Abortion: A Controversial Historical Perspective

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“We 're always going to argue about abortion. It 's a hard choice and it 's controversial, and that 's why I 'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.”(Hillary Clinton). An abortion will happen when an embryo or fetus is expelled from the woman 's body. An abortion is between the week sixteenth and the twentieth week of pregnancy. Abortions did not come about until the 1800s, they stayed until the 1960s through the 1970s.In many other countries, it was safe to do an abortion on a woman, but since the United States still did not allow them women were still going through with the abortion unsafely. In the United States women were doing them illegally they would risk permanent injury or death. Many women have had kids with …show more content…

These children don 't ever get to open their eyes in the world. They don’t get to meet their family that they would put into by God. Rush Limbaugh discusses “The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where 's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there 's nothing wrong with them?” This world should be working to reduce abortion because it is not the child 's fault that it should be killed. There should be no compromise between life or death of a child that has not been alive for a couple of months of their life that god had given them. However this point of view seems like it is valid but however, it doesn’t show how abortion really is. Abortion should be legalized everywhere. It will prevent poverty for parents who are unable to take care of their newborn children the only other help they are able to get is by the government, which mean they are taking taxpayers money to help families in need. This money that these parents are taking from the government could be put to use in something better for everyone else in the world. Women should always have a freedom of choice. Employment is one of the big things, why abortion should be legalized in the United State because most women would like to not have kids when they know their career is going well. Most women wouldn’t like to take maternity leave and have to have childcare. Denying women to have control over their bodies will probably create many problems. Most teens do not know how much work it is to have a child. Teenages will pressure their parents for help because they do not have enough

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