Abortion has been one of the most highly debated and controversial topics in American culture and politics. One of the reasons it is such a sensitive topic is because everyone can relate to it in one way or another. Abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of a pregnancy. The arguments for this surround the idea of whether the induced removal of the fetus is murder or rather in the best interest of the mother. I am personally in favor of abortion under certain circumstances and don’t think that the government has the right to ban it and interfere with such delicate family matters.
There are two stands on this controversy: Pro-choice and Pro-life activists. To briefly summarize it, Pro-life believers debate that all life in the instant of its conception is innocent and deserves a chance at life. Through a religious standpoint, they also argue that God chooses the time of life and death, not the mother. Pro-choice followers often argue in favor of science and the United States Constitutional Ninth Amendment, which holds freedom of choice sacred. The first priority is the mother, for she is the one who allows for the pregnancy to happen or not.
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Pro-lifers also feel that young women who become pregnant have been irresponsible and need to pay for their poor choices. In many cases it is not their fault that there are pregnant and carrying out the term could only lead to trouble for the mother and the unwanted child. Antiabortion believers think it is wrong to kill a fetus because it is a living soul, and that decision should be left up to the woman carrying the child, not the government. Not only in order to maintain this country’s basic principles on personal freedoms, but to protect its society it is important to keep the right to have an abortion in