Abortion
Currently, an estimated 1,365,000 million women receive abortions in America annually. Approximately 40 million abortions have been performed since 1973 (1). According to a case, Rex v. Beare, Abortion has been part of human lives since the 1700s (8). Many sources also state that it has been practiced quite long time in history before the 1700s. Whether or not abortion should be a right of a mother or banned completely is an issue that could be debated, and has been debated, for years. The controversy of this issue partly depends on the fact that different people have different measures of defining ‘Human-life.’ Some people believe a soul is given to a human being, by God, while it is developing in the mother’s womb, and some believe it is given to the child after its birth. Both cases seem to be based on opinions and what each side promptly believes in. According to WorldNet, abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy (9). There are two main types of abortions; Medical abortion and surgical abortion. In a medical abortion, the mother’s uterus is not treated; instead, the mother is given medication to end the pregnancy. There are two medications that can be legally induced in the United States, mifep
Since the decline of common law crimes in the early 19th century to the intervention of Supreme Court in the 1970s, states have widely criminalized abortion. In 1973, in the case Roe vs. Wade, United States Supreme Court ruled Pro-Choice. Jane Roe, whose real name was Norma McCorvey, was a woman who challenged the criminal abortion laws in Texas. These laws forbade abortion except in cases where the mother’s life was in danger; claiming they were unconstitutional. Henry Wade was the Texas Attorney General who defended the anti-abortion law (3). The conclusion held that the 14th amendment in the United States Constitution gave women the fundamental right to obtain abortions. The Supreme Court held the right to privacy and assured the freedom of a woman to abort unless the state had a “compelling interest” in preventing the abortion. The court then held that though the state had a compelling interest in protecting the fetal life, the interest did not become “compelling” until the fetal viability occurred in the third trimester of pregnancy. Thus, all the state abortion laws that regulated abortion during the first six months of pregnancy, except for the purpose of protecting maternal health during the second trimmest, were invalidated (4). Pro-Life supporters ask a basic question to mothers having abortions, why selfishly kill a baby when u can give it up for adoption? ----. It would less hurtful to hand over a baby to an adoption clinic rather than take the life of the baby away from it. It is religiously and morally wrong to do that. The point raised about adoption sounds reasonable enough until the Pro-Choice people argue on the same issue, but in a different manner of course. They turn our attention towards the rapidly growing population of the world. According to some statistics, there have been over 40 million abortions since abortions have been legalized in the United States. Every year approximately 1.3 million abortion are performed annually (1). If abortion is illegalized and mothers are forced to have their babies, this would increase the population of the United States and add to the population of the world as well----. I
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