Abortion Should Be Legal In The United States

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Women should have their own decision of keeping their child or not, not the government. Abortion should not be a controversial topic like it is today, every women should have the opportunity to abort an unborn child. Abortion is stopping the path of pregnancy and removing the fetus from the female. Women in this common day can’t always provide for a newborn. Why force a single mother to keep her baby if she will work herself into the ground trying to provide for it. Why wouldn’t she just resort to going to a unprofessional for help? Abortion should always be legal in the United States and not a debate.
Most people know what an abortion is but what is the true definition? What is the process? Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing …show more content…

As everyone knows, being a single mother is an extremely hard task to pull off. Emotionally, physically, and economically stressful for women. Is our government trying to put this kind of weight on their backs? State laws are constantly in flux and change year to year. Also abortion reduces welfare costs to taxpayers. Abortion helps the society in more ways than the common person can think of. Birth has a grueling effect on women's bodies. After birth women would be in pain or recover for sometimes up to weeks. Our legislative, and other branches of government are majority men and do not know the struggle of going through birth. As an American I know that the people around me do not want an unwanted baby struggling to get food throughout the first years of their lives. It is a fundamental right for women to choose whether than want an abortion or not. Throughout history we have seen that once these clinics and other safe spaces to get abortions get taken away people resort to unsafe abortions. Illegal abortions are extremely dangers and often end up with death. These back street abortions are dirty, unsafe, and mentally taxing. Another downside to the government making abortions harder to get is that teen pregnancy would skyrocket. Does our country want children to have children? Having sexual intercourse should not come with a punishment. Making women unable to abort their unwanted child would be the punishment in this scenario. The history of abortion took many twist and turns and dates back to ancient

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