Sarah Maddington's Argument Against Abortion

The other day I got into an argument with a young gentleman on twitter about abortion. He tweeted “I can’t understand how anyone can be pro-abortion”. This tweet genuinely confused me because I was not sure that ‘pro-abortion’ is even a real term, so I replied to it, saying ‘Pro- choice not pro-abortion’ which he replied with ‘pro-choice is the same as pro-abortion’. I got angry with this because I cannot believe that some people truly believe that being pro-choice is translated into being ‘pro-abortion’. This is truly incorrect. In Sarah Maddington, the attorney for pro-choice in Roe v Wade case, opening statement she said, “We are not here to advocate abortion. We are here to advocate that the decision whether a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual.” This is the true definition of pro-choice, giving the women a choice over her body whether it is keeping or choosing to have an abortion, there is no pro-abortion. People who identify as pro-life do so out of protection for the unborn child. The child is the victim in this scenario and from conception a human being, so it is immoral to kill the child no matter what point of pregnancy it is in. Aborting the child would be considered murder in their eyes. People who are pro-choice believe that a mother should choose adoption over abortion to be adopted by a loving family. Abortion is also considered to be completely unsafe for the woman receiving it. An abortion could cause health problems later in that woman’s life. These are just some of the reasons that pro-life advocates are wanting abortion to be illegal. The main pro-life argument is that life is sacred and from the moment of conception the embryo is a human being. Killing the unborn child is murder, no matter what term the abortion is taken place because it is a human being. But until the child is born the zygote is fully dependent on the mother and her body. It would not be able to live on its own outside the mother and as being a part of her body she has the choice of what to do with the child. Many arguments against abortion say that the baby feels terrible pain during the procedure, which isn’t true. …show more content…
Most children are put into foster care homes that aren’t always the best. In 2014, according to the AFCARS Report, about 400,000 children were placed in foster care due to unfit parents or being unwanted. Out of those children 100,000 were waiting to be adopted but only 50,000 are successfully given homes. The rest of the children that were not adopted travel in and out of various foster homes. A CASA study done in 2013 showed that children in foster care had a 31.6% chance of getting into drugs or crimes. If abortion was made illegal these numbers would become greater. There would be more unwanted children and an upheaval rate of crime in cities in general. In 2005 a man named Steven Levitt wrote a book called Feakonomics, and a section in his book comments on the relation of legalized abortion and city crime. When Roe v Wade was passed there was a decrease in crime by 30% because by the 1980’s the unwanted children that would have been born to do all the crime were not