Abortion - the Existing Baby That Never Breathed

Ebonique Fair

Professor Frisinger

ENC1101-02

March 24,2018

 The Existing Baby that never breathed 

Choices, what is the true definition of the word choices? Choice is the right, power, or opportunity to choose. Everybody in society has a to make a choice in their daily lives and these choices have good outcomes and bad outcomes. Therefore, a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion or not, is her primary rights. If society bands abortion, this can cause an interfering with the woman’s right to make decisions related to her own body. 

Abortions are an ongoing topic, and everyone has a different opinion. As defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word abortion is, “ the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus as a spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of  gestation- miscarriage, the induced expulsion of a human fetus, or the expulsion by a domestic animal often due to infection at any time before completion of pregnancy. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abortion 

The topic on abortion will always be opinionated. So, this has emerged two types of groups pro-life and pro-choice.  According to ProCon.org, pro-life people sees human life begins at fertilization therefore abortion is considered as killing an innocent human being. However, pro-choice sees abortion has a women’s right that shouldn’t be limited by government or religious authority allowing a woman to abort a growing fetus. Pro-choice and Pro-life advocated will always have different views concerning the life of a human being and the mental affects abortions have on the mother. https://abortion.procon.org/ 

To understand this topic thoroughly the history of abortions and other techniques to terminate an pregnancy began during the 1550 BC where these eras used several types techniques such as, weight lifting, pouring hot water onto the abdomen, and lying on a heated coconut shell and fasting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_abortion#cite_note-potts-4  yet, in the 1800’s illegal surgical abortion was being performed by people with little to no education, medication was unknown, and hospitals were not common, so it made this procedure risky. Abortions remained illegal for several years despite of the lack of knowledge people had who was doing this procedure. https://prochoice.org/education-and-advocacy/about-abortion/history-of-abortion/. Organizations started to feel abortion were wrong and dangerous given by people who were not experience. Therefore, The National Abortion Federation made abortions into a “Physicians-only” practice because the procedure could be performed legally to save a women’s life. However, 1973 Roe V Wade who was a part of the U.S. Supreme Court decided that it was a woman right to have an abortion and is their privacy. Such as, Norma McCovey who was an unmarried pregnant woman from Texas who asked for an abortion, but was denied she filed a federal lawsuit declaring their decision was unconstitutional. Roe V Wade argued that the law violated her rights as a woman.7-2 vote, agreed with Mr. Roe but, different states still can ensure the safety of a pregnant woman and the fetus if needed.

The Supreme Court, acknowledged that a potential human life will be protected by dividing a pregnancy into three 12-weeks trimesters. During the first trimester a woman has the right to have a surgical procedure to abort a fetus which must be performed by a licensed physician in a medical clinic or a medication abortion which consist of two medication Mifepristone which blocks a woman’s progesterone and Misoprostol taken 6-48 hours after the first pill causing the uterus to empty. The second trimesters, a state may provide an abortion that’s due to a serious health problem with the mother or the fetus. Third trimester, a state is only concerned about the human life and this outweighs the mother’s rights allowing the state to deny an abortion. https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/abortion/the-abortion-pill

http://healthcare.findlaw.com/patient-rights/how-did-abortion-become-legal.html

People’s opinions on when fetus life begins will always be an ongoing topic, whether they are for abortions or against abortions. Pro-life supports that abortions are wrong believing that the fetus has a heartbeat after 18 days after conception providing proof that the fetus is human. According to “National Right to Life” over 40 million unborn babies have been killed in the 40 years since it was legalized and now over 1.2 million are killed each year. Pro-life advocates concept is that if a child is born they grows and develops, they become intelligent, tall, curvy or whatever their genes consist of. The exact concept is for an egg that growing into a human inside a woman’s womb. Even though, the fetus doesn’t look like a baby it’s still human and should live. https://www.nrlc.org/abortion/wdlb/