Persuasive Essay On Abortion

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Does a fetus have rights? Many people think so, they think that abortion is violating the embryos’ rights. Do an embryo's rights trump the rights of the mother? They don't. Having a baby can be hard on the mother economically, mentally, and physically. When the Romanian government banned abortions women were still got them and deaths due to illegal abortions skyrocketed. Teenage girls who get pregnant are shunned and shamed by parents, friends and their communities and births in hospitals are very expensive. The Supreme Court has even said that banning abortions would be unconstitutional due to the 14th amendment. Many of the Republican candidates for president believe that abortion should be illegal. Abortion should be a woman's choice. During the case of Roe v. Wade when the Supreme Court was decided whether a woman's rights included the right to choose to abort a pregnancy. The verdict was the "Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action" includes "a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of …show more content…

When you ban abortions, women are still frantic to get rid of their pregnancy. In Romania, they had sketchy procedures performed on them, just to rid themselves of their baby . A woman named Cherisse in Illinois was told that “If you have an abortion now, you’ll rupture your uterus and won’t be able to have children in the future.” She was scared and didn’t know what to do so she went ahead and had her son. Soon after his birth she lost her job and couldn’t afford to pay her COBRA, utilities, rent and food. Since then, she has had three abortions. If Cherisse had the important information that she needed to make an informed decision about having an abortion she could have kept her job and been able to pay for food. Would it have been better to save Cherisse from poverty and homelessness or to restrict her from an

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