The Pros And Cons Of Abortion

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Source: ProConorg Headlines. "Abortion ProCon.org." N.p., 1 Feb. 2017. Web. 16 Mar. 2017.
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This article is about the pros and cons of abortion, and if abortion should be legal. Pro-choice advocates say that it is a fundamental right meaning your body your choice. They say that women should be in control of their bodies and not discriminated by their choices. The idea of the baby being alive at conception is absurd the baby is considered a person once it is viable which is being able to live outside the womb. The baby is not going to feel the pain when the abortion is performed while the mother is going to be the one going through the physical and mental pain of having to get an abortion. When it is done by a professional it is much
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Fetal abnormalities are sometimes reasons that a woman doesn't want to have a baby, so abortion helps women that are pregnant gave the option not to bring fetuses with those mental issues to full term. Women that are denied abortion and have to have the baby most of the time end up becoming unemployed, in poverty and others because they didn't have the money to take care of the baby and didn't have the time to get a job because of the baby. When they have the choice they are able to get an abortion if they financially cannot care for the child. The most relevant answer to why we should keep abortion legal, a baby should not come into the world unwanted. If you have to have a baby that you didn't you are going to resent them for ruining your life especially if you were still in school, even though it wasn't the child's fault. Abortion does reduce crime because if abortion was illegal there would be women that would illegally do if it's doing it on herself to finding a doctor to do it, but it is unsafe and would be illegal, and they could go to jail for murder. Think of all the people that would be in this world if no one ever got an …show more content…
It is about how Donald trump went from pro-life to pro-choice back to pro-life and so on and so forth. Starting back in April of 1989 he did not attend an event because his family was threatened by anti-abortion activists. Ten years later in 1999, he was asked about abortion with Tim Russert he said that ¨I'm very pro-choice… I hate the concept of abortion I hate it. I hate everything it stands for.I cringe when I listen to people debating the subject. But you still -- I just believe in choice¨. He is saying that he hates abortion but thinks that women should have the choice to get an abortion or not even though he hates it. When asked if he would ban abortion his answer was ¨No¨. From 1999 to 2011 he switched his position on abortion now when toying with running he told the activists that he was pro-life, as well as against gun control as well. Then after he announced his candidacy in June of 2015 he said pro-choice when he meant to say pro-life. Or did he? Then about a year later in March of 2016 at 2:30 p.m. he said that women who get an abortion should face punishment for their illegal act, however, the men that were involved will not. An hour later that same day he says that ¨This issue is unclear and should be put back into the states for determination. Like Ronald Reagan, I am pro-life with exceptions, which I have outlined numerous times¨. He said that he has

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