Elizabeth Stone On Abortion Research Paper

Lucas Artis

Ms. Neumann

English 9

04 September 20XX

Elizabeth Stone states, “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go outside your body.” Abortion should be illegal because the constitution grants us the right to life, fathers have no legal rights to prevent abortion, and adoption is a viable option.

Abortion was legal in the United States from the time the earliest settlers arrived. At the time the Constitution was adopted, abortions were openly advertised and commonly performed. In the mid-to-late 1800s states began passing laws that made abortion illegal. During the 1800s, abortion was extremely risky. As scientific methods began to improve, and technologies were developed to prevent

infection, medical care on the whole became much safer and more effective. But by this time, the vast majority of women who needed abortions had no choice but to get them from illegal practitioners without these medical advances at their disposal. The “back alley” abortion remained a dangerous, often deadly procedure, while areas of legally sanctioned medicine improved dramatically.
In the years before Roe v.

Wade, the estimates of illegal abortions ranged as high as 1.2 million per year. Between 1967 and 1973 one-third of the states repealed their criminal abortion laws. However, the right to have an abortion in all states was only made available to American women in 1973 when the Supreme Court struck down the remaining restrictive state laws with its ruling in Roe v. Wade. The 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade made it possible for women to get safe, legal abortions from well-trained medical practitioners.

Article 2 of the United States Constitution is the Human Rights Act which protects your right to life, “This means that nobody, including the Government, can try to end your life. It also means the Government should take appropriate measures to safeguard life by making laws to protect you and, in some circumstances, by taking steps to protect you if your life is at risk.”

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Fathers have no legal rights to prevent their unborn child from being aborted. ¨For, as the law stands, neither fetus nor father have any rights until a child is born.” If a man's pregnant partner seeks to have an abortion, the father's consent isn't legally required. A woman may choose to terminate a pregnancy against the objections of the father. The legal reasoning for this has two parts, the first is based on a woman's right to privacy in her medical decisions, and the second is the fact that the mother is more directly affected by the pregnancy.
http://wrtl.org/abortion/fast-facts/
"Abortion: Who decides?; Pregnancy should be a time for celebration, for both the mother and father - not a time to go to the law Should men have the right to interfere in abortion issues?

Ros Dodd reports." Birmingham Post [England] 28 Mar. 2001: 40. Business Insights: Global. Web. 31 May 2018.

Over 2 million couples each year are waiting to adopt a baby. The best way to handle an adoption is to go through an adoption agency. Good agencies are licensed, offer counseling, do background checks on parents wanting to adopt, offer lawyer help, keep records, and can help a difficult process become less stressful. A second choice for adoption can also be to keep the child within the family system. ¨Most professionals agree that keeping the baby within the family system can be the best situation, but it also depends on the family circumstances.¨

¨Why single mothers opt for abortion instead of adoption.¨ Daily Mail (London, England) (Mar.11, 1998) Byline: Steve

Doughty
Options Other Than Abortion When Faced with an Unplanned Pregnancy Posted on March 21, 2011 by Maxine

Women find themselves with unwanted pregnancies, in circumstances where they are unable to cope with being pregnant, or even pregnant in cases of violent situations. However, there are still other ways to deal with these situations instead of using abortion, such as the examples given above. Women also have resources available to them for help when faced with unexpected pregnancies, including counseling support, parenting classes, and even temporary foster care to give the parent time to adjust to their new circumstances.
Abortion should be banned because the constitution gives us the right to life, fathers cannot have a say in the abortion, and adoption can be an option instead of abortion. Unless a motherś life is in danger, abortion should not be an option. A baby is a life as soon as it is conceived and should be born into a world where it has a chance to live and grow.