Reducing Abortion Stigma
Helping Women Help Themselves
A stigma is a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance commonly following abortion. Some women physically cannot have children, are raped, or are not in good health to have a child. What are these women going to do when the baby slowly kills them? If they can eliminate the problem before it becomes a problem, more power to them, right? You would think that, but there are people out there that judge the 13 year old rape victim as she comes out of the abortion clinic due to their “beliefs.” Imagine this---you are a woman, and it is the year of 2020; abortion has been abolished. You are sexaully assaulted in an alleyway coming home from work. You soon find out that you …show more content…
Many reasons for the hate on abortion are because of religion, ignorance, or the fact that they are completely uneducated. People deserve to know the truth about abortion. To educate a young crowd of people on abortion, there can be abortion sections in family planning courses. The teacher would have to go through simple classes and receive textbooks or notebooks for the students explaining the good and bad about abortion. From there on, it is up to the student with what they do with that information. They can simply keep it to themselves and not talk about it, or they can talk about the new and correct information. Hopefully with the new curriculum, gynecologists and scientists will be conducting further experiments and gathering more information through donated placentas after the abortion takes place, or when you pass away, your reproductive system can be donated to science. With the big impact this will make on the world, it will not be enough. Along with the new curriculum, and the experiments, adoption needs to come into play. Women fear that if they give their baby up for adoption, it would be in the system for its entire life, or that it would try to find her. Adopting a child can cost up to $40,000 (American Adoptions). If the prices of adoption are lowered and more people adopt, hopefully women will choose to carry a fetus full term, then give the baby up for
Helping Women Help Themselves
A stigma is a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance commonly following abortion. Some women physically cannot have children, are raped, or are not in good health to have a child. What are these women going to do when the baby slowly kills them? If they can eliminate the problem before it becomes a problem, more power to them, right? You would think that, but there are people out there that judge the 13 year old rape victim as she comes out of the abortion clinic due to their “beliefs.” Imagine this---you are a woman, and it is the year of 2020; abortion has been abolished. You are sexaully assaulted in an alleyway coming home from work. You soon find out that you …show more content…
Many reasons for the hate on abortion are because of religion, ignorance, or the fact that they are completely uneducated. People deserve to know the truth about abortion. To educate a young crowd of people on abortion, there can be abortion sections in family planning courses. The teacher would have to go through simple classes and receive textbooks or notebooks for the students explaining the good and bad about abortion. From there on, it is up to the student with what they do with that information. They can simply keep it to themselves and not talk about it, or they can talk about the new and correct information. Hopefully with the new curriculum, gynecologists and scientists will be conducting further experiments and gathering more information through donated placentas after the abortion takes place, or when you pass away, your reproductive system can be donated to science. With the big impact this will make on the world, it will not be enough. Along with the new curriculum, and the experiments, adoption needs to come into play. Women fear that if they give their baby up for adoption, it would be in the system for its entire life, or that it would try to find her. Adopting a child can cost up to $40,000 (American Adoptions). If the prices of adoption are lowered and more people adopt, hopefully women will choose to carry a fetus full term, then give the baby up for