Evaluate Essay on Abortion
Kymberly Burress
Oct. 7, 2011
Pros and cons Essay
Ms. Shuchter
Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy at any stage that does not result in birth. What a lot of people don’t realize is a miscarriage is also considered an abortion even though it is not medically induced; it is called a spontaneous abortion because it is not a medical procedure. Recently a study was done and it showed that the number of abortions worldwide have gone down considerably because of family planning, having reasonable birth control methods introduced, the prices for them lowered and the availability of them are accessible by the younger generation. More and more we are seeing young women using abortion as a birth control method, this is making the process look like a non-viable medical procedure not to mention it is abusing the woman’s right to choose and making it extremely difficult for the women who have real reasons whether they be medical or unstated to receive safe and anonymous abortions, done by a medical professional. While there is still major controversy over the legality, ethics and women’s rights more than 90% of this world (not just the United States) has a pro-life or pro-choice opinion on the situation. While a lot of people don’t agree with the abortion procedure it has been practiced since the early times. Early Egyptians have hieroglyphs depicting a demon of sorts beating on the abdomen of a pregnant woman. Around 1150 B.C. China and the Roman Empire were logging the use of herb mixtures such as pennyroyal, sage and lavender to make a herbal abortion helper, also sharp implements were used for the process, though the practices are no longer in use at the time they caused many maternal deaths, organ punctures and caused severe internal bleeding. Abortion is very taboo in many of today’s cultures; the Islamic faith, Catholicism and North Africa have made a stand on the issue calling it immoral, evil, unjust and murder. Then on the opposite side of the
Oct. 7, 2011
Pros and cons Essay
Ms. Shuchter
Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy at any stage that does not result in birth. What a lot of people don’t realize is a miscarriage is also considered an abortion even though it is not medically induced; it is called a spontaneous abortion because it is not a medical procedure. Recently a study was done and it showed that the number of abortions worldwide have gone down considerably because of family planning, having reasonable birth control methods introduced, the prices for them lowered and the availability of them are accessible by the younger generation. More and more we are seeing young women using abortion as a birth control method, this is making the process look like a non-viable medical procedure not to mention it is abusing the woman’s right to choose and making it extremely difficult for the women who have real reasons whether they be medical or unstated to receive safe and anonymous abortions, done by a medical professional. While there is still major controversy over the legality, ethics and women’s rights more than 90% of this world (not just the United States) has a pro-life or pro-choice opinion on the situation. While a lot of people don’t agree with the abortion procedure it has been practiced since the early times. Early Egyptians have hieroglyphs depicting a demon of sorts beating on the abdomen of a pregnant woman. Around 1150 B.C. China and the Roman Empire were logging the use of herb mixtures such as pennyroyal, sage and lavender to make a herbal abortion helper, also sharp implements were used for the process, though the practices are no longer in use at the time they caused many maternal deaths, organ punctures and caused severe internal bleeding. Abortion is very taboo in many of today’s cultures; the Islamic faith, Catholicism and North Africa have made a stand on the issue calling it immoral, evil, unjust and murder. Then on the opposite side of the