Abortion is when you terminate a baby from the woman's uterus, and it usually takes place before 28 weeks of the pregnancy. However, in Iowa, abortion is only legal to take place before 6 weeks. There are many ways to get an abortion. For example, you can take abortion pills named Mifepristone that blocks a hormone called progesterone. Then, you would take a pill called Misoprostol that causes the uterus, that holds the baby, to empty as the fetus passes. It usually causes really bad bleeding and cramping, just like a heavier period.
During the late 1700s and the early 1800s, abortion was legal. Herbs and other medication were known as abortion inducing before the procedure of removing the fetus was common. Abortion was legal in mid the 1800s, but only till the "quickening" stage. The "quickening" stage is between 4-5 months and it's the point in the pregnacy when the mother can start to feel the baby move around. If any enslaved women were to get impregnated, the slave owners would forbid the women to get an abortion.
Jane Roe (Norma McCorvy) was denied an abortion while pregnant with her third child, because there were no medical issue that could harm Roe. At the time, she lived in Texas that had a law that you couldn't get an abortion unless it was medically needed. She was not okay with that so she fought for women's rights to abortion. While, Henry Wade, on the other hand, wanted to completly ban abortion all around the nation. Roe is pro choice, so she believes that the woman has the choice to abort the baby. Where as Wade is pro life, so he believe that the baby should not be aborted under most circumstances.
I am pro life because I consider abortion murder. But even if getting impregnated was an acident, it is still your baby and you chose to spread you legs. The only reason I would be pro choice would be if the woman was rapped or for any medical reasons that would harm or kill the mother. Otherwise, the mother should have the baby because there are other ways to not kill the baby and not be the legal gardian of the baby.
Should abortion be the woman's choice and why?
If the mother of the baby wants an abortion but the father doesn't, should the father have a choice?
Are you pro life or pro choice?
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I think that although women should consider the man's opinions, in the end it is the women's choice whether to have an abortion or not. If the father wants a baby that bad, he could possibly adopt or foster a baby that needs a home. But it is the woman's body that goes through the immense changes over the 9 months, not to mention that their body will never be the same after birth.
This is a very serious topic and finds a way to effecr society today. I can see in some senarios where choices can be difficult to make. I feel that if the mother wants an abortion and the father doesn't, then both parents should definetly have a say in the choice made. Although, I am pro life. I think that if someone is pregnant and they don't want the kid, than there are better ways to handle things other than killing off the baby. For example, adoption would be a great choice if a family or mother can't or doesn't want to take care of a baby.
There definitly are better ways to deal with haveing a baby that you don't want. There are even open adoptions for people who can't afford to take care of the baby.
This topic is very controversial, especially in society today. However, it is a very real and important issue that needs to be adressed more often. Obviously there are situations like rape, medical complications, etc., that may result in the need for an abortion. However, unplanned pregnancy shows irresponsibilty and immaturity. All in all, I believe that each abortion case should be taken one by one, situation to situation.
I don't think abortion should be leagal at all so no. If abortions were illegal then who wants to keep the baby and who doesn't wouldn't matter since you can't kill the baby anyways. I'm pro life. I think killing babies is wrong and very sad.
I feel like abortion should be a womans choice. Personally, I think if the mother got r*ped, then she should have the choice to keep the baby or not. Woman should not be forced to have a baby under those circumstances.
I agree that if the mother was raped then she should have the choice, but I don't agree that the mother shouldn't be forced to keep the baby because in the end it was her choice to get pregnant or risk getting pregnant when it's not rape.
I totally agree with your statement that abortion is murder, it is plain and simple. That baby was murdered by it's mother and never given the chance to live the life they could have had. I also think that is an interesting point asking the father, because although it is the mother's body is it just as much the father's baby. I am most definetly pro life.
I agree with you that it is also the father's baby. And if the father wants to baby then he should have the baby if the mother doesn't.
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