The topic of abortion is something I feel strongly about, however with this strong emotion, comes quite a bit of internal confusion about what is morally right. When thinking about abortion years ago and what it meant, my first thought was how terrible it was that we could kill a baby. In my head that seemed like murder and something that was morally unjust. But I couldn’t lie to myself in the fact that if I became pregnant right now, I wouldn’t even think twice about getting an abortion at all. These two conflicting ideas weighed heavily on me as I began researching about the topic. It would be totally wrong of me to try and approach the topic from a pro life standpoint, knowing fully that I would get an abortion if need be, so in that case
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I thought the actual procedure of an abortion could possibly harm the mother, being another reason women should avoid abortions, but I was wrong. As it turns out abortions are actually safer than a lot of different medical procedures and legal abortion has an extremely low mortality rate of 0.0006%, meaning that 0.6 out of 100,000 procedures has resulted in harm to the mother. With that being said colonoscopies, getting struck by lightning, and childbirth itself are all things that you have a much higher chance of getting harmed by than getting an abortion (Tang). In regards to the pain of the baby, Procon.org said, “Fetuses are incapable of feeling pain when most abortions are performed.” That clears up the physical aspect of abortion being safe, but what about the mental and emotional? Does getting an abortion leave a woman with any risk of depression or suicidal …show more content…
There is no correlation or causation between getting an abortion and a decline in the woman’s mental health and wellbeing (Edwards). This is a good thing, of course, but now I had another question to face. Would forcing a woman to carry a child and give birth to a child that she doesn’t want have a negative effect on her mental health? There is little evidence on this, but I can say that I do think it would have a worse effect on the mother if government decides to make abortions illegal. Forcing the mother to carry a child she has no desire to take care of or physically can’t because her body won’t allow her to for health reasons, would have a much worse effect on the woman’s overall well
I thought the actual procedure of an abortion could possibly harm the mother, being another reason women should avoid abortions, but I was wrong. As it turns out abortions are actually safer than a lot of different medical procedures and legal abortion has an extremely low mortality rate of 0.0006%, meaning that 0.6 out of 100,000 procedures has resulted in harm to the mother. With that being said colonoscopies, getting struck by lightning, and childbirth itself are all things that you have a much higher chance of getting harmed by than getting an abortion (Tang). In regards to the pain of the baby, Procon.org said, “Fetuses are incapable of feeling pain when most abortions are performed.” That clears up the physical aspect of abortion being safe, but what about the mental and emotional? Does getting an abortion leave a woman with any risk of depression or suicidal …show more content…
There is no correlation or causation between getting an abortion and a decline in the woman’s mental health and wellbeing (Edwards). This is a good thing, of course, but now I had another question to face. Would forcing a woman to carry a child and give birth to a child that she doesn’t want have a negative effect on her mental health? There is little evidence on this, but I can say that I do think it would have a worse effect on the mother if government decides to make abortions illegal. Forcing the mother to carry a child she has no desire to take care of or physically can’t because her body won’t allow her to for health reasons, would have a much worse effect on the woman’s overall well