Criminalization Of Abortion

having an abortion can really scar women mentally and emotionally. When the woman has an abortion they are basically killing their own child. Do you think the mother can live with that? Many women just think that they can just have an abortion if they get pregnant, but some of them don 't think about how hard it is at the moment. Gary Bauer said “A 2009 poll found that of people who knew a woman who had had an abortion, 55 percent said her abortion was a negative experience, and only 33 percent a positive experience.” People can say that if the women is going to have an abortion, they must put careful thought into it before doing it.

A very popular topic that divides the nation greatly is abortion, many think its wrong and cruel, while others believe its correct in certain situations. You can see the effects of this with the government trying to defund Planned Parenthood, Congress votes to defund and the president overrides it and nothing gets achieved. Media might want to portray this as “Men being horrible humans and they have no right to choose what a women can do with their bodies” and attack men, but there are also women against Planned Parenthood, and thats how it goes with controversial topics, media try to shape to what benefits them and their views. Or, they will try to portray it a specific way that only shows one side saying horrific things and not the other . This is called Political Socialization which is the process by which people form their ideas about politics and acquire their ideas about the government.

). Pro choice activists feel that states have once again have interfered with a woman’s choice to choose. One error made by abortion supporters is that they believe that states are now creating hostile conditions for woman to have abortions. According to “Abortion Rights are Threatened”, states are mandating that woman receive “biased” counseling and that parental involvement requirements become harsher for minors electing to have abortions. Despite some states requiring additional measures prior to having an abortion, countless lives are still terminated each day.

There is a long untold history on abortion before it was officially legalized and accepted in a society. Between the 1800’s and 1973 abortion was criminalized and was believed to be the devils practice to anyone who tried to perform abortions and those who chose to try and do abortions were thrown into jail for helping a women. During this time, women of both black and white races were shunned from their homes and sent to an asylum or arrested along with their lover if the women got pregnant before marriage. In fear of being shunned or arrested, women performed illegal abortions that were very deadly, women tried inflicting pain to themselves by throwing themselves down stairs, or tried stabbing themselves in the stomach with scissors or knifes. They also injected poisons and toxins such as bleach into their bodies which caused most women organ failure and/or death, and if they survived they were disfigured or were in pain from permanent injuries.

A great example of those who were not in favor were, ”Advocates for voluntary motherhood disapproved of contraception, arguing that women should only engage in sex for the purpose of procreation and advocated for periodic or permanent abstinence” (Blundell 3). The pill is so controversial because it prevents a life from being created and allows people to have sex without thought or remorse. Women that are on birth control may also be more prone to cheating on their partners because there will be no physical evidence that they committed adultery. However, it can very useful to those who are committed to one another, but aren’t ready to have a child yet. Women have been involved in, “The movement that articulates the rationale for reproductive freedom in positive moral and political terms, as a requirement for social justice, human rights, and women’s well-being” (Roberts 1).

However this fuels the social attitude in which women must seek permission, when many consider abortion to be a right which all women should have access too. This poses the question of if limiting the rights of women is ever justifiable in the best interests of the baby, the roman catholic church argue that a foetus is a person from the moment of conception this means that they to are entitled to the same rights of the mother and to have an abortion is to murder a living being. From this perspective it is apparent that they argue it is justifiable to put the rights of the foetuses; despite this point when a foetus is though to gain rights is a key point to this argument. As personhood would determine when a foetus is able to gain rights, although critics would argue that even still this does not warrant them to have the same full rights that the mother would

Many women in the United States have multiple abortions due to preventative method failure, but is this a logical reason to eliminate a pregnancy. Weren 't this women fully aware that any type of birth control is not 100% guaranteed? They rely on the method they are using and then justify themselves on it 's failure. In the article “Repeat Abortions: Blaming the Victims” by Howe, Barbara, H. Roy Kaplan, and Constance English they implicate that “the number of legal abortions in the United States has increased annually”(1242). This is due to the lack of knowledge in women for not being sexual educated enough or not using the method responsibly.

Abortion became legal in America in 1973 due to a Supreme Court case Roe vs Wade and has continued to be a popular issue (“Roe v. Wade”). Abortion is a topic that many people have different views on and feel strongly about. It’s also a very heated topic within the government parties, with the disagreement of each one’s views. Democrats believe that women have the right to decide what they want to do with their body. They also believe that a fetus is not a human life, therefore, they have no individual rights.

Abortion is against many religions and is frowned upon by many people and takes innocent children’s life away. A lady told a story about a conversation her and her mother had because she was thinking about going through with an abortion. This is what the mother said; “Termination in my religion is a sin and will punish you after death unless you also die.” (Alison p.485)This shows how religious people see abortion and the way you should be treated if you go through with abortion. It says that if you take someone’s life away you should be punished for it and abortion is not any different from shooting someone at point-blank. Abortion takes a person’s life away and if it is okay to you then you should be punished.

In America, abortion has been a huge controversy for women. That is because abortion is the killing of a women 's baby during pregnancy. As harsh as that sounds, some women believe they have the right to abort their unborn child, and sadly they do. They are called the Pro-Choice movement. Although, religious or not, there are women that strongly believe that a baby 's life deserves to live no matter what, and they are called the Pro-Life movement.