Abortion is a guaranteed right. The definition of an abortion is the
termination of a pregnancy owing to or resulting in the death of the fetus.
If women do not have this right, they will turn to "back-alley" abortions,
which are inadequate and life threatening. Or, these women will try to
perform the abortion themselves. Women in Nicaragua, India, Ethiopia,
Uganda, Kenya, and Poland, are mangled from trying to induce their own
abortions using bicycle tire spokes or sticks. The gynecologists in Africa
say that they spend 90% of their time cleaning up botched abortions. A
woman in the United States tried to self-abort with a coat hanger, and was
hospitalized with an infection. Medicaid, which is a service similar to
Medicare, paid for treating the infection, but would not pay for an abortion
since the condition was not life threatening. Another woman carrying a
twenty-two week old fetus with a fatal heart defect was denied funding for
an abortion. A twenty-three year old woman with cervical cancer was told
that Medicaid would pay for a hysterectomy, but not an abortion, which was
a prerequisite to appropriate treatment of the disease. Restricting abortion
denies women access to a procedure that may be necessary for the
enjoyment of their right to health. Some women suffer maternity-related
injuries such as hemorrhage or obstructed labor. According to the World
Health Organization, unsafe abortions are responsible for the deaths of
78,000 women each year. Maternal mortality is an urgent crisis and global
scandal. 13% is from unsafe abortions. Women take money from food,
rent, and utilities to pay for abortions. In the time that it takes these
women to raise the money, they will probably need a more costly second
Denying women access to abortion is a form of gender discrimination.
Only women must live with the physical and emotional consequences of an
unwanted pregnancy. A woman has the right to determine the number
and spacing of her children. This requires the government to make
abortion services legal, safe, and accessible to all women.
One of the major reasons that girls drop out of school is either because
they get pregnant. Minors should not have to notify their parents before
getting an abortion. Some girls might be physically or emotionally harmed
if they are required to involve their parents in the decision to have an
abortion. However, they are aloud to go before a judge and say, "I'm
afraid to tell my parents that I'm pregnant because I'm afraid they might
harm me.", and she will be able to get an abortion without parental consent.
Access to legal abortion upholds women's right to control their destinies,
and allows children to be born into homes where they will be loved and
cared for. It reduces the number of unwanted children, some of whom
become criminals as a result of parental abuse or neglect. Planned
Parenthood's definition of "reproductive freedom" is the "fundamental right
of every individual to decide freely and responsibly when and wether to
have a child. Each year, seventy-five million women have unwanted
pregnancies. The father of the baby is not only important, but possibly
decisive in the choice to have an abortion. Women are significantly more
likely to have an abortion if they think the father of the child will not do a
Pro-life activists would treat the fetus as a complete person, but it is really a
nonentity, especially since it is not out of the womb until the second
trimester. In 1993, half of clinics responding to a survey reported severe
anti-abortion attacks. They included death threats, stalking, chemical
attacks such as butyric acid, arson, bomb threats, invasions, and
blockades. Making abortion illegal, will no more make the practice go
away than the outlawing of narcotics has stopped Americans from taking
illegal drugs. If abortion were made illegal, a woman who was raped
would be forced to bear a child. That violates her rights as a woman.
Our next generation will be approximately ten billion people. We have had
decades of failed population control strategies; and the best way to bring
down population is to give women contraception and the choice of wether
and when to have children. Legal abortion is one of the safest surgical
procedures in the United States; comparable to a tonsillectomy.
Abortion became legal in 1973, during the court case of Roe vs. Wade.
Jane Roe was unmarried and pregnant, and wished to terminate the
pregnancy, "performed by a competent, licensed physician, under safe,
clinical conditions." She was unable to get a local abortion in the state of
Texas, since her life was not in danger. She could not afford to travel
anywhere to get one. Jane Roe was abridged her right of personal
privacy, protected by the first, fourth, fifth, ninth, and fourteenth
Abortion can also be induced by a pill, for women who do not wish to be
seen by anyone, getting an abortion. RU-486, was approved for use by
the FDA in 2000. The pill blocks the production of progesterone, causing
the uterus to shed it's lining, dislodging the implanted embryo. A second
drug called misoprostol is then administered to bring about a menstrual
period. The combination of drugs has proven to be 95% effective in
ending pregnancy during the first seven weeks. Abortion needs to remain
legalized; more than one in five pregnancies already end in abortion.
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