Some believe abortion is morally wrong , while others say it is a human right “my body, my choice”. Should abortion be legal? Every woman should have the right to decide what happens to their bodies. A man should not be able to tell someone they have to have a kid. It is medically shown that within a certain time frame the fetus will not feel pain.
Many opponents to abortion believe it should be illegal. Women are being careless and irresponsible not taking the correct measures that are causing the fetus harm. There was an incident in Indiana in 2015, “a women named Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison for what the prosecutor said was a late self-abortion.” This just goes to show that some women have no regard …show more content…
The biological father is also apart of the baby and just because the mother does not want the child does not mean the father does not want the child.” A new Arkansas law will let a husband sue a doctor to stop his wife from getting a particular type of abortion. It makes no exception for cases of spousal rape.” It is not fair to the father that the mom gets to choose if his unborn child get to live or not. It should be a mutual decision.
If the husband of the women who is trying to get an abortion is not the biological father, he has no parental rights to stop the abortion. An article written by Criss Doug says “the husband has to be the father of the child. And because there’s no exemption in the law for rape and incest, a woman’s rapist could theoretically file suit to stop the abortion.” Now the father of the baby can also have a say in what happens to their child.
There is scientific evidence that abortion is often causing the fetus pain. Even at 20 weeks the fetus may still feel severe pain and more than fourteen thousand abortion occur each year. “Even using the conservative fetal pain date of 20 weeks, many abortions may cause horrific pain as well as death. If some pain is perceived at 17 weeks, then forty-two thousand abortion may be implicated annually, including hundreds, perhaps thousands of partial birth abortions.” Abortions are just not being performed in the right time …show more content…
Since the fetus is able to feel pain, professionals have said that they should at least give them their own anaesthesia. “Report, issued in october 19997, startled the world by recommending that the evidence for fetal pain perception in the late second trimester was convincing enough that the doomed fetus should be sedated with its own specific anaesthesia during all abortions performed from twenty-four weeks onward.” If they are going to abort a baby they could at least do the human thing and no make the fetus go through so much