Should Abortion be Restricted

Keeping Abortion Legal (Yes)

Abortion has been one of this country's most controversial topics on hand. But if one sees the constitutional infringement to women by the restriction of abortion, the torment to the unwanted child and the anguish society has to sustain, then this topic would not be so debatable. Too many people do not see the cause and effect of not being able to have abortions.

All human beings are given some inalienable right guaranteed by the Constitution. One of those privileges is the right to pursue happiness. A baby can sometimes disrupt a woman's pursuit of happiness. Even if she decides to give it up for adoption, she still has the burden of carrying the fetus for nine months. Having the option to perform an abortion can solve that obstacle. Taking away this right would be invading on a woman's constitutional liberty. It is always an important step to let women know that they do have a choice.

An abortion can be seen as putting the child out of misery while he doesn't have the ability to reason or fear. In short, abortion allows a woman to retain her constitutional rights, it relieves would be suffering child out of his distress and it establishes a safer and more peaceful society. On these grounds, abortion should be kept legal and even encouraged to specific individuals, for benefits to all of us.

Keeping Abortion Legal (No)

Are doctors really being kind to the girl to allow her to choose life or death for her unborn child? Take for instance, the situation in aborting a 16-year-old this year with so-called informed consent, we may be preventing her from having even 1 or 2 children 10 years later when happily married.

No, repealing the abortion law does not make it possible for every women to safely eliminate, what is for her, an unwanted pregnancy I agree that the fetus has not developed it's full potential as a human being: but neither have any of us. Nor will any of us have reached that point: that point of perfect humanness, when we die. Because some of us may be less far along the path than others, that does not give them the right to kill us. But those in favor of abortion assume that they have that right, the standard being arbitrary. To say that a 10-week fetus has less value that a baby means also that one must consider a baby of less value than a child, a young adult of less value than an old man.

Surely one cannot believe this and still be civilized and human. A society that does not protect its individual members is on the lowest scale of civilized society. One of the measures of a more highly civilized society, is its attitude towards its weaker members. If the poor, the sick, the handicapped, the mentally ill, the helpless are not protected, the society is not as advanced as in a society where they are protected. The more maturer the society is, the more there is respect for the dignity and rights of all human beings.

The function of the laws of the society is to protect and provide for all members so that another individual group can victimize no individual or group of individuals. Every member of Canadian society has a vital stake in what value system is adopted towards its weak, aged, cripple; it's helpless intra-uterine members, a vital stake in who chooses life or death.

My Viewpoint

Can we choose death for another while life is all we ourselves know? I will leave the decision for God to make because it is not for man to make; therefore I chose the religious standpoint.

Additionally, In summary, a woman's right to choose can justify abortion, but it should be banned because it's immoral and life begins at conception. Women have been given the right to have an abortion under the United States Constitution, but this right is still being protested by the people that fight for the unborn's rights. Pro-life activists claim that it's immoral because it is simply defined as murder.

Life begins at conception is another strong point brought up by pro-life activists. Before a child is born it is given all it's necessities to survive. Notice the operative word is before. Before birth the child's heart beats, the gastric juices flow in the stomach, and all its necessary organs have been made present. This is a child that thinks, dreams, and feels pain. Yes, some women may look at having an abortion to solve her personal problems, but in all, women are abandoning the abortion because it weakens their great strengths: creation, compassion and the ability to look beneath the surface of appearance of things. Maybe soon the abortion issue will reverse, and people will see the rights of the unborn as greater importance than that of a personal right.