Self-Induced Abortion

An immigrant woman regrets getting pregnant and wants to abort her child. The immigrant woman fears of being deported back to her country, so she decides to abort her own child without going to the Hospital to get a proper procedure. Immigrant women, like this one, are deciding to abort their own baby instead of leaving the procedure to medical experts. Many consequences arise when immigrant women used different types of methods to abort their child because the fear of deportation or being shun by their community. Immigrant women should leave the abortion method to medical experts regardless of personal problems that might arise later on.
Abortion is defined as the removal of a fetus from the uterus, resulting in the death of the fetus (“The American Heritage Dictionary,” 2000). A woman would abort their baby because they cannot provide the basic necessities for the baby. However, in immigrant mothers, they fear of being caught as an illegal immigrant at the Hospital. There are also religions that forbid abortion as a sign of shamefulness, so women would rather induce their own abortion to make it seem it was a natural miscarriage. Immigrant families are in a financial crisis and therefore cannot pay for the medical expenses of an in – clinic abortion (Tornoe, 2009). These reasons should not justify the means of performing self – induced abortion for the sake of being hidden from authority.
In turn, immigrant women would induce their own abortion instead of going to the Hospital, like damaging their physical body to kill the fetus. Immigrant women would fall down the stairs or take a chair and hit their belly so many times until they bleed (Tornoe, 2009). The force of the objects would kill the fetus immediately, but the mother w...

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...e no harm inflicted on the mother and there would be no need to go the hospital in the first place. However, Doctors have many years of experience to know what a woman needs when it comes to medical procedures.

Works Cited

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