Why Abortion Should Be Legal

why abortion should be legal

in order to understand why abortion should be legal.

We first need to define what an abortion is

abortion is a medical procedure to terminate a pregnancy.

There can be medication you take or it could be a surgical procedure.

Why is the fight to make abortion legal? Important

recently, the US Roe V wade was overturned.

Roe V wade was the court case where the Supreme

Court ruled that it was constitutional to have an abortion.

Now that this ruling has been overturned,

abortion bans have gotten stricter throughout the country and has

become increasingly difficult for women to have access to abortions.

This is extremely dangerous for a woman as abortions helped to save lives.

The overturn is also home for because abortion bans hurt everyone,

which I will elaborate on more later in the presentation,

the

the accessibility of abortions in the US depends on where you are in it

planned parenthood has a great tool where you can click on

each day and see the accessibility of abortions in them.

This is a snapshot from the website and as you can see,

there are a lot of black and dark red states,

black means that abortion is completely banned in the state

no matter the circumstances behind a woman needing one.

While in dark red states,

abortion is banned unless under very certain conditions

like if the mother's life was in danger.

This is scary to see because abortions in most places are not

legal and even in the places where they are technically legal,

they are not easily accessible for women.

The research paper understanding why women seek abortions

written by biggest gold and foster following one

of all different backgrounds who had received abortions

and explored the reasoning behind their decisions.

40% said they were not financially prepared to have a baby. 36%,

said it was just not the right time for a baby.

31% said it was a partner-related reason.

29% said they needed to focus on their other kids.

20% said it interfered with future opportunities,

19% said they were not emotionally or mentally prepared to have a baby.

12% said it was health-related reasons,

12% said they could not provide a good enough life for the baby.

7% said that they were not independent or mature enough for it.

5% said it was influences from family and friends and 4% said they

didn't want a baby and they were against giving it up for adoption.

These stats prove that there's no main reason a woman receives an abortion.

And that is a complicated decision.

It also proves that abortion bands that only allow

abortion under certain conditions are ridiculous because there are

normally multiple reasons a woman decides to get an

abortion and it's almost impossible to pinpoint them.

This is the story of a woman in 1965 who had to get an abortion under legal conditions.

She had a loving husband and they already had

three kids and knew they could not afford 1/4.

So they made the hard decision to get an abortion. Although it was illegal.

Almost all physicians, all physicians knew how to perform one.

It was just after figuring out which ones would do it.

She called around to all her close friends have asked

if anyone knew of someone who performed the operation.

Eventually she found someone who was willing to do it

when she arrived at the place.

He was sketchy since his abortion cannot be formed in a hospital.

The place was not guaranteed to be sterile.

The doctor was also performing it alone and not with a group of trusted colleagues,

luckily her abortion was successful and she got to go

on living her life with her three Children and husband.

But a lot of the time women weren't so

lucky when it came to these underground surgeries.

Although the, what happened in 1965 now that roe v wade has been overturned,

this could become a reality today.

It seems crazy,

but stories like these are why we have to make sure abortion is

fully legal in the US so that we do not have to go back

in time and so that women don't have to put their lives on the

line to get a procedure that could easily be legal accessible and safe.

In Nicaragua.

There is a pregnant woman named Olga Reyes who was only

22 years old and one day had severe abdominal pains.

So she went to the doctor after doing ultrasounds. They found out her

ectopic pregnancy was rupturing her fallopian tube.

The egg can't implant itself outside of the womb.

And now the embryo could not survive it on its own. It was threatening

his life.

But still doctors waited to do anything about it

due to the recent ban on abortions in Nicaragua

sally.

They waited too long to do anything and the young woman went

into service arrest and lost her life due to the abortion ban.

A different danger of the abortion band is shown

in the story of Manuela in El Salvador,

Manuela was pregnant but one day became very ill. So she went to the hospital

there, she tragically miscarried instead of being offered support,

she was handcuffed to the hospital bed.

Manuela was charged with aggravated homicide under al savage

Abortion ban and was charged with 30 years in prison,

sadly she developed cancer and passed away two years after her arrest.

Although neither of these stories happened in the us.

It shows what the US could become as states

continue with their abortion bans and make them harsher.

These stories also show how abortion bans harm women and do not help at all.

People who want abortion of Leaguer are called

pro life and most people will fight for

pro life tend to take a religious side about it saying that it goes against God,

but Pew Forum did an interview with reverend Carlton where he explains how you

can be religious and pro choice and pro choice does not mean pro abortion.

Some quotes from the interview that stuck out to me

were when he said I had first hand experience of seeing

black women and poor women being disproportionately impacted by the

fact that they had no choices about an unintended pregnancy.

There.

He was talking about how when he volunteered and he saw how how women ended up

having to live in terrible conditions because they

were forced to carry and keep a child.

They were not ready for, they ended up miserable,

which is something God wouldn't want.

He also said that to have a child can be a sacred choice

but to not have a child can also be a sacred choice there.

He's showing that he has respect for either decision that a woman chooses and that

God will not judge them for their decision because they're both a sacred choice.

The reverend talks about him being pro choice by saying that the

religious pro choice position is based on the respect for human life,

including potential life and existing life,

he talks about the respect yes for women in their

future babies because even though he is pro choice,

it does not mean he wants abortion to happen.

Another quote that I told was when he said there's an assumption that

a woman would end in a viable pregnancy carelessly or without reason.

The facts don't bear this out.

Although this isn't about religion is still

something that is important to remember.

No woman is ending a pregnancy without any thought for

a good reason and it is irresponsible to assume otherwise.

The final quote from the interview is it's not that

I think we should try to win each other over,

but we have to have respect for other people's different beliefs.

I think this perfectly sums up what it means to

be pro choice as it doesn't mean pro abortion,

but it's just the right to choose whether you would have an abortion or not.

It's your right to choose and make the decision about your own body.

When you say that abortion bans hurt people,

most people assume you're only talking about women's health,

but abortion brands truly do hurt everybody.

In an article written by NPR, they talk about how abortion bans Hartman,

as we always talk about how women can be forced to be mothers too early.

They bring in how men are also forced to be fathers too early.

Dr Evert said in the article.

Their sons may become dads much earlier than they're prepared

for

in the article to talk about how young men who have been involved

in abortions are actually more likely to pursue college and make more money.

Abortion bans also heart women's advancements,

having access to abortions help many women have

the choice to be able to pursue school.

They could also have more control over their families and lives.

As secretary of the Treasury,

Janet Yellen said at the Senate Banking Committee hearing

roe V wade in access to reproductive health care,

including abortion, healthy to increase labor force participation

and enabled many women to finish school that increase their earning potential.

It allowed women to play in and balance their families and careers.

Surprisingly, abortion bans affect the economy too restrictive.

Abortion bans cost state and local economies $105 billion annually.

It's been proven that the amount of money it costs restrictive abortion bans

to exist hearts economy because abortion bans offer nothing beneficial in return,

It is just throwing money down the toilet to keep them going.

Throughout this presentation,

we have seen the different reasons a woman could have for

wanting to receive an abortion and that there isn't just one

main reason which shows us why abortion bans are harmful because

abortions are helpful and necessary to women for many different reasons

and trying to ban them causes harm to them.

We also saw how abortion bans harm not only women's health, but other things too.

Like many con

and women's advancements,

this proves why even if you are never going to abortion yourself,

you should still be pro choice and want abortions to

be legal since being pro choice does not mean being

pro abortion and it's just giving women the right to

choose what they want even if it's no abortion,

but making abortion legal and easily accessible in

this country has been proven to help everyone.

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