Should Abortion Be Legal

ld abortion be legal


Abortion Should Be An Option

Christine Ouimet

Informal Logic

Aaron Novinger

March 19, 2012

Abortion Should Be An Option
Thirty- nine years ago the Supreme Court ruled in Roe vs. Wade to legalize abortion. It is a women’s right to have an abortion if she wants to. A woman should never feel like they are a killer because of the choice of going with abortion. Way too many teenagers are getting pregnant; not allowing them to get an abortion is saying that they have to raise their child as a single mother or in poverty (Jacob, Weisberg). Children or woman that are raped or woman who can’t cope mentally or physically with a baby should not be forced to go through the whole pregnancy. It is not their life we are talking about there are children being brought into the world and having to live in poverty and suffer. Abortion as an option would help the children being born to teenage mothers, the women that are raped not have to live with the rape their whole lives and woman that can’t mentally handle having a child another option.
Part 1: Argument
Abortion should be an option for any woman if they are pregnant and feel they do not want to have the baby. They may choose abortion so they don’t have to go through all of the emotions of carrying the baby to full term and then giving it up for adoption. Teenage girls that get pregnant and are not allowed to have an abortion are being set up for failure in the future. How can a child take care of another child? Teenagers that have babies drastically diminish their chances of living the “American dream” (Jacob Weisberg). Most teenagers hardly ever get any support from the dad and tend to live their lives in poverty. The chances of them going to college and getting a good education are slim so they will probably end up on welfare or needing some kind of financial assistance. The children of teen moms may also suffer because they may not get the things that they need to live a healthy... [continues]

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