Ethical Issues On Abortion Essay

Abortion in U.S Women around the world have used abortion to control their reproduction at every point in history, and in every known society. Ethical values arise out of such deeds as abortion that determines the direction that one chooses. Abortion in the United States has been and still is one of the most controversial issues in United States culture and politics. In the United States, abortion started to be practiced in about the 1880. Some states banned it except only if it was to save the life of the women. According to “our bodies selves” website “This legislation was also a way for the medical profession to tighten its control over women’s health care, as midwives who performed abortions were a threat to the male medical establishment. Finally, with the declining birthrate among whites in the late 1800s, the U.S. government and the eugenics movement were concerned about “race suicide” and wanted white U.S.-born women to reproduce.” (OBOS Abortion Contributors). When abortion was illegal, depending upon the women economic situation, her race and where she lived had the ability to obtain an abortion. For example, a rich white women could leave …show more content…
Two sources confirm a downward are CDC and GI. CDC (the government Centers for Disease Control), develops a report on the basis of data received from central health agencies. GI (Guttmacher Institute) was a research affiliate of abortion chain of Planned Parenthood, it gets the numbers from abortion conducted every few years. On the website of Narional right to life chart it shows that in 1973 the GI was 744,610 and the CDC was 615,831, it kept increasing until 1990. In the year 1990 the GI was 1,608,600 and the CDC was 1,429,247 which was the highest number, after that it started to