Abortions done later, in the second or even third trimester, can kill the mother. Amniotic fluid could potentially enter the blood stream and reach the heart, causing it to stop (Terkel 53).
Abortions have after-affects that can be just as damaging, if not more so, than the actual procedure. PAS, or Post Abortion Syndrome, occurs after the abortion and can last for years. Women who experience this suffer from depression, suicidal thoughts, and alcohol and drug abuse (Terkel 55).
Some scientists are anti-abortionists as well. They fear what will happen to the economy if the population continues to decrease. With fewer people in the generations from 30-40 and 40-50 years old, social security is taking a drop. Taxes are also going to be on the rise, with fewer working tax payers (World).
Surgical abortions are the most common type done. 1.5 million surgical abortions are performed every year in the U.S (World). That is more deaths than all of the 3 .
Americans who died in the Revolutionary War , Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf Wars combined. That is a staggering number. Abortions are still increasing. The number of abortions performed since Roe vs. Wade has nearly doubled (krla). There are approximately 314 abortions for every 1,000 live births. One abortion is performed every 24 seconds (krla). In the words of one pro-life activist,"" Abortion is a savage method of fertility control"" (Terkel 91).
Pro-Choice.
To have an abortion is every woman's right. It is her body and life that would be forever changed and no one else's. The ruling of Roe vs. Wade was monumental for women. They no longer had to seek ""back alley butchers"" if they thought abortion was their only option. The Supreme Court decided that the unborn are not included in the fourteenth amendments meaning of a person and, therefore have no rights (Terkel 30).
There are numerous reasons why abortion would be preferred by the mother.
But just as blueprints are not a building, a set of chromosomes is not a person (Pro-Choice & Viability). ... The fetus lacks all of the mentioned characteristics (Pro-Choice & Viability). ... Abortion and the right to have one should be a personal choice, not a political debate. ...
