Abortion Presentation - Public Presentations

Welcome today. We will be talking about abortions. I am maddie mccreary.

I am with planned parenthood and I look

forward to giving this informative speech to you

just a quick trigger warning. This information is very sensitive today.

I'll be discussing abortions, assault, incest,

things that are very difficult for some people.

So please keep that in mind as you go through the presentation with me and

let it and you may leave or click out if there's anything that is disturbing.

First off, we want to talk about what is abortion In the simplest terms,

it is the termination of pregnancy.

It's obviously a very nuanced subject and

something that can become very polarizing.

People are going to different spectrums and we want to make

sure that this is something people have the correct information on

A fact is that one out of every four women will

have an abortion by the time they are 45 years old.

So it is not as uncommon as people believe.

Another thing are the types of

of abortions. We will be talking about surgical instruction, which is when the

the doctor goes through the vaginal canal through the cervix

to take out the pregnancy and terminate it. And the other is a pill

that is prescribed to the mother or the person

that is carrying the pregnancy to terminate it.

Another misconception is that emergency contraceptive

is a formative of an abortion.

It is not.

It is most commonly known as Plan B.

However,

this just prevents the implantation of an egg after it's been fertilized by sperm.

It prevents sperm from going to the egg or

sometimes it even prevents the ovulation of the egg.

Next I wanted to go through a brief history

of what we will be talking about today and how abortion has affected our society.

Abortion has been around for centuries.

However, it has been a little bit more medieval until the last two centuries.

In 1821,

the first legislation was enacted which put the first kind of

rules around abortion and what is allowed and what isn't allowed.

That also provided a sense of safety so

that women were no longer seeking unsafe abortions.

In 1890, physician consent was needed,

which is the consent of two physicians that

the pregnancy does need to be terminated.

However, this took away

the

decision surrounding women's

Rights to abortion.

However,

it was now more feasible and in 1971 Roe vs Wade was enacted and

ruled by the Supreme Court that all women have the right to a safe,

free and accessible abortion within the first two months of pregnancy.

Yeah.

Now why might someone have an abortion?

The first is the lack of support, financial, mental or physical

financially

Children are expensive and women may not be able to support that.

They may not have the correct job or be in the right mindset,

mentally having a child and carrying a child,

but then also taking care of the child is a very large emotional toll

and mental toll

especially it can be mentally tolling if you have to put

that child into foster care when the foster care system within the

our country and the world is not a great one.

Also, physically,

it can be very difficult on a woman's body whether or

not they're overweight or underweight or even at a regular weight,

it is still very hard

and

it can be something that

can really affect women and affect their body

in a way they don't want it to.

Another thing is a non viable pregnancy.

An ectopic pregnancy is when the egg implants within

the fallopian tube and the pregnancy continues to grow.

However, if that pregnancy is not terminated

then the pregnancy will grow and eventually burst the fallopian tube and

it is a possibility that the mother could bleed to death or

possibly be sterilized because of that.

So if they want to have Children

later in their lifetime, when they want to try again,

like topic pregnancy can take away from that ability.

The second is a miscarriage.

Unfortunately, a lot of women suffer miscarriages when the

pregnancy is no longer viable and

the body sees the fetus as a foreign body and wants to expel it out.

However,

it does not always mean that the fetus is completely

expelled out of the body a lot of times.

This means that it stays within the uterus and

if it is not expelled correctly or taken out,

the fetus can calcify and stay within the woman's body and cause other health

concerns.

So it is important that

a woman is to take the fetus

out of her body in order to ensure that she is able to have Children in the future.

The next is health concerns. This is most likely the late term abortions,

something that is still very polarizing and

uncomfortable topic. Most people would say

for the mother, she may consider an abortion if the fetus

could cause her incredible harm, whether or not that is sterilization or death

during the pregnancy or during the delivery

for the fetus. That is also

when um

the fetus cannot survive outside of the womb,

whether or not that is being stillborn or having a condition or underdeveloped

um organs so that they can no longer survive

outside of the mother's womb without the support.

Another reason why is age,

unfortunately, a lot of Children

face child assault and incest.

They're already too young to become a mother,

already too young to carry a pregnancy and their body cannot handle it.

However, child assault and incest are something that are very hard topics

and

would be detrimental to the child. If they were to carry on with the pregnancy.

Not only would it be detrimental to the child would be detrimental to the fetus

eventually coming out of the child.

Another thing is the lack of emotional maturity,

physical maturity and mental maturity

as Children

and teenagers,

a lot of times the sexual reproductive

health curriculum within schools or within our country

does not do its best job at helping

them understand the consequences or what can happen

with unprotected sex and because of that,

people are not always mature enough to understand the burden of getting

pregnant at that time and it is best to terminate the pregnancy

lastly, in cases of assault. Unfortunately,

women and men are raped very often. However, during this time, women can

become pregnant

from the assault and this can be within dating a person you don't know

or a friend.

Unfortunately, that happens with a lot of people and mentally,

emotionally and physically, it is draining to the mother.

It is hard to know that you are carrying your perpetrators child.

It's also a very manipulative way for the

perpetrator to remain in the mother's life.

Once the child is born,

the perpetrator has full claim to the child and being a parent.

So if it is something that someone does not want to be a part of,

it is best for the

pregnancy to be terminated.

It's also very difficult for the mother to see if they were to have the child.

That this is half of the person who took something away from them,

took their ability to say no away from them

and kind of violated them in that way.

Lastly, we will be talking about what planned parenthood does

in the role of abortions. They provide decision counseling

and two different types of abortion.

One of the great things about planned

parenthood is they provide very objective counseling

people when they come into an abortion. It's not a drop of the hat decision.

It's something that they have been thinking about for a very long time

and are trying their best to discern what is best for them.

And we give them objective

counseling to tell them,

you know what here's what could happen if you do have the child.

Here's what happens if you don't.

That We also answer commonly asked questions and give them statistics

and stories from other people who have had an abortion.

This table here

is representative

of when women do have abortions. We also give explanations into

what can happen during this time and what other people go through

as for the types of abortion. We provide

the pill or suction abortion and

we just choose whatever is best for the mother

whether that is what they're most comfortable with or

what stage in the pregnancy they're at we also provide

after care as in checking up on them afterwards,

coming in for appointments and making sure they're okay.

We also offer full privacy.

This is a private decision, a decision that only the mother can make

and one that we respect and one that we do not want to spread

throughout.

So

thank you so much for listening about

abortions and all that they encompass today. We learned about what an abortion is

the history of it, why someone may have won and what we as planned parenthood do.

Thank you and we hope that you are able to take this information and critically

think about it to make your own decisions

and have very great discussions with people,

you know.

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