Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by death of the embryo or fetus. In the world, more than a quarter of women who become pregnant have an abortion or an unwanted birth. When a person has a child it is a very big commitment. A child needs to be loved and cared. When women decide to have an abortion to an unwanted child it would prevent some children from child abuse. There are many reason why a person would want and abortion. Abortion is need when some feel that they could not go through with having the child. The reasons women give for choosing to have abortions are that they have had all the children they want, they are too young or too poor to raise a child, it could be a health risk to the mother, and they do not want a child while they are in school or working.
"If These Walls Could Talk'' shows different times and different situations. The movie shows us the lives of the women who lived inside one house in three different decades: one in 1952, one in 1974, one in 1996. These Women share one thing in common: unplanned pregnancies. Each woman in the movie makes a different decision about her pregnancy and each woman experiences different consequences.
On January 22, 1973 the Supreme Court made abortion legal, after the Roe vs. Wade case stated that prohibiting abortion violated a women’s privacy. In 1974 a woman has returned to school. Abortion is newly legalized, and women are just getting the idea to think about it. Abortion is now legal and can access information and have supportive friends and family make the decision. During this time there were safer procedures compared to 1952.
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