Certainly the issue of abortion is not something to be taken lightly because it is the termination of what could, potentially, become a human being. There are very many ways of looking at abortion, which make it hard to decide whether or not you are for it. Although there are many good reasons as to why someone would choose to be against it I, for one, believe abortion could, in some cases, be the right thing to do. Abortion could save women from an experience that could either damage or kill them. This is not the same for every single case but there are exceptions.
First off there is the discussion of women’s privacy and how the decision to abort a baby is mainly their decision. That and the decision of her partner, no one else’s. There are many reasons a woman would not see it fit to continue with a pregnancy. According to the National Abortion Federation “Each year, one million American teenagers become pregnant, and 85% of these pregnancies are unintended.” Most pregnancies that are aborted happen to be accidental. Although, yes, some of these accidents can be prevented some can’t. If you force a woman or a teen to continue full term with her pregnancy it would be intruding into the privacy of her body. It is init

initially, the woman’s choice as to whether or not to continue with her own pregnancy. “Being forced to proceed to childbirth can cause unique and psychological violence to a woman.”

There is also the issue of families on welfare and victims of physical abuse. There are many obvious reasons as to why a battered woman would not want to bring a child into the world. There could be complications due to physical damage done towards her body. Also, even though a pregnancy could prevent her husband or boyfriend from hitting her, once the child was born not only would he resume hitting her, he would probably do the same to the child. “Under some conditions having a child could prove to be socially dysfunctional, morally irresponsible or even cruel.” Of course, aborting the baby wouldn’t solve all her problems but at least there wouldn’t be another victim of physical abuse.

There is always the predicament that rape victims are left in if they become pregnant. People with opposing views on abortion believe that aborting the pregnancy wouldn’t help anything. They believe that the only thing it would is create a second, innocent, victim. I think this is the wrong way of looking at it. I mean, look at it from her point of view. Forcing her to go through with that pregnancy will not only have major psychological effects on her, it would also be hard for her to bond with her child. How is a mother supposed to bond with a child that was conceived when she was brutally raped? Ken Wear addresses the same issue he sets up the scenario of a woman being taken away and being raped, “As a result she