“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” (Lader, 18) This quote by Margaret Sanger shows the opinion of the Pro-Choice stance on Abortion. In order to understand the Pro-Choice stance on abortion completely, it’s necessary to examine how an abortion affects a mother’s education and career, a child’s survivability, a mother’s health, and the definition of personhood.
A pregnancy can impede a woman’s entire life; including education and their careers. An example of this is the story of a thirteen year old girl named Gina who was raped. She found out she was pregnant when she never had her period. She told her mother and her mother was able to get her to a clinic. Gina also discovered she had contracted chlamydia from the man who had raped her(Gina.) This girl had her entire life in front of her, and she didn’t even chose to become pregnant. She hadn’t even started high school and if she would’ve had to carry this pregnancy, she might not have even continued her education. …show more content…
Some abortions are done in order to save the child’s life; such as they wouldn’t survive past birth or wouldn’t have a fulfilling life. A woman named Julie was twenty weeks pregnant when she had an ultrasound done to identify the sex of her child. The doctors discovered that the baby’s brain ventricles were doubled in size. This meant that if the baby was carried to term, it would be developed at about the amount a two month old fetus would be. She chose to terminate the pregnancy, rather than risk having a premature baby and having to watch it either die or live in a hospital for months
A pregnancy can impede a woman’s entire life; including education and their careers. An example of this is the story of a thirteen year old girl named Gina who was raped. She found out she was pregnant when she never had her period. She told her mother and her mother was able to get her to a clinic. Gina also discovered she had contracted chlamydia from the man who had raped her(Gina.) This girl had her entire life in front of her, and she didn’t even chose to become pregnant. She hadn’t even started high school and if she would’ve had to carry this pregnancy, she might not have even continued her education. …show more content…
Some abortions are done in order to save the child’s life; such as they wouldn’t survive past birth or wouldn’t have a fulfilling life. A woman named Julie was twenty weeks pregnant when she had an ultrasound done to identify the sex of her child. The doctors discovered that the baby’s brain ventricles were doubled in size. This meant that if the baby was carried to term, it would be developed at about the amount a two month old fetus would be. She chose to terminate the pregnancy, rather than risk having a premature baby and having to watch it either die or live in a hospital for months