The Controversial Issue Of Abortion In The United States

Abortion is the, “the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of a pregnancy”. Throughout the years, abortion has become one of the most controversial topics of all time. Many people believe it is immortal and should be considered illegal. However, many of those people do not consider that fact that abortions would still be performed, yet they would be less safe for the women. With that in mind, on November 8, 2016, millions of Americans including myself went to vote for their 45th president. The 2016 election included serval issues including the economy, terrorism, and abortions. When voting, I in particular listened to the candidates, opinions on many topics but mostly for their stance

First, the federal government has a say in what is or is not legal. The fight for women to have the right to have an abortion has been going on for more than forty years. Starting, in 1965 when the federal Medicaid program insured low-income individuals and their families. Then in 1973, in the United States Supreme Court Case, Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decided that the choice to have an abortion is protected under the United States Constitution. According to, this case it was constitutional for a women to have an abortion since she does have the right to privacy. Although the Supreme Court decided that abortions do not violate the constitution, however, since this ruling there has been several cases discussing abortions. An example of one of the more recent cases being, in 2007 when the Supreme Court upheld the first federal law banning abortion procedures. More specially, this cases banned the use of partial-birth abortions. As a result, of the brutality of this type of abortion; in fact, a partial-birth abortion is when a living child is delivered, feet first until the naval is outside the mother’s body then the doctor would perform an overt act to kill it. In addition to Supreme Court rulings, the Hyde Amendment was passed in 1997. This amendment withholds federal Medicaid funding from abortion nationwide with few exceptions. This amendment unfairly restricted insurance for millions of low-income women

These decisions have restricted women all over the country from low-income families to women in rural areas even affecting the health care providers who perform abortions. I believe that each women has the right to her body; but none the less, there will always be a debate of whether abortion is murder or not. My proposal for the issue on abortion would start with the federal government. I would have the Hyde Amendment removed because it does not allow the use of Medicaid for abortions, which in my opinion is malarkey because the federal government says you can have an abortion, but if you use federal insurances like Medicaid they will not support you. In addition, the federal court system should stop adding regulations to the right to have an abortion, such as when you can have one because I do not believe the government should be involved when its people are making some of the hardest and most personal decisions. Meanwhile, I believe that the states laws are excessive and unnecessary, only making abortions less accessible to women. In short, if the state government is not going to pass logical laws that make abortions safer for women there is no point to them making these laws. Lastly, at the local level I feel that more needs to be done to protect women and health care professionals from angry protestors. For example, law enforcement should be working with abortion clinic; rather than,