I think the decision of abortion should be solely given to individual who is pregnant. I do not think their should be a law that hinders people to having an abortion. Certain situations and lack of attention make abortions necessary. I am not an advocate for killing innocent people and certainly not condoning the killing of babies. However, I do not believe that government has any right to take that option away from the woman who may need to get one. For this blog assignment, I started to look further into way people opted for an abortion. I found that the reasons varied from personal to even financial. Some of the reasons included; financial instability, teen pregnancies, school, health risk, and rap victims. After hearing some of these factors, I became more supportive of abortion. Say my sister who is 38 were to get pregnant and the doctors said she was not healthy enough to have this child. That in some time during her pregnancy she may die. To me her life is certainly more important that an unborn baby who I have never met. I am not saying she would have decided to terminate the pregnancy but should definitely have that alternative option.
I have always been very interested in the legal profession. Here is a website that shows different court cases of different abortion cases. http://www.abortionfacts.com/court_cases/court_cases.asp
i think your right the government should not choose something for you since it could harm or even kill you.
ReplyDeleteFrom my perspective of the male side there are some exceptions to certain situations on preforming abortions. I will totally agree there are some instances where abortion is necessary, if it's because of a rape situation or when it puts the mothers health at risk. Now with modern medicine, I think you ought to establish a fine line with "at risk" and "potentially fatal". Since in all reality, all women have the potential to die after giving birth for various reasons, so you need to establish if that situation arises, if you feel this way, that it should only be done if it's truly fatal and not just 'somewhat harmful'. On the flip side, the few completely inexcusable reasons for an abortion is because 'you just don't want a baby right now' or monetary strains. As usual this is a really sticky topic and you have to pick and choose your wording carefully.
ReplyDeleteThe Abortion issue is alaays a tough issue because the sides have become so entrenched over the years. The best way to think through it might have to do wiht how the differing sides are speaking about issues that don't mix--on the one hand sometime religious inspired morality, on the other legal rights of individuals. The Roe v. Wade decsion rests on Article 9 and Article 14 establishing a right to privacy via the understanding of one's own body as their own property. The question that could inspire ina interesting discussion oabout the issue is: What has changed historically about human beings in the US that this intepretation should not apply to actual living human beings anymore, however be attached to potential living human beings? That's the abotion paper I'd like to read.
ReplyDeleteAbortion is more of a moral debate. The reasons for not having an abortion are usually centered around religion and not taking a life. In the United States abortion is only legal with in the first trimester of pregnancy. Whether or not this is humane is a hard topic to argue. Even with scientific evidence people think the baby is alive and has feeling. It's similar to evolution, those religious people just can't accept the idea.
ReplyDeleteThe government is supposed be separate from the church, but unfortunately it's not always.