but extremely serious. Any reason is a legitimate reason to get an abortion and to think otherwise is
What pro-life people should know is that abortion is going to happen no matter what. Rather it be legally or illegally. Abortion should not be taken away as an option for women because women who are rape victims can be reminded of a dark time and …show more content…
The attack itself is very traumatic and already difficult to cope with so forcing victims to carry a psychical reminder with them for nine months can cause emotional stress, often harmful for a baby. Most of the time rape victims reject their baby due to their resemblance of their mothers attacker. "I couldn 't look at him, I told them to take him away" - Lisa, a sixteen year old rape victim. (The Sun, 2004) "I 've wished death upon my child" - Elizabeth, a gang rape victim (Owiso, 2014). Abortions are prohibited in forty-three states with the exception of the women 's life is in danger or health is at risk. (State Policies, 2015). People, women, have free will and they should have the right to decide whether or not to keep a child. No ones else 's beliefs should affect her decision in rather she wants to bear a child or not other than her …show more content…
What pro-lifers seem to understand is that abortions kill an actual human being when in fact what is being eliminated is not an actual baby. An abortion in the first trimester of a pregnancy is eliminating a group of cells and tissue from the uterus. The medical definition of a fetus is: an unborn or unhatched vertebrate especially after attaining the basic structural plan of its kind (Webster, 2015) A fetus in the womb cannot breath, think, feel or do anything on it’s own. This argument of "killing babies" is not facts, but rather a product of differing morals.
There are thousands of reasons as to why women need abortions to be available to them at any explanation. Just some include: rape, health risk, or financially unqualified. The social aspect to this issue is not facetious but extremely serious. Any reason is a legitimate reason to get an abortion and to think otherwise is