Rough Draft On Abortion

Research Paper Rough Draft

An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death. An abortion can occur spontaneously due to complications during pregnancy or can be induced. Abortion as a term most commonly refers to the induced abortion of a human pregnancy, while spontaneous abortions are usually termed miscarriages. Abortion has a long history and has been induced by various methods including herbal abortifacients, the use of sharpened tools, physical trauma and other traditional methods. Modern medicine utilizes medications and surgical procedures to induce abortion.

The debate over whether or not abortion should be a legal option continues

to divide Americans long after the US Supreme Court's 7-2 decision on Roe v. Wade declared the procedure a "fundamental right" on Jan. 22, 1973. America’s founding principles made no reference to rights of the unborn, as the bishops assert. It is dishonest to attempt to make the phrase in the Declaration of Independence about the “laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” mean what the pope means by natural law. It is also dishonest to assert that “all men are created equal” refers to male and female fetuses, when it didn’t even refer to slaves and women as having equal rights.
Three popular contending view options for abortion are that it is moral. "Women are moral agents, capable of making soulful, moral decisions about their own bodies. Assuming that a woman cannot decide for herself if and when to bear a child demeans women. Mandatory childbearing makes the woman a hostage to the will of others those unfamiliar with her story, her life experience and her needs, and may have disastrous consequences for the children. Medical choices, like terminating a pregnancy, are medically available. Other life sustaining medical procedures are not considered immoral.
Why the complaint against abortion?

The US Supreme Court has declared abortion to be a "fundamental right" guaranteed by the US Constitution. No woman should be required to give up her life or health or family security to save the life of a fetus that is threatening her well-being. Access to safe and legal abortion is an important aspect of women’s health care. Abortion is one of the safest medical procedures performed in the United States. The risk associated with childbirth is approximately fourteen times higher than abortion. Over 90% of abortions in the United States are performed in outpatient settings and almost all complications that arise after an abortion can be, and are, treated on an outpatient basis. Hospitalization due to an abortion is rare. There is a less than 0.3% risk of major complications following an abortion that might need hospital care and a recent study found that the risk of major complications from first trimester abortions by the aspiration method is even less—0.05%." We the affirmative hold that the current law on abortion is civil, humane, and inscrutable legal. It is our belief that if a woman does not find it appropriate to have child then she should not have to bear that burden. Those who disagree advocate striping women of their human right of happiness when saying they should not be able to decide for themselves whether they want a child or not. The process of which abortion takes place is very much so humane contrary to our opponents

beliefs. The woman is at very little risk during surgery with a less than .05% fatality rate opposed to actually birthing which causes an estimated 24,497 deaths per year for grown women. An estimated 322,441 teens die from childbirth each year. These teens were given a choice and they chose to attempt child labor but failed and imagine how many more would die if we were to eliminate the choice of abortion. Finally we shouldn’t we change a functional law as it was decided by the Roe V. Wade case. We decided when the embryo would be able to function and therefore live so it was made illegal to abort after the first trimester. This should be more than enough for our contenders but they selfishly want a stricter law which is completely unnecessary and excessive. If someone wants to abort then they would need more time to make this life changing decision so we should be asking for less restrictive laws instead of
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Elliott Industries did a study found that the suicide rate among women who had undergone abortions in the prior year was three times higher compared to women in the general population and six times higher compared to women who gave birth. 2013, 664,435 legal induced abortions were reported to CDC from 49 reporting areas. The abortion rate for 2013 was 12.5 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years, and the abortion ratio was 200 abortions per 1,000 live births. Compared with 2012, the total number, rate, and ratio of reported abortions for 2013 decreased 5%. Additionally, from 2004 to 2013, the number, rate, and ratio of reported abortions decreased 20%, 21%, and 17%, respectively. In 2013, all three measures reached their lowest level for the entire period of analysis (2004-2013). Women in their twenties accounted for the majority of abortions in 2013 and throughout the period of analysis. The majority of abortions in 2013 took place early in gestation: 91.6% of abortions were performed at ≤13 weeks’ gestation; a smaller number of abortions (7.1%) were performed at 14–20 weeks’ gestation, and even fewer (1.3%) were performed at ≥21 weeks’ gestation. In 2013, 22.2% of all abortions were early medical abortions. The percentage of abortions reported as early medical abortions increased 5% from 2012 to 2013. Primary, nationwide abortion statistics for the United States are available from two sources—privately from the Guttmacher Institute (AGI) and publicly from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In recent years, California, Maryland, and New Hampshire have not publicly released their abortion totals, rendering the CDC numbers incomplete. The following information has been gleaned from both sources to provide an overview of the frequency and demography of abortion. Additional, secondary statistics have been taken from the National Abortion Federation (NAF) 2009 teaching text on abortion, Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy: Comprehensive Abortion Care.
We the affirmative hold that the current law on abortion is civil, humane, and inscrutable legal. It is our belief that if a woman does not find it appropriate to have child then she should not have to bear that burden. Those who disagree advocate striping women of their human right of
happiness when saying they should not be able to decide for themselves whether they want a
child or not.

The process of which abortion takes place is very much so humane contrary to our

opponents beliefs. The woman is at very little risk during surgery with a less than .05% fatality

rate opposed to actually birthing which causes an estimated 24,497 deaths per year for grown

women. An estimated 322,441 teens die from childbirth each year. These teens were given a

choice and they chose to attempt child labor but failed and imagine how many more would die if

we were to eliminate the choice of abortion. Finally we shouldn’t we change a functional law as

it was decided by the Roe V. Wade case. We decided when the embryo would be able to function and therefore live so it was made illegal to abort after the first trimester. This should be more than enough for our contenders but they selfishly want a stricter law which is completely unnecessary and excessive. If someone wants to abort then they would need more time to make this life changing decision so we should be asking for less restrictive laws instead of

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Work Cited
Decreased suicide rate after induced abortion, after the Current Care Guidelines in Finland 1987 – 2012. Gissler M, Karalis E, Ulander VM. Scand J Public Health. 2014 Nov 24.
Suicides after pregnancy in Finland, 1987-94: register linkage study. Gissler M, et. al. Br. Medical Journal. 313: 1431. 1996 Dec 7.

Liu, Joseph. “A History of Key Abortion Rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court.” Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project, 16 Jan. 2013, www.pewforum.org/2013/01/16/a-history-of-key-abortion-rulings-of-the-us-supreme-court/.

The University of Tennessee at Martin, www.utm.edu/staff/jfieser/class/160/5-abortion.htm.

The University of Tennessee at Martin, www.utm.edu/staff/jfieser/class/160/5-abortion.htm.