There has been a long battle fought over centuries. Religions and choices have clashed and battled for supremacy. Laws were made and passed. The termination of pregnancy before the fetus is viable, or abortion is legal. Not only does a woman have the right to decide the state of her body but, certain circumstances make abortion the only viable option. Legal terminations are safer and cause less harm, nonetheless others say abortion is murder. Ultimately it is a woman’s legal right on procedures and decisions completed on her own body. “On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in the case of Roe v. Wade, which recognized that the constitutional right to privacy extends to a woman’s right to make her
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The law was passed in 1973 and should be upheld. Abortions give women the freedom to choose what path they want to take for their life, whether that means to continue with career goals or to put those plans on the back burner and start a family. It releases the financial strain that would be put upon them and their child. A child will not have to live with less than what is needed. In matters of rape, drugs, or birth abnormalities, termination would be for the better. A woman would not have to withstand a pregnancy brought on by a tragic event. A child would not have to suffer through a life with lower than standard qualities due to birth defects. Parents should have that power to decide what is best for their child’s welfare. Abortions decrease risk of overpopulation and serve as a way to control the abundance of children in foster care. With foster homes in unfavorable conditions it keeps those children from living that kind of harsh existence. Not only does termination lower population numbers it decreases the number of deaths illegal abortions would cause. Legal abortion is safer for the woman undergoing the procedure. It extinguishes lasting health problems. While these arguments are true some would disagree with having abortion be legal. They say life begins at conception and they back up that notion with the Bible, but fetal life begins when the fetus can live out of the mother’s womb. What the Bible states is not the code of law but only what particular group chooses to believe in. Our nation is founded up freedom, the freedom to make choices, if you take that away we would be
The law was passed in 1973 and should be upheld. Abortions give women the freedom to choose what path they want to take for their life, whether that means to continue with career goals or to put those plans on the back burner and start a family. It releases the financial strain that would be put upon them and their child. A child will not have to live with less than what is needed. In matters of rape, drugs, or birth abnormalities, termination would be for the better. A woman would not have to withstand a pregnancy brought on by a tragic event. A child would not have to suffer through a life with lower than standard qualities due to birth defects. Parents should have that power to decide what is best for their child’s welfare. Abortions decrease risk of overpopulation and serve as a way to control the abundance of children in foster care. With foster homes in unfavorable conditions it keeps those children from living that kind of harsh existence. Not only does termination lower population numbers it decreases the number of deaths illegal abortions would cause. Legal abortion is safer for the woman undergoing the procedure. It extinguishes lasting health problems. While these arguments are true some would disagree with having abortion be legal. They say life begins at conception and they back up that notion with the Bible, but fetal life begins when the fetus can live out of the mother’s womb. What the Bible states is not the code of law but only what particular group chooses to believe in. Our nation is founded up freedom, the freedom to make choices, if you take that away we would be