So, if defunding planned parenthood has so many negative consequences, why are people still pushing this decision? According to Jeremy Peters, who gathered answers from people attending anti-abortion march, there are many reasons, and not all of them are religious. As one of the college students said she was opposing abortion not because of religious reasons, but because of the social justice aspect of it. She said that everyone should have right to live their life and live it however they want. This belief in personal freedom pushed her to make this decision in favor of Trump. Ironically, the same words can be heard among pro-choice leaders, who believe that everyone should have ability to live their lives as they want, and for this reason
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Susan Milligan does a great job of answering this basic question and presents a relatively unbiased answer that discusses arguments for both sides. As she points out, abortion is viewed as a conflict between woman’s right to have full control over her body and developing baby’s right to live. Turns out that while British parliament passed an Abortion Act, that allowed abortion for fetus that is no older than 28 weeks Northern Ireland didn’t adopt the law and till today the laws there are extremely strict, allowing abortion only for cases where mother’s health or life are threatened. Punishment for physicians who choose to perform the procedure is life in prison and same goes for the patients who choose to undergo …show more content…
What causes unwanted pregnancies? Mostly, the fact that people had unprotected sex and ended up with an unwanted child. So, tackling that problem rather than banning abortion will be root to solving this problem. Society and most importantly government needs to understand the reasons why women get abortions and if the reason is that people are not informed about safe sex and are not careful, then we should encourage safe sex, which will decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies, and thus eliminate abortions. This can be accomplished by making access to safety tools, like condoms easier, by educating teenagers about importance of safe sex, by looking at examples of other countries, which have lowest rates of
Susan Milligan does a great job of answering this basic question and presents a relatively unbiased answer that discusses arguments for both sides. As she points out, abortion is viewed as a conflict between woman’s right to have full control over her body and developing baby’s right to live. Turns out that while British parliament passed an Abortion Act, that allowed abortion for fetus that is no older than 28 weeks Northern Ireland didn’t adopt the law and till today the laws there are extremely strict, allowing abortion only for cases where mother’s health or life are threatened. Punishment for physicians who choose to perform the procedure is life in prison and same goes for the patients who choose to undergo …show more content…
What causes unwanted pregnancies? Mostly, the fact that people had unprotected sex and ended up with an unwanted child. So, tackling that problem rather than banning abortion will be root to solving this problem. Society and most importantly government needs to understand the reasons why women get abortions and if the reason is that people are not informed about safe sex and are not careful, then we should encourage safe sex, which will decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies, and thus eliminate abortions. This can be accomplished by making access to safety tools, like condoms easier, by educating teenagers about importance of safe sex, by looking at examples of other countries, which have lowest rates of