Persuasive Essay On Abortion

The U.S supreme court has declared abortion to be a fundamental right guaranteed by the U.S constitution. The important Supreme Court decision in Roe V. Wade to some extent supported that view when it ruled that a woman 's right to terminate her pregnancy came under the freedom of a personal choice in family matters and was protected by the 14th amendment of the U.S constitution. A woman should have the right to choose either to abort or not because no one knows what situation the female is in, the government shouldn’t decide the fate of someone’s life, and men don’t have the right to determine whether a woman may or may not seek an abortion.

Pregnancy due to rape, is more common than rare. If a woman did not choose to engage in sexual activity in the first place, why should she have to carry to term a child that was the result of her forced union? Rape and incest are horrific wrongs. A woman, violated in a sexual assault should be surrounded by love and support. Women are often expected to be inferior to men and to the government. In the grand scheme of things, abortion is a woman’s choice. A pregnancy to a woman is perhaps the most determinative aspects of her life. It disrupts her body, it disrupts her education, her employment, and her entire family life. A woman has the choice to raise her child, give him/her up for adoption, or to abort it. This decision cannot be controlled by the pressures of peers and the constant debates in the political world. What a woman does