Abortion Needs to be Limited and Regulated

Pregnancy can be either wonderful, or terrifying. Complications result in miscarriages and deaths every day, and the weight of that knowledge can drown any expectant mothers joy in anxiety. Fear for the life that the child will lead, or even fear of how the child was conceived can send many to the abortion clinic or the nearest hospital that provides this procedure. However, many women who choose to end their child’s life may not realize the pain they are putting themselves through, and the alternatives they can take instead of this life-altering decision to throw away the person growing inside them. Something needs to be done, and in order for more children to live as they were meant to, abortions need to be limited and regulated in order to prevent unnecessary risk to human life.

A woman returns home from the clinic, without the child she once held inside her and instead of relief, she feels pain. Not the stinging of a wound or the aching of a broken bone, but a deep-rooted depression that eats away until all that is left is an emotional fissure right where happiness used to be. Many women who go through with an abortion find themselves more depressed than if they kept their child to term, which, if left unnoticed, may also lead to suicide. According to an article that focused on the link between abortion and suicide, “…actual data suggests that abortion is far more likely to drive an unstable woman to suicide than is pregnancy and childbirth” (Reardon) and also another article stated that, “Women who have aborted in the previous year are six times more likely to commit suicide than women giving birth” (Meehan). Some women who have aborted their child feel guilt for having killed the child, resulting in lower self-esteem and gr...

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