Abortion: An Argument in Favor Abortion is one of the most controversial topics of our day as it involves an entanglement of truly pressing issues that people generally feel incredibly passionate about: human life, religion, morality, and the rights of women. Historically, America has been a nation founded by and run by Caucasian men, which has meant that the bulk of legislation can be and has historically been harsh, unfair and unequal to women and minorities. Women (and minorities) have had to work harder and fight harder to receive rights that white men don't hesitate in giving themselves. For example, women have had to fight for the right to be reinstated to their jobs after maternity leave, for equal pay, and to fight against federal laws that have made it a crime to use contraceptives or birth control information (ACLU, 2012). Women have had to fight in certain states to teach in public schools if they were married and against laws which made it a crime for a white woman to have the child of a black man; the ACLU has also had to attack the exclusion of women from juries and other forms of discrimination against women (ACLU, 2012). The denial of equal rights and outright discrimination against women by men is nothing new. It is a fight that women have had to wager for decades upon decades. However, what makes the denial of abortion so unjust is that it represents the attempt of men to exert control over the bodies of women. Thesis: Abortion needs to be legal, accessible and affordable to all women. Any attempt by men to alter any of those factors represents an unconscionable injustice and is something which should be abolished...
If the shoe were on the other foot and if men were able to conceive and bear a child, and understand firsthand what it's like to raise a child by oneself after carrying it for nine months, they would most certainly have no problem making abortion legal, accessible to all and affordable. However, men generally lack the empathy it requires to make just laws; history is full of examples which demonstrate how men have no problem demoralizing women or minorities because it makes life more suitable for them, allowing them to exert a wider scope of control over others. For example, it's no coincidence that vasectomies have never been illegal in this country, as doing so would infringe on the rights of men to exert total and complete control over their bodies. If men want to remove the ability to conceive children from their bodies, then they make sure that such a desire can be made into a reality. While a pro-life supporter would argue that vasectomies don't "kill human life" the same principle is there: it kills the possibility of fostering human life. "If men could get pregnant, it is safe to assume that they would not women, or female-run institutions, telling them what they could or could not do with their own bodies" (Alessio, 2011). This is the bottom line for the inherent injustice of making abortion illegal, inaccessible or unaffordable -- it's a manifestation of the heinous injustice and lack of empathy for individual rights that American law has demonstrated for centuries.
Abortion Should Not Be Legal The ongoing debate on the issue of whether abortion should be a legal option still divides people of USA although it has been long since the Roe v Wade case wherein the legality of abortion was upheld in a U.S. Supreme Court decision. Supporters branding themselves as pro-choice argue that abortion is a personal right which should not be restricted by governmental or religious authority which
Abortion Is Every Woman's Right the issue of abortion remains controversial, with different class-oriented, cultural, religious and ethical factors playing important roles in the debate, as well as social factors, related to the role of the individual in society. This paper argues that, in the end, the decision over one's body (given normal circumstances, such as soundness of mind) remains that of the individual and not of anybody else involved, from
Abortion Nature intends that an offspring should begin and develop in the mother's baby until it is mature enough to be delivered and live on its own. Those nine months of gestation in the mother's womb pose a long-standing controversy, which pits the rights of the unborn child against the rights of the mother. One side, called pro-life, holds that the embryo or fetus has full and distinct rights to life
Abortion in Politics The argument on legality of abortion is nurtured deep into root of American society. The judgment on Roe v. Wade where abortion became legal to today's politics. This paper analyses in depth the issue surrounding this subject and present solutions and considerations. The struggle for sexual rights has been linked to the process of building citizenship and has been challenged mainly by entrenched conservative groups like Parents' groups, or
They argue that the fetus only has the potential of developing into a full-fledged human being; in the same way as an acorn has the potential of developing into an oak tree. In their view it is as ludicrous to call an embryo an independent human being as it would be to call an acorn an oak tree. (Lewis, 2000) Right of Woman Over Her Body The main "pro-choice" argument is
Abortion In the book Abortion is a Woman's Right! The authors Pat Grogan and Evelyn Reed write about why the subject of abortion is of such importance both in discussions of the rights of women but in the concept of Feminism and the place of women throughout society. Before the Roe v. Wade case made abortion lawful in this country, abortions were illegal in the United States. Anyone who desired or
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