There are many issues in America today
such as violence, drugs, teenage pregnancy that is on a rise. There is also
abortion which is what I chose to write about today due to the fact that it has
been such a controversial and important issue of my generation although it has
been an ongoing issue for centuries going back to 2600 B.C when the first
recipe for an abortion producing
drug. Since the 19th century English common law forbade abortion. Abortion
prior to quickening (feeling life) was a misdemeanor and a felony after that.
In the early 1800s it was discovered that human life did not begin when she
“felt life” but at fertilization. In 1869 the British Parliament passed
the “Offenses against the Persons Act” Eliminating the bifid punishment and
dropping the felony punishment back to fertilization, so across the middle
years of the 19th century each state passed their own laws against abortion. In
1967 the first two states to legalize abortion was Colorado and California and
by June 1970 New York passed the first abortion on demand law with a 24 week
limit it became the 16th state to allow abortion while the other states were
still very restrictive and only allowing abortions for pregnancies due to rape,
incest, life of the mother or severe fetal handicap.
Abortion
seems to be the importance of my generation because there are so many young
girls getting pregnant and trying to take the easy way out by
having an abortion but little do they know that, that coward way out is
sometimes more painful and more risky then actually giving birth and that
complications rates of abortion increase with younger teenage women, younger
women who carry their baby to term have better births then older women if they
get proper care. I don’t believe these girls/women are fully aware of the
dangers this can impose on their mind, body, and spirit. Statistics show that
one in four of our generation is not living because they were killed before
they were born.
There are
two fractions in this controversy that are apart in their views on abortion
whereas the pro-choice movement contends that a women’s right to abortion is
absolute, the pro-life choice asserts that a fetus’s right to life is
indisputable. Because of this debate the 1973 U.S Supreme Court ruling in Roe
VS Wade which legalized abortion based on the 14th amendments right to
privacy.
Most
Americans believe that abortions should be illegal with exceptions of rape and
incest but the truth is most abortions are not for either of these two reasons,
most abortions are done because of various of other reasons such as the mother
being too young and having sex without any knowledge of what they’re doing,
because the father doesn’t want to be a part of her life or the baby’s, or
sometimes just because the women/girl doesn’t feel like they can handle it when
I believe that god never puts too much on a person he feels like that they
can’t handle it. There were other exceptions that were included in the bans on
partial birth abortion that was proposed by congress.
Abortions
have affected many different people in various ways everyone knows someone that
has had an abortion rather you know it or not. One in every six women has had
an abortion and it has had different affects on them many women that have had
abortions have had major psychological problems such as depression and sometimes
called post-abortion syndrome that comes after an abortion, bladder injury that
can lead to peritonitis which is an inflamed infected lining of the abdomen,
bowel injury. Breast cancer women who have aborted have higher rates of breast
cancer later in life and have increased by 50% since abortions have been
legalized, Ectopic (tubal) pregnancy which is a pregnancy that occurs outside
the uterus. After an abortion you are 8-20 times more likely to have one of
these, Effects on future pregnancies like bleeding in the first three months,
less likely to have a normal delivery, your next baby will be 3-4 times more
likely to die in the first few months of life.
As I stated
before abortions go back to ancient times and have been practiced by women all
over the world using barbaric tools and odd instruments. This is why I believe
that it’s a women’s choice to be able to have an abortion under certain
guidelines but not because they had a one night stand and didn’t like the guy
or just because you think you’re not ready, or because you think you’re parents
might kill you, or my figure is going to be ruined if I have this baby. Many
women have died t trying to self abort in ancient times and even a few today
but it’s now less common because it was legalized in 1973 some people say that
you can’t be on both sides its either pro life or pro choice. I can’t really
decide because in a way I feel like it’s a women’s choice if she wants to
suffer through an abortion but I would never get one!!
So what
should our government do about this issue?? I believe that the government
should keep abortions legal with stipulations on them, along with educating the
mothers about the complications that come along with having this procedure.
Also start allowing the schools to have sex education classes to help them
understand how and when sex is appropriate and if they are already sexually
active how to use protection and birth control. A lot of people say it’s the
parent’s job to educate their kids about sex but as the old saying goes it
takes a village to raise a kid so why shouldn’t the schools be a part of the
village?? The government should make it lawful to have an abortion ONLY if there’s a health
risk to the mother or the baby, incest victims, and certain aged rape victims
which is very rare case that a woman raped has become pregnant. I say certain
aged rape victims only because a 9-12 year old girl that has been raped
shouldn’t have to endure all that pain at such a young age not knowing how or
what this is happening to her. So just to leave you with a few things to think
about here are some quotes from the bible: “Ye that loves the LORD, HATE evil…”
Psalms 97:10, “Thou shall not kill.” Exodus 20:13, “As thou knowest not what the
way of the spirit is, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with
child: Even so thou knowest not the works of GOD who maketh all.” Ecclesiastes
11:5
TO the
government, parents, teachers, and counselors educate our young people about
using birth control and condoms. If she’s already pregnant please, please let
them know about the alternatives to abortion like adoption anything to save a
life there are plenty of loving families that can’t have kids that want them. If
you think birth control and condoms are too costly their not you can get them
free all day long at the local clinics and that’s why we have Planned
Parenthood and other places like it that helps with this sort of thing. Most
people just don’t know so they need to be educated and this is where the
government comes in and this is why one out every four have been killed and
abortion will continue to be such a controversial issue.
The Obvious escapes many; will you let it
escape you?
Capt.
Obvious
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