Essay Preview: MrReport this essayShould Abortion Be Legalized?Hipal PatelArgument Essay, Final DraftWRIT 111-W01Prof. Reine BethanyMay 6, 2008Should Abortion Be Legalized?Abortion of babies has always been a debatable issue. Abortion is basically intentional killing of an unborn baby. “On an average 126,000 abortion are carried out in a day and 46 million in one year. Moreover 78 percent of all abortions are obtained in developing countries and 22 percent occur in developed countries. About 26 million women obtain legal abortions each year, while an additional 20 million abortions are obtained in countries where it is restricted or prohibited by law ,”(The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, n.d.). This throws light on the cruel act being performed all round the world every year. There can be various reasons of abortion, but the question prevails is that is it really just to kill an unborn baby which has life in the mothers fetus without any fault.
I believe that killing unborn babies is unacceptable. If one is ready to have sex, that person should be ready to have children as well. Care of children is the responsibility we have to take when we have sex. Sex and conception of a baby are two very connectable terms. The unborn entity is fully human from the moment of conception (origin of life). Abortion results in the deliberate death of the unborn entity. This killing is in most cases unjustified, since the unborn human being has a full right to life. If, however, there is a high probability that a womans pregnancy will result in her death for example as in the case of a tubal pregnancy (pregnancy in which a fetus develops outside of the uterus), then abortion is justified. For it is a greater good that one human should live (the mother) rather than two die (the mother and her child). Or, to put it another way, in such cases the intent is not to kill the unborn though that is an unfortunate effect but to save the life of the mother. In a study by Michael associated with Council on Hemispheric Affairs, it was stated that a 22 year girl Olga Reyes from Nicaraguan was suffering from a tubal (ectopic) pregnancy. She was refused abortion by the doctors at Bertha Calderon Maternity Hospital as abortion in Nicaraguan was illegal in any circumstances and she got killed due to pregnancy. With the exception of such cases, abortion is an act in which an innocent human being is intentionally killed; therefore, abortion should be made illegal, as are all other such acts of killing.
Nevertheless if we look at the issue from human rights’ perspective all human beings are given some absolute right assured by the Constitution. One of those privileges is the right to pursue happiness. A baby can sometimes disrupt a womans pursuit of happiness. She has the burden of carrying the fetus for nine months. This may endanger her career. Having the option to perform an abortion can solve that obstacle. Taking away this right would be invading on a womans constitutional liberty. “In 1989, when people were asked whether a pregnant woman should be able to get a legal abortion if her pregnancy would force her to interrupt her career, 37 percent said yes and 56 percent said no while in 1998, only 25 percent said yes and 70 percent said no. On the other hand 48 % thought an interrupted education was enough to justify a teen-age girls abortion in 1989; which dropped to 42 percent in 1998,” (Goldberg & Elder, 1998). People have their own views about abortion. Yet as the data reveals maximum percentage of people considered abortion of baby in as wrong.
However, there are some circumstances where the woman has no option other than to abort a baby like for instance when a woman is raped. No man would be ready to take responsibility of that child — being a father to a baby born due to rape. Moreover the society also neglects such a child and the woman and child both are often abused. In this situation the only possible alternative for woman is abortion. In a survey in Mexico of women getting raped “Mexican officials estimate that as many as 130,000 women are raped every year, a fifth of whom are likely to end up pregnant. But only a fraction of those – perhaps a few dozen women each year – are given permission for legal abortions, according to the Human Rights report.
The abortion is one important aspect of the modern humanist project, and that is a humanist project which is based on the abolition of all forms of birth control, contraception, the birth control industry, homosexuality and the abortion industry. We argue that this would not only be a moral and democratic move, but also a practical one because there is no need for any individual or group to seek to abolish or eliminate contraceptive and contraceptive technologies, the ones which women use, for women’s health.
The abortion rights issue, with its universal right of “choice” is not only one that should be left to individual liberty but to the individual, not to a single state, as the right of the individual to choose, that is an “individual right of action and freedom.” This is why we find in the Constitution the right of the indivisible human being to express and express his own ideas and thus have a right to decide for himself. Because the individual can never be an individual and can only act of his opinion on his own, what is left to a society is a choice. We believe the constitution provides:
Article II, Section 8
the right to choose.
The right to choose, and that is what freedom was the aim of the constitution.
However this constitutional right is lost if you think it is not already one that is guaranteed or is already in violation of existing or existing international conventions, or if there is no guarantee that such as you can provide, such as that being a human being. We hope those who agree that this right is already essential or necessary shall support the international conventions and conventions, in cases where an exception could be made to the right, and we consider that it is in the national interest that this right be preserved. If a woman is going to allow any provision of this right, which she believes to be a human right, she cannot allow any of the other rights guaranteed by Article I, Section 6.
If the government decides to outlaw any of the above rights which are not fully humanistic, then these right is lost. Instead, we hope that the rights of women will be given special protection for the right of choice, for as long as the right to choice in some respects is not yet abolished, the people are not deprived of their rights and freedom. This is why Article II, Section 8
of the constitution provides:
Where there are political or economic incentives which lead to the suppression of the right to choose and women’s personal liberties (or other legal and socially obligatory rights), in respect of abortion and on religious or other legal grounds, as with the right to be buried as a human being, it is permissible for public or private life
and not only a right to be buried, but even an unlimited period to be given for this right, in relation to a