Abortion - Pro-choice is PC
Regardless of anyone's feelings about an embryos' or fetuses' rights or of women, sex and responsibility or of God, Karma or of the Bible, one cannot over look the fact that women have always used abortion to prevent child birth and always will. No matter what other think, women will turn to abortion as a last resort. If abortion is illegal, it is unsafe and dangerous therefore it must be kept legal and accessible to ensure the safety of the women. Making abortion illegal has little effect on the number of abortions performed and there is evidence from all over the world that shows this. In the 1930's there were thousands of criminal abortions in the United States and Canada. The number of births dropped by about half, as women refused to bring children into a depressed economy. These women resorted to dangerous illegal abortions to end their pregnancies. Due to this, about 2500 women died every year from abortion complications, making up for one in four maternal deaths. From 1950 to 1965 in the US alone, there were over 250 abortion related deaths reported each year. At the time illegal abortions were approximately two to three times more dangerous than a legal abortions and "...simple calculatio
One of the most debated subjects on abortion is whether an embryo is a human being or something less. Anti-abortionists argue that an embryo is a human and is entitled to the same rights as anyone else, including the women carry it. What they ignore is that allowing an embryo to use a women's body against her will would give it more right than she has, since a women does not have the right to demand the use of other people's bodies to save her own. Anti-abortionists also ignore thousands of years of cultural, religious, social and legal history, which has never held an embryo to be a person. Only abortion opponents have referred to an embryo as a person, and only to oppose abortion. Any law that defines an embryo as a person with equal right to, or greater than, that of a women's is illogical. "Subjugating women... to the needs of a tablespoon of insentient, unaware tissue is perverse. Equating a human being with a hollow ball of cells trivializes everything we value about humanity."(Sykes) A women is more than an embryo and therefore should have greater rights then an embryo or at least have the right to choose how her body is to be used. Sykes, Margaret. Pro-Choice Views. 2001. 28 Feb. 2001
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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