The Great Eggs: Why Abortion Should be Legal
Abortion has been talked about for a very long time and up until the 1970’s it was in hushed tones. Even today, nearly 40 years after the legalization of abortion, people still want to criticize and be judgmental of it. Abortion is the process of terminating a pregnancy, usually done by an authorized procedure by a doctor. The problem with abortion is not about “life”, it is about being able to control half the population’s reproductive rights. Abortion should be legal in all cases.
Women should have control over their own bodies, and abortion is part of that right. In the Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Carhart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg says “Thus, legal challenges to undue restrictions on abortion procedures do not seek to vindicate some …show more content…
Only religion is a moot point because the separation of church and state. Thomas Jefferson, a founding father, is one of the first to mention this clause, and he says that the government cannot use religion as its reason against anything because there is a right to practice which even religion one chooses. To add, since the United States has so many different practicing religions,citing one in particular would be excluding all other. Also many of the anti-abortion groups are religion oriented and lead by men. Nearly 80% of anti-abortion groups are led by males (CITATION). It is unfair to every woman that what is in or not in her uterus is in the hands of a man. According to a Gallup Poll, a majority of the population is “pro-choice”, but only 46% of men are (2014). Men who cannot become pregnant, who will never have to make this decision, who will never be put in a situation to halt their life for an embryo. Abortion is a woman’s right. It is a right that can only be granted to women because women are the only ones capable of being pregnant and terminating said pregnancy. It is not the business of any man, unless that man is her
Abortion has been talked about for a very long time and up until the 1970’s it was in hushed tones. Even today, nearly 40 years after the legalization of abortion, people still want to criticize and be judgmental of it. Abortion is the process of terminating a pregnancy, usually done by an authorized procedure by a doctor. The problem with abortion is not about “life”, it is about being able to control half the population’s reproductive rights. Abortion should be legal in all cases.
Women should have control over their own bodies, and abortion is part of that right. In the Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Carhart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg says “Thus, legal challenges to undue restrictions on abortion procedures do not seek to vindicate some …show more content…
Only religion is a moot point because the separation of church and state. Thomas Jefferson, a founding father, is one of the first to mention this clause, and he says that the government cannot use religion as its reason against anything because there is a right to practice which even religion one chooses. To add, since the United States has so many different practicing religions,citing one in particular would be excluding all other. Also many of the anti-abortion groups are religion oriented and lead by men. Nearly 80% of anti-abortion groups are led by males (CITATION). It is unfair to every woman that what is in or not in her uterus is in the hands of a man. According to a Gallup Poll, a majority of the population is “pro-choice”, but only 46% of men are (2014). Men who cannot become pregnant, who will never have to make this decision, who will never be put in a situation to halt their life for an embryo. Abortion is a woman’s right. It is a right that can only be granted to women because women are the only ones capable of being pregnant and terminating said pregnancy. It is not the business of any man, unless that man is her