Abortions

Abortion is a true way of killing an innocent unborn child. Although women have the right to choose whether or not they would like to have abortion I still find it wrong in some cases. Women that have abortions for the reason such as they don’t want to have the responsibilities of parenthood and family life, the concern for or responsibility to other individuals, they cannot afford a child and/ or that having a baby would interfere with work, school or the ability to care for dependents and half say they do not want to be a single parent or are have problems with their husband or partner. Even situations where the women had been raped I feel have every right to have an abortion for the sake of helping that child’s life and even their own. Researchers say that nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion. Also, twenty-two percent of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion. Abortion is one of the most common medical procedures performed in the United States as approximately 1.3 million abortions performed each year. Fifty percent of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25. Many people consider themselves pro-life, which are mainly people that are diverse in economic status, race, religion, and education. Yet, they are unified by the concept that all humans, especially the innocent unborn, have an inherent right to life or pro-choice and they are the people that feel the fetus is not a human, just a mass of tissue. I would say I am more towards the pro-life but I feel that depending on certain situations that the women may have gone through; it is still up to her to decide. However, many of us have heard of the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court case where it created a new, basic constitutional right for women in the right to privacy which the Supreme Court had created only a few years earlier. That right to privacy was "broad enough to encompass a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy." On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court set all laws in every state that in any way had protected the lives of developing unborn children. It legalized abortion in all 50 states, for the full nine months of pregnancy, for social and economic reasons. That case was one of the most important and devastating Supreme Court decisions.