The Pros And Cons Of Abortion

There are tons upon tons of babies born every day. Among those babies there is bound to be some suffering from birth defects. Things such as severe genetic abnormalities or exposure to environmental toxins. These things can come from parents abusing drugs or alcohol while pregnant. The people involved need to take more responsibility to make sure these things don’t happen during pregnancy. As it stands though these things do happen. When they happen people have to make the choice if they will keep or abort the baby due to these genetic abnormalities or problems because of environmental toxins.

Now the act of abortion is a big talking point in the world. Some people are for it and some people are against it. It is very irresponsible

Dr. Mercola (2014) stated that in a survey of over 2,500 obstetricians 78 percent said they could reduce the risk of exposure to environmental toxins by consoling their patients. Dr. Mercola (2014) also noted that 50 percent of these doctors rarely take an environmental health history and less than 20 percent said they routinely ask about environmental exposures common to pregnant women. These numbers indicate to me that the doctors also have to take more of a responsivity of asking and preparing women for dealing with these toxins and risks it can have on the baby. We have to come together as citizens and doctors to do our best to limit birth defects especially birth defects by way of exposure to these toxins. This seems to be an issue a lot of doctors and patients don’t put a ton of spotlight on. Dr. Mercola (2014) also noted that the lead author of this research Naomi Stotland said “Providers were saying, if I bring this up with patients… it’s going to raise anxiety and questions that I don’t know how to deal with… There’s a sense that, yes, these things may be harmful, but I don’t how to tell her how to reduce the risk. “Reading this quote I was a bit in awe that for all the schooling that doctors go through they don’t how to deal with this important subject. More research needs to go into this so doctors can be more educated on how to deal with this so they

When I read that I was astonished and disappointed that we could be so unsafe about potentially harmful chemicals LeBlanc (2010) went on to give a reason. That reason being that the Environmental Protection Agency can only require after there is proof that a substance poses a health risk under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976. LeBlanc (2010) goes on and states that this is the only major environmental regulation that has not been updated and that only five chemicals have been regulated since the law enacted. This act is insane to me and I can’t believe it was ever passed. It seems pretty obvious to me that we should test chemicals for safety before we put them on the market. We should do this for a number of reasons. One of the more important being the health of pregnant women and their