Essay, Research Paper: Abortion: Freedom Of Choice

Freedom Of Choice Peter Farmer
Period 6

Since 1973 abortion has been an important, controversial issue to the United States. The problem should it be a woman's choice whether or not to terminate her pregnancy or should it be the governments choice? This is where a woman looses her rights as a person. If abortion is not remained legal women will start performing them illegally. One half of all pregnancies in the United States end in abortion, 2,500 of these abortions will be performed illegally.
Although some oppose abortion for being used as a form of birth control, Abortion should remain legal because it is a woman's choice and protects the privacy of an individual. Some teenagers and woman abuse abortion as a form of birth control. Many women have used legal abortions as a drastic form of contraception, due to carelessness or ignorance of better methods.
Abortion should remain legalized for the fact that if it's not kept legal many women will perform illegal abortions. This is such as self-abortion methods, which are even more dangerous; these included are lye, Lysol, iodine douches, as well as self-inserted catheters, knitting needles and goose quills. This may do serious harm to the mother and her body. Abortion is a woman's choice. Woman accepted the definition that a woman's prime role was as wife and mother and control of ones own body. Once they had choices about life roles, they came to feel they had the right to choose abortion to run their own lives.
Any woman should have the ability to choose when to have a child in their marital and sexual freedom. Many woman feel if they didn't have the right to choose an abortion in their life they would have passed by many opportunities to create a better life for themselves. For men, or state or the physicians who hold control over whether pregnancy should take place and the woman to suffer alone the consequences that the decision would be best for their careers, education, or social status came to see wrong and cruelly oppressive.


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