Birth Control Vs Abortion Research Paper
Birth Control versus Abortion
Melissa Frazier
Com/156
03/13/11
With the vast amount of methods of birth control that is available today, abortions to end an unwanted pregnancy should not be an option. Both men and women have a multitude of options for preventing an unwanted or unplanned pregnancy that they are not ready for financially, emotionally or for any reason that they may have. Abortions are available into the third trimester. However, the methods of removing the unborn child or fetus become crueler as the pregnancy progresses. Thus abortions border on moral and ethical boundaries for both women and men.
Both men and women play an active part concerning the right type of birth control contraceptive that can be used. Some have …show more content…
Each month, the experience of having the abortion worsens. In the first trimester, methotrexate and misoprostol or MTX, mifepristone and misoprostol, and suction aspiration are used. MTX and mifepristone and misoprostol are drug induced abortions whereas suction aspiration is a surgical method that literally vacuums out the developing fetus with a hollow tube that has a knife at the tip. This tip tears at the fetus and rips it into shreds and the vacuum sucks away the dead remains and discarded as waste. In the second trimester surgical procedures called dilation and evacuation, dilation and curettage, and induction abortion are performed. All are very cruel with no thought to what the growing fetus feels in mind. Dilation and curettage is often known as D&C is where they use a hook-shaped instrument, much like the suction aspiration to tear the child into pieces and the remains are scraped out. Dilation and evacuation is often referred to as D&E. This is where the doctor uses forceps to tear the developing child limb from limb, the spine is snapped and the skull is crushed. The dead baby is then removed from the womb and discarded like trash. Induction abortion is often called salt poisoning and is available in the second and third trimester. The doctor sticks a long needle into the womb and inserts a very strong salt solution into the …show more content…
Men may only have a few choices in this matter but women have many. From taking a small pill daily, to having her tubes cut or tied to prevent pregnancy, abortion of children that are not wanted are very easily preventable. Abortions not only cause unwanted pain to the child, but to the mother as well. Some of the pain is physical, some of it can be mental pain; that only comes after there is no turning back and the child is gone. Birth control can prevent an innocent child that did not ask for any of the pain that he or she may go through when they are aborted. It is also a very practical decision in a person’s life when the thought of not wanting children is
Melissa Frazier
Com/156
03/13/11
With the vast amount of methods of birth control that is available today, abortions to end an unwanted pregnancy should not be an option. Both men and women have a multitude of options for preventing an unwanted or unplanned pregnancy that they are not ready for financially, emotionally or for any reason that they may have. Abortions are available into the third trimester. However, the methods of removing the unborn child or fetus become crueler as the pregnancy progresses. Thus abortions border on moral and ethical boundaries for both women and men.
Both men and women play an active part concerning the right type of birth control contraceptive that can be used. Some have …show more content…
Each month, the experience of having the abortion worsens. In the first trimester, methotrexate and misoprostol or MTX, mifepristone and misoprostol, and suction aspiration are used. MTX and mifepristone and misoprostol are drug induced abortions whereas suction aspiration is a surgical method that literally vacuums out the developing fetus with a hollow tube that has a knife at the tip. This tip tears at the fetus and rips it into shreds and the vacuum sucks away the dead remains and discarded as waste. In the second trimester surgical procedures called dilation and evacuation, dilation and curettage, and induction abortion are performed. All are very cruel with no thought to what the growing fetus feels in mind. Dilation and curettage is often known as D&C is where they use a hook-shaped instrument, much like the suction aspiration to tear the child into pieces and the remains are scraped out. Dilation and evacuation is often referred to as D&E. This is where the doctor uses forceps to tear the developing child limb from limb, the spine is snapped and the skull is crushed. The dead baby is then removed from the womb and discarded like trash. Induction abortion is often called salt poisoning and is available in the second and third trimester. The doctor sticks a long needle into the womb and inserts a very strong salt solution into the …show more content…
Men may only have a few choices in this matter but women have many. From taking a small pill daily, to having her tubes cut or tied to prevent pregnancy, abortion of children that are not wanted are very easily preventable. Abortions not only cause unwanted pain to the child, but to the mother as well. Some of the pain is physical, some of it can be mental pain; that only comes after there is no turning back and the child is gone. Birth control can prevent an innocent child that did not ask for any of the pain that he or she may go through when they are aborted. It is also a very practical decision in a person’s life when the thought of not wanting children is