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... Supreme Court ruled against a Texas The purpose of this persuasive essay/paper is to emphasize many points that some people may not have considered regarding abortion. The issue of abortion is more than the simple question of women controlling their own bodies and lives. The issue of abortion is a matter of life and death for an innocent human being. However, the title of pro-choice does not commit a person to being pro-abortion. On the contrary, a person who is pro-choice might no believe that abortion should be against the law completely. While some believe that abortion is a matter of human life, others believe that it is a health issue, a moral issue, and a privacy issue that is also a right that should be guaranteed based on our constitutional freedom of religion and conscience.
Abortion has become one of the most widely debated ethical issues of our time. On one side are pro-choice supporters-individuals who favor a woman’s reproductive rights, including the right to choose to have an abortion. On the other side are the pro-life advocates, who oppose abortion except in extreme circumstances, as when a mother’s life would be threatened by carrying a pregnancy to term. A variety of ethical arguments have been made on both sides of the abortion issue, but no consensus or compromise has ever been reached because, in the public policy debate, the most vocal pro-choice and pro-life champions have radically different views about the status of a fetus.
Today, thirty years since the legalization of abortion, over 30 millions legal abortions have taken place in the United States. To me, this is an issue that is more about life than it is about a woman’s rights to control her own body. Right away some will say that abortion is not a matter of life and death, arguing that a fetus is not a “person”, or a “human being”. ... Even most medical texts and pro-choice doctors agree that life begins at conception, not at birth, and that the beginning of human life is not a religious, moral, or philosophical issue; it is a scientific and biological one. ...
This individual, who can be denied life, has other rights. ...
The problem I have with abortion is: why should we deny this individual the right to live? ... Some believe that even though there may be life, or potential life that by denying a woman the right to an abortion is denying her control of her body. ... However, the fetus is a completely separate life from the woman. ... Just because the unborn is dependent on the mother for nine months doesn’t give anyone the right to choose to end its life? ... Trying to justify abortion by arguing that the unborn does not have this right is a form of discrimination based on age and the fact that they cannot speak for themselves. ... A study by the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect indicates that child abuse has increased by 500% since abortion was legalized in 1973. ... Consider the likely possibility that legalized abortion contributes to the atmosphere of disregard for life and the resentment of children that lead to child abuse.
Some pro-choice advocates and supporters might argue that women would seek “back-alley” or illegal abortions if abortion were not kept legal. ... Wade, “The state is constitutionally barred, however, from requiring review of the abortion decision by a hospital committed or concurrence in the decision by two physicians other than the attending physician. The constitution also prohibits a stat from requiring that the abortion be in hospital licensed by the Joint Committed of Accreditation of Hospitals or indeed that it be a hospital at all.”
It should also be remembered that death occurs every time an abortion is performed-the death of an unborn child. The unborn has absolutely no control when the mother chooses to abort, but the mother has control over choosing an illegal abortion that they know could be harmful.
Approximate Word count = 3341
Approximate Pages = 13.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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