Abortion Pros And Cons

Abortions have created many debates because it relates to ethical, moral, and legal issues throughout the world, because it is legal this topic is going viral. This issue leads to the question of the baby’s rights and the women’s rights. Abortion should NOT be legal anywhere because it not only takes away a human life, but can also affect your mental and emotional health, and it takes away a teenager’s/adult’s accountability.

There are two types of ways to have an abortion, surgical abortion or medical abortion. Surgical abortion is a procedure performed in two different ways. If the women is in the first trimester the procedure is done with a suction. Around the twelfth week depending on the woman, it takes 2 to 3 days to prepare the cervix for dilatation. Medical abortion is done with two types of pills, mifepristone is the first pill you take to stop embryo’s growth. The second pill is called misoprostol, is taken a few days later to expel the embryo. When the fetus is aborted it is only the size of an average palm. However, some children can survive, Gianna Jessen was aborted and did not die. Her biological mother had a late-term saline abortion, where salt is injected into the mother's womb and it burns the baby inside and

out and have the dead baby 24 hours later. Although she survived, she was born with cerebral palsy (blessedcause.org).
Over 56 million unborn children have been killed since 1973 as recorded in 2014. That is about the population of Spain! Each and every hour about 155 babies are killed due to abortion. There has been 9,117 babies killed in 2015 so far just from rape! If the women had experienced a traumatic event like rape, is just going to add more trauma to her life from killing the baby. In New York only, more than 2,600 unborn children were killed that were older than 21 weeks (lifenews.com). Out of 1,000 people 13% and likely to have a miscarriage, 40% are going to have an abortion and only 47% will actually give birth to the baby. 88% of all abortions take place in the 12th week of pregnancy.
Abortion can also affect both your mental and emotional health. Scientists have proven that there is a 61% increased risk for many sudden mood changes. Women are also 6-7 times more likely to commit suicide than women who gave birth to a child. In addition to that, 81% higher risk of mental health problems, then a woman who hadn’t had an abortion. Statistics show that 35% of pregnant teenagers have an abortion. In the study of 500 aborted women, researchers found that 50% expressed negative feelings and 10% were having developed serious psychiatric complications. Abortions also damage your relationships with your family. Woman regret the abortion because it just causes an uproar.
An estimated twenty-eight million people in the United States have had at least one abortion. A woman who lacks support or encouragement from the other spouse tend to have an abortion. An exceedingly high number of women think that abortion will solve the problem, but it just causes more problems to arise. Most women do not seek for any advice for abortion-related issues. After abortion woman tend to start drinking alcohol, illegal drugs, abuse to one’s self or develop an eating disorder. A broad cross section of women have abortions. 58% and in their 20’s, 61% already have a child, 56% are unmarried, 69% economically disadvantaged and 73% report a religious affiliation (guttmacher.org).
A baby comes with responsibility and one doesn’t get to have that opportunity if you have an abortion, a woman who got pregnant could be considered less responsible for the consequences of her actions. Having an abortion gives up your chance of having and receiving responsibility. If one is responsible enough to have sex, she should have enough responsibility to take care of the baby. The major issue with abortion is that it assumes the freedom of choice without determining responsibility for her consequences. Having a child can be a major life change, because woman everywhere bear to put in the large responsibility that comes from having a child (babycenter.com).
Abortion is contrary to the golden rule, the golden rule is treating others the way you want to be treated. And taking away a child’s life 10 weeks old or even 24 weeks old is still disrespectful. Abortion is murder, murder is the taking of an innocent life. Men and woman state that “the baby isn’t alive when it was aborted,” if the baby is breathing and moving and can also feel pain it is alive. In the bible it states “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Jer. 1:5. (books.google.com)” So not only is abortion against the golden rule, it is also contradicting with what the bible states.
Late-term abortion is performed after about 24 weeks of pregnancy. The fetus starts to feel pain around 13 weeks of being in the mother’s womb. These babies are innocent and defenseless who can not only feel pain but who are torturously killed without anesthesia. The infants scream and cry as they die, but their voice is silenced by amniotic fluid going over their vocal cords. Ignoring the pain of any human individual is barbaric. A worker at Albuquerque late-term abortion facility stated that they injected into the mothers “sac”. Depending on how the baby is situated it will either pierce into the cranium or the baby’s bottom. If you’re under 18, your state may require your parents’ permission prior to your decision. 3 out of 10 women in the United States have an abortion by the age of 45. 20-30 million legal abortions are performed yearly. Showing that 10-20 million abortions are performed illegally.
With 1.5 million American families wanting a child there is no such thing as an “unwanted child” I few reasons why abortion is a terrible thing is that your pregnancy ends with death, you might feel guilt or shame after the process, you will always remember that you took as life, it is final you can’t go back and change anything, and you will miss the opportunity to watch your child grow and develop into a succeeding individual.
21% of woman have an abortion if they have inadequate finances, 21% are not ready to take on the responsibility, 16% there life would change drastically, and 12 % have problems with his or her relationship, 11% too young and immature, 3% health problems or 4% other. So many abortions happen just because the color of the child’s skin. 30% of abortions are because the baby is White, 37% because the child is African American, 22% Hispanic, and 8% other races. Most abortions are between the ages 15-29 (operationrescue.org).
In addition to that, the only way an abortion should ever be legal is if one is raped because the woman can’t do anything to protect his or her rights.

Rape is a despicable crime against women. Opinions are heated, and it seems that everybody has something to say about pregnancy in the case of rape. The woman who suffered from the sexual assault are more likely to experience distress after or during an abortion. When a woman gets raped, it isn’t wanted. If one was in that situation they wouldn’t want to constantly think about the fetus and how and when it occurred. One should not be obligated to go through the particular child birth. Who would want to give birth to a baby that would suffer his or her life not knowing who the father

was?
However, that should be the only reason a woman should have an abortion. The 14th Amendment was designed to protect classes of people like the unborn. At the time, the 14th Amendment was already illegal or was going to be illegal, then debates started to arise causing the topic to go viral. The 14th Amendment guarantees that no state shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law (nationalreview.com).
Woman have written that if one doesn’t want to spend the money for an abortion, she will put a leech or cayenne pepper up in her vagina, swallow lye, swallow gun powder, throwing herself down the stairs, hitting her stomach with a meat pulverizer or a brickbat, spending the night in freezing weather and/or bathing herself in scalding water (jezebel.com).
Having an abortion takes away the father’s right basically meaning that if the woman does not want to have or take care of the child she will have an abortion without asking the father’s approval. What causes this specific point to be discussed continuously is that one thinks that both the father and the mother have equal rights, although they do one of the other spouses thinks that their rights are more important. One thinks that because it comes out of the women that she has the final decision because it is her body. It can also be reversed, sometimes the mother wants to have the child, but the father insists on an abortion because he doesn’t feel either of them are ready for it (medic8.com).
In conclusion, this questionable topic is leading to the rights of the woman and the fetus’s life. It takes away a human life, affects your mental and emotional health, and takes away teenager’s and adult’s accountability. We have to stop abortion now to save a child’s life!