ANALYSIS PAPER ONE: ABORTION AND WOMEN

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Every women deserves the individual right to choose whether or not to have an abortion. A female’s reasons may be unclear to someone else however it is her personal choice. In the mid-to-late 1800s states began passing laws that made abortion illegal. The ban of abortions only leads to an increase of back-alley abortions. “Criminalization of abortion did not reduce the numbers of women who sought abortions. In the years before Roe v. Wade, the estimates of illegal abortions ranged as high as 1.2 million per year. Although accurate records could not be kept, it is known that between the 1880s and 1973, many thousands of women were harmed as a result of illegal abortion.”
[Abortion Was Legal]. Retrieved April 29th 2014, from: https://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/history_abortion.html) Roe v. Wade, a ruling made in 1973, declared that a state law that banned abortions except to save the life of the mother was completely unconstitutional. The Court ruled that the states were forbidden from outlawing or regulating any aspect of abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy.
During the time period abortions were illegalized, it’s estimated that thousands of women died or suffered serious debilitating medical problems after attempting to self-induce their abortions or going to untrained practitioners through back-alley abortions who used primitive methods as well as unsanitary conditions. Once an abortion attempt was made, the hospital had to treat these women. However many of them were treated with distain. Some women are not fit to be mothers and some were just unprepared. Whatever the reason it’s the woman’s concern.
On April 18, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a new federal law which banned abortion. Aft...

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...nd suffered from infections as a result of back-alley abortions. A women’s body is her temple. While every measure should be taken to inform a women of alternate choices such as adoption and the morning after pill, inevitably it is her choice whether or not to continue a pregnancy. If a women is raped or has medical complications at any point of a pregnancy, she should not be forced to bring a child into this world that she is not prepared for.

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[History of Abortion] Retrieved 4/28/2014 from: https://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/history_abortion.html [Federal Abortion Ban] Retrieved April 28th 2014 from: http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/abortion-access/federal-and-state-bans-and-restrictions-on-abortion/ [Induced Abortion in the United States] Retrieved April 28th 2014 from:
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

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