Killing an unborn child is never an easy choice for people to make in their lives. No one can just nonchalantly walk into a clinic and unemotionally make the decision of getting an abortion without even blinking an eye, but abortion should remain legal. There are many reasons women get abortions. Some of these reasons are, women's rights, medical, and rape and incest. Abortions are safe and hold many values to people in these circumstances.
Women have always had a right to have an abortion. The federal law protects women's rights and has since 1983. Within the last ten years though, women's rights to abortion have been questioned. Reproductive rights make sure that women have power over their bodies. Without legal abortion could possibly do it anyway, unsafely …show more content…
Operation Rescue statistics show out of every 10 abortions, one of them is from rape. Why would you force women to carry their rapist's child? And while adoption is always an option, AFCARS showed only 2,190 infants out of 31,290 in foster care were adopted. The mental impact of a rape victim is 30% higher than non-rape victims. Imagine how that would increase if they were all forced to carry their rapist's child? Pregnancies caused by incest should always be terminated. The percent of children born with life threatening defects is 30% higher in children born from incest than in non-incest children clarified Psychology Today. Rewire News stated that in a study conducted by Iowa state and planned parenthood 14% of abortions were because of domestic violence. Also, that there's reason to suspect that women in abusive relationships are more likely to experience unintended pregnancies because their abusers use sabotaging contraceptives as a tactic to keep control of the women their abusing. Making abortion illegal is traumatizing and harmful to women and the babies, especially in situations like
Women have always had a right to have an abortion. The federal law protects women's rights and has since 1983. Within the last ten years though, women's rights to abortion have been questioned. Reproductive rights make sure that women have power over their bodies. Without legal abortion could possibly do it anyway, unsafely …show more content…
Operation Rescue statistics show out of every 10 abortions, one of them is from rape. Why would you force women to carry their rapist's child? And while adoption is always an option, AFCARS showed only 2,190 infants out of 31,290 in foster care were adopted. The mental impact of a rape victim is 30% higher than non-rape victims. Imagine how that would increase if they were all forced to carry their rapist's child? Pregnancies caused by incest should always be terminated. The percent of children born with life threatening defects is 30% higher in children born from incest than in non-incest children clarified Psychology Today. Rewire News stated that in a study conducted by Iowa state and planned parenthood 14% of abortions were because of domestic violence. Also, that there's reason to suspect that women in abusive relationships are more likely to experience unintended pregnancies because their abusers use sabotaging contraceptives as a tactic to keep control of the women their abusing. Making abortion illegal is traumatizing and harmful to women and the babies, especially in situations like