Abortion - Mother's Choise
Essay by Nicolas • January 31, 2012 • Essay • 726 Words (3 Pages) • 1,895 Views
Abortion is one of the biggest debates in America. Some people argues that a baby in it's earliest
forms of life has the same rights as a person and some people believe that abortion is a choice and that
a woman has the rights to choose what she does with her body. While the fight about abortion still goes
on, abortion should be legalized because it is the mother's choice whether she wants to carry out with
the baby and not anyone else judgment opinion.
Abortion has been going on for a very long time. Woman have been wanting to control the
amount of offspring they conceive. Abortion has three different perspectives. Those who oppose it call
themselves "pro-life" and suggests that anyone in favor of abortion is considered "anti-life". Those who
supports the rights to have an abortion call themselves "pro-choice"(Taking Sides). The pro-life argues
that "life begins at conception, when a sperm fertilizes an egg cell. Fertilization, for pro-lifers, the
embryo is fully human... They see abortions as the killing of an unborn child and a denial of the basic
rights to life" they see that the baby has as much rights as anyone else even as a fetus. but the others
argues that the rights "belongs only to the individual not to parts of the individual". The fetus is not
completely a living person yet. It shouldn't be considered a person. It's just residing there and it
wouldn't be considered killing unless it was out and actually alive (Abortion 5). Abortion is not a form
of genocide. Let's say that a woman gets raped. Does she have the rights to let go of the baby without
pro-lifers calling her a "killer"? Even though that usually isn't the case, if a mother even had the
slightest thought of getting an abortion then she should definitely not carry out with it.
Teen pregnancy is getting more and more popular in the United States "Teen pregnancy among
teenagers and young women in the United States rose" (Discussion). Many of them decided to keep it
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and many decide to give it up for adoption or consider the choice of abortion. Usually teenage
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