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Abortion Rights |
When a woman gets pregnant, she has the right to choose whether or not she wants to keep the baby. Though many women do choose to carry their growing baby, there is a certain number who do choose to have an abortion. The rights of a mother and her fetus is a hotly debated subject among people from religious groups to politicians.
Whatever the reasons may be that a woman chooses to have an abortion, it is a horrid process that can cause pain to the fetus. Some people believe that a fetus does not have the ability to feel pain, and therefore it cannot be considered a human being. The reason that it is very difficult to tell whether a fetus can feel pain is that too many physicians are too set in their beliefs that they make their conclusions based upon their stance as pro-life or pro-choice. This can be deceiving to the mothers because many are concerned with the pain that the fetus can feel, if any. The pro-life people believe that at 26 weeks of pregnancy, a fetus is able to feel the pain an abortion causes, whereas the pro-choice people believe that since a fetus isn’t yet a human being, it cannot feel pain.
There have been some acts that people have tried to have passed which concern the well being of a fetus. Some people want the fetus to be given an anesthetic before the abortion, so that they can’t feel the pain, but it was difficult to have that passed because it is a debatable subject of whether a fetus can feel pain.
There are many different abortion procedures, all of them are horrid. One way is through suction. The abortionist inserts a hollow tube that is connected to a pump. The tube has a sharp point which the doctor then inserts into he uterus. The suction tears the fetus into pieces. Another way is the dilatation and evacuation. This is a procedure in which the abortionist uses a plier-like tool and tears the fetus’s body apart. The spine is snapped and the skull is crushed. For women who are advanced in their pregnancy, there is a procedure that pulls the baby out partly and then the abortionist uses scissors to make a hole in the nape of the neck. The abortionist then opens the scissors to make the hole wider and the fetus is dead. Just imagine that all of these procedures are done without anesthetic.
Abortion didn’t become legal until 1973. Before that, many women had to get abortions in unsanitary places by untrained people. These were dangerous conditions and the state finally realized that. The Supreme Court made abortion legal after they found that the 14th amendment protected the privacy in family matters which did include the right a woman has to abort her baby.
Only 1% of abortions are performed on pregnancies caused by rape or incest. 1% more is due to the fact that the fetus has abnormalities. 3% is due to the fact that the mother has health problems of her own. The rest, 95%, are done mostly because the woman was too irresponsible to be able to accept the consequences of having sex.
Currently, it has actually become dangerous to go to an abortion clinic because they have been burned down and bombed. There are many people who are so set in their ways that they think that women don’t have the right to choose. In fact, California has reported 30 anti-abortion clinic bombings and arsons within the last couple of decades.
There are now many other possibilities a woman has if she doesn’t want to keep her baby. She can give her baby the gift of life and then give it up for adoption. If she doesn’t want to go through the process of adoption, she is able to deliver the baby and then leave it at the hospital, no questions asked. These different options were created so that the women wouldn’t have to abort or KILL their babies.