The topic today is abortions. Ending a pregnancy is something many women don’t talk about publicly. Abortion is a difficult decision. It poses many personal and ethical questions. When can a fetus be considered a human life? At conception? In the sixth month of pregnancy? At birth? Is abortion okay when a woman's health would be harmed by continuing the woman the pregnancy all the way to childbirth? What if the woman feels that she could not properly take care of the child? Is abortion justified when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest? These are the kinds of emotional questions that women and their families ask themselves when faced with an unwanted pregnancy. For millions of Americans, these very questions have fueled one of the
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Ending a pregnancy is something many women don’t talk about publicly. Abortion is a difficult decision. It poses many personal and ethical questions. When can a fetus be considered a human life? At conception? In the sixth month of pregnancy? At birth? Is abortion okay when a woman's health would be harmed by continuing the woman the pregnancy all the way to childbirth? What if the woman feels that she could not properly take care of the child? Is abortion justified when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest? These are the kinds of emotional questions that women and their families ask themselves when faced with an unwanted pregnancy. For millions of Americans, these very questions have fueled one of the most heated public debates in the nation’s recent history. Even though abortion is a very hard decision to make and it shouldn’t be taken lightly, some people fail to realize all the reasons as to why women do it in the first place. Over the past decades there has been many arguments on whether or not abortion should be legal. January 22, 1973 there was a case in the supreme court called “Roe vs. Wade” that legalized the right to have abortions. The 7-2 decision stated that the Constitution gives a “guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy”, and that “This right of privacy… is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.” That’s saying that they felt as if it’s a woman’s right on what to do with her body and that people need to give them privacy on their decision. Reproductive choice empowers women by giving them control over their own bodies. On a brisk sunday morning- April 5, 1992- more than 500,000 men and women marched on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Attending from all over the country, the crowd was “pro-choice”. Mostly women and mostly under forty, they sang songs and shouted slogans that under celebrated “reproductive freedom”. They chose that moment in time to
Ending a pregnancy is something many women don’t talk about publicly. Abortion is a difficult decision. It poses many personal and ethical questions. When can a fetus be considered a human life? At conception? In the sixth month of pregnancy? At birth? Is abortion okay when a woman's health would be harmed by continuing the woman the pregnancy all the way to childbirth? What if the woman feels that she could not properly take care of the child? Is abortion justified when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest? These are the kinds of emotional questions that women and their families ask themselves when faced with an unwanted pregnancy. For millions of Americans, these very questions have fueled one of the most heated public debates in the nation’s recent history. Even though abortion is a very hard decision to make and it shouldn’t be taken lightly, some people fail to realize all the reasons as to why women do it in the first place. Over the past decades there has been many arguments on whether or not abortion should be legal. January 22, 1973 there was a case in the supreme court called “Roe vs. Wade” that legalized the right to have abortions. The 7-2 decision stated that the Constitution gives a “guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy”, and that “This right of privacy… is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.” That’s saying that they felt as if it’s a woman’s right on what to do with her body and that people need to give them privacy on their decision. Reproductive choice empowers women by giving them control over their own bodies. On a brisk sunday morning- April 5, 1992- more than 500,000 men and women marched on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Attending from all over the country, the crowd was “pro-choice”. Mostly women and mostly under forty, they sang songs and shouted slogans that under celebrated “reproductive freedom”. They chose that moment in time to