Abortion Is a Social Failure

Leanna Sullivan English 111 Christina Forsyth April 4, 2009 stillbirth Is a Social Failure spontaneous abortion is said to be a womans choice. Women do micturate the choice, the choice should be to do what is best for their child whether the pregnancy is computer programned or non. The resources should be made avail commensurate for the mother to do that. There should be more funding for populace services and health care for extremely starting time income families. Abortion is wrong and it harms the society that we live in. In 1973, the U. S. Supreme Court made abortion on demand the law of the land. With Roe v.Wade, the Court forced America to revoke the commitment to life, liberty and nicety for all. Abortion advocates guaranteed us that making abortion easy would mean either child a treasured child,(Mealey) which would reduce child abuse and it would reduce crime. Those unwanted children who often develop into criminals would never be born. This would decrease murder rates and criminal activity thus for, those unwanted children would never have the probability to act divulge and disrupt society. It would protect vulnerable women from being butchered by untrained abortionists cashing in on their desperation.Widespread abortion could further lead to stronger women, stronger families and a stronger society, they promised. (Mealey) With al or so 46 iodine thousand thousand unwanted children dispatch because of abortion since 1973 ruling, thither should have been a decrease in child abuse. That did not happen. In 2003, near 1 million children were victims of abuse and neglected, experts calculated approximately that three times that number was actually abused. more or less 1,500 children died of their injuries that year, gibe to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, which reports that all types of child abuse have increased since 1980. The plan to reduce crime by getting rid of the possible perpetrators just did not work bulge out the way they wanted it to. Children were murdered to decrease murder rates and criminal activity. Also, according to Yale University law professor John Lott and Australian economist John Whitley, states that legalized abortion noticed higher homicide rates almost every year between 1976 and 1998. They found that legalizing abortion increased state murder rates up to 7 percent. The plan to reduce crime by getting rid of possible perpetrators did not work either.Abortion foot be a public health issue. In countries where abortion is not legal, approximately, 20 million women have unsafe abortion each year. (Fisanick) If legal abortion is not available, women will danger their health to end an unplanned pregnancy. Abortion is legal because the rights of the mother surpass the rights of the fetus and the fetus shows no fool of brain activity until well into the second trimester. The United States has tried to defend the rights of the fetus, but no one can determine the boundaries . Every year 45 million pregnancies end in abortion.Almost fractional of those abortions are medically unsafe, and end in the deaths of nearly 70,000 women. (Fisanick) When death does not occur from unsafe abortion, women can have long-term disabilities, much(prenominal) as uterine perforation, chronic pelvic pain or pelvic inflammatory disease. Therefore, making abortion legal and available are public health issues. Criminalizing abortion does not save babies it kills mothers. () However, now it is safe with medical and surgical methods. Many countries have legalized abortion. According to the United Nations universe of discourse Fund, Where abortion is safe and legal, rates of abortion tend to be low.In contrast to the claim that thousands of women died because of outlaw(prenominal) abortion before the ruling of Roe v. Wade, the actually figure for the deaths reported was only 263 in 1950. In 1970 that total even dropped to 119 deaths of women due to abortion. Legalizing abor tion was supposed to eliminate the chance that a woman would be injure or killed during an abortion. Even though abortion is legal, it is still the fifth leading cause of big(predicate) women in the United States. (Mealey) In the Miami Herald, there was a story ran about a local abortion clinic.A woman died because of the conditions of the clinic. Another woman was mutilated. Abortion advocates knew about the clinics conditions but did not say anything because of policy-making reasons. Now, how in anyones right nous could they allow such horrendous acts to take place is beyond me. Just to keep the peace no one said anything. Abortions are legal to benefit the mother, so if the mother is dead or mutilated how did she receive any help. Needless to say, the most frequent gynecologic emergencies are problems preceding an abortion performed in a self-supporting clinic. (Mealey) Banning abortion as the backwash of denying women right to use a procedure that may be needed for their enj oyment of their right to health, according to the human rights act. Only women can experience the physiologic and emotional aspects of unwanted pregnancy. Some women suffer maternity-related injuries, such as hemorrhage or obstructed labor. Denying women access to medical services that enable them to regulate their fullness or terminate a dangerous pregnancy amounts to a refusal to provide health care that only women need. Women are consequently exposed to health risks not experienced by men.Laws that deny the availability to abortion, have the purpose of denying a womens capacity to ramp up responsible decisions about their bodies and their lives. Indeed, governments may find the potential consequences of allowing women to make such decisions threatening in some circumstances. Recognizing womens sexual and reproductive autonomy contradicts long-standing social norms that render women set about to men in their families and communities. It is not surprising that unwillingness to allow women to make their own decisions. Many Americans go through abortion as necessary to avert the back alley. In this sense, the notion of legal abortion as a necessary evil is based on a series of myths widely disseminated since the 1960s. These myths captured the public mind and have yet to be rebutted. One to two million illegal abortions occurred annually before legitimation. In fact, the annual total in the few years before abortion on demand was no more than tens of thousands and most likely fewer. Thousands of women died annually from abortions before legalization. As a leader in the legalization movement, Abortion law targeted women rather than abortionists before legalization.In fact, the nearly uniform policy of the states for nearly a century before 1973 was to treat the woman as the second victim of abortion. Legalized abortion has been good for women. In fact, women still die from legal abortion, and the general impact on health has had many negative consequences, including the physical and psychological toll that many women bear, the epidemic of sexually transmitted disease, the general coarsening of male-female relationships over the past 30 years, the threefold increase in the repeat-abortion rate, and the increase in hospitalizations from ectopic pregnancies.A generation of Americans educated by these myths sees little alternative to legalized abortion. It is commonly believed that prohibitions on abortion would not reduce abortion and only elevate thousands of women into the back alley where many would be killed or injured. Prohibitions would mean no fewer abortions and more women injured or killed. The better approach would be to make abortion less necessary. The first thing that ask to be done is to reduce the occurrence of unplanned pregnancy. Half of all pregnancies are unplanned and out of that half, half of them get abortions.If we showed dedication for getting out the information about abstinence and contraception and public fu nding for family planning services, I know more women would be willing to keep their babies. Women who are able to avoid unplanned pregnancy do not have to make the decision of whether to have an abortion. Unfortunately, there will always be some unplanned pregnancies. Therefore, once a woman finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy, another(prenominal) way to reduce abortion is to guarantee that she has the resources to have and raise a child.One of the two most common reasons women choose abortion is because they cannot manage to pay for another child. 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