Roe

Abortion: A Necessary Evil I sat down and cried the day it happened. A flash of emotions started streaming through my head, but somehow I felt my head nodding along. If ever a person could survive on auto-pilot I was succeeding now. I knew I should be paying attention, but I couldn’t get past how the nurse carried on as if everything were routine. I don’t know why I expected something more ceremonious, but I had. Did they not understand what was happening today? I was making the decision to damn…

Who is not pro-choice and who is not pro-life? These are just two terms politicians use in their campaigns to sum up their view on abortion. Isn’t everybody pro-choice? Doesn’t everyone like the idea of making choices? Comparatively, everyone is pro-life. Almost everyone supports the right for people to live. There is much more meaning to these terms than they portray at first read. The pro-choice community is in favor of a woman’s right to choose what she does with her body. Specifically…

Fight for Rights Many people in the world today are very hypocritical, they will criticize you for doing something wrong but when they do it then it’s completely fine. In today’s society if a woman decides to get an abortion, the world will criticize her for being so inconsiderate. A person who hasn’t been in this situation wouldn’t understand how difficult it is to make that decision. Therefore, the only way you can truly understand is if you step in their shoes, or at least try to. Many…

Abortion There is so much controversy of whether or not abortion should be illegal or legal, and the fact of the matter is that people, men and women should have the choice of the decision if whether they want to or don’t it shouldn’t be a complicated topic. The topic of abortions shows a feminist criticism because women should have the choice of what they would like to do with their bodies without having someone else tell them what they can and cannot do. Although some people may be against…

In the 1820s, the US government recognized that current abortion methods were resulting in high mortality rates, and the unsafe practice was outlawed for the sake of women’s health. Despite the United State's ban on abortion, which lasted for more than a half-century, illegal abortions continued, particularly among poor women without access to or knowledge of contraception.As abortion procedures were studied and improved, many states began to mitigate their old abortion laws. Some states,…

For centuries, women have been fighting for rights they should be entitled to the same way men are. From the right to an education, to working, to voting; it’s no surprise some women have to fight for the right to control their uteruses as well. The big debate in America is pro-life vs. pro-choice. To break it down simply, pro-life is anti-abortion, while pro-choice is giving women the right to decide for themselves, so pro-abortion. The controversy is that women would be aborting innocent…

"The Mother” is a powerful poem about abortion and motherhood, written by Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize (Gwendolyn Brooks Bio). The poem is marked by a simple language and realism, in which the author describes her unborn children with details and love. She unveils the role of women, almost as if she was giving them help, an advice or even a warning about abortion. Moreover, Brooks appeals to the emotional side and makes the situation dramatic, trying to…

for Christians. The legality of abortion was confirmed in 1973 when the United States Supreme Court struck down a Texas statute that prohibited abortion procedures, no matter how medically urgent they might be. This decision, commonly referred to as Roe v. Wade [410 U.S. 113 (1973)], is the most important legal milestone in the…

Ingalls 1 Cody Ingalls Professor Rhodes Introduction to Ethics April 15th, 2017 Case Study The debate surrounding abortion rights presents many ethical dilemmas, and is rarely a black and white issue, which makes it difficult to label all abortions as moral or immoral. Many people who are opposed to abortion are willing to support it in certain situations, such as in the case of rape, incest, or the endangerment of a mother’s life. One of these situations is described in the case study…

When looking back upon American history, as a country we all seem to agree on the progress we have made as a country. We pride ourselves on our freedom; our freedom of speech, freedom of decision, and freedom of choice. Our political leaders stand up on a podium and sermonize to their citizens about how we are the “land of the free”, and how lucky we are to live our daily lives in a place where we are entitled to our own opinions and beliefs. However, as a society we do not seem to always…