Should There Be Limitations on Abortion?
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Should there be limitations on abortion?
I do not believe there should be limitations on abortions. In my personally beliefs the government should not tell a woman what she can and can not do with their bodies. If a female decides to have a baby the choice whether to keep it or not should be up to her and her alone. Who is the government to tell a female she can not have an abortion, or put restrictions on having abortions? What is next are they going to limit the amount of children a female can have like they do in China? Why stop at females what kind of laws they going to be put against men. With the Patriotic law and our government spying on us is that not enough why tell females about abortions. Did the Women’s movement of the 1970s mean nothing at all if men still are going to tell females what to do? I wonder what is next are they going to turn over the 19th Amendment that allows women to vote. The government has entirely to much power over our lives. The Supreme Court decision in Roe V. Wade made it possible for a woman to have an abortion. Prior to the decision many women were dying performing illegal abortions all because they could not have a legal one. Studies show that prior to Roe V. Wade they were many unwanted pregnancies in America. According to The New York Daily News article entitled “Do People agree with Abortion” a staggering 89% of people agree that the government should not put limits on abortions. Another poll shows that 1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child. According to the website The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform many women have abortions for life or death purposes. The government wants the citizens to believe they have abortions because it is legal and the women take advantage of that.
There are many facts, and data that argue women should have abortion no matter on what the circumstances are. According to Center for Bio-Ethical Reform an estimated 43% of all women will have at least 1 abortion by the time they are 45 years old. 47% of all abortions are performed on women who have had at least one previous abortion. That proves there are not many women who have abortions no matter what the government wants us to believe. Not even have of women who have an abortion go back a second time to have another. Usually women learn from their previous experience and are more careful the second time around. The other 47% of women who goes back to have another abortion properly went through with the procedure for medical reasons. The government is not taking into consideration that women also have abortions for medical reasons not because it is available. In a 7-to-2 decision, the justices in Roe v. Wade ensured that abortion would be legal in all 50 states. Still, getting an abortion in some states is difficult. Local laws, culture and politics create widely varying experiences for women seeking to end their pregnancies. That ruling and subsequent decisions prevent states from outlawing abortion except for late in pregnancy when a fetus can live outside of the womb, and then only if the mother’s physical or mental health will not be adversely affected. Many states make it extremely hard for women to have an abortion which is not right. States like Oklahoma and Washington women need to go through a lot to actually have an abortion. In South Dakota, for example, a woman may have to travel as far as 400 miles to the one abortion clinic in the state, which is picketed daily and run by a doctor who travels from Minnesota. South Dakota doctors refuse to perform the procedure because they say all other patients would boycott them in the lightly populated, conservative state. In Massachusetts and Rhode Island, an underage woman seeking an abortion must get her parents’ permission. In both Texas and Mississippi, a woman must undergo counseling, wait 24 hours, and if she’s a minor, get her parents’ consent before receiving an abortion. But because of differing state rules for abortion providers, a majority of women in Texas have local access to an abortion clinic, while women in Mississippi have only one clinic, which the state has threatened to shut down. Doctors in states where they are not extreme bans on abortion like New York people who are against abortions are mean people. The people against abortion should mind their own business it is not up to them to say nothing about no one else. George Bush is not a good president so why should people care what he says when the economy is so messed up. He needs to worry about the war in Iraq and the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries. Most people in the Untied States agrees that there should be no limits on abortion according to The New York Post article entitled “ What is The Big Deal over Abortion”, so who am I to disagree with most of