Is Abortion Really A Choice

Is abortion really a choice? This is a free country, so why must women with rights be subjected to judgment about their own bodies? Is it fair for us to be criticizing someone when we know nothing about how it feels to be in their situation? The decision to have an abortion should be supported without criticism or judgment. Women should feel accepted, no matter their choice; there are many reasons why women choose to abort. These reasons, among others, include health implications, moral issues, and a woman’s freedoms and rights. Birth is no easy feat. There are several medical complications that go hand in hand with it. According to Wikipedia, “Childbirth is an inherently dangerous and risky activity, subject to many complications.” (Wikimedia
There is a famous Canadian case regarding a woman’s right to abort, called the R vs. Morgentaler case. In the 1980s, Dr. Henry Morgentaler, Dr. Leslie Frank Smoling and Dr. Robert Scott founded an abortion clinic in Toronto that provided abortions to women who had not been approved by the Therapeutic Abortion Committee, as required by law. These three doctors argued that a woman should have complete control over whether she wants to have an abortion or not. At this time, abortion was a part of Canada’s criminal legislation. However, this was overturned by logic and reasoning from the doctors, public, lawyers, and jurists. Bertha Wilson, a jurist involved in the case, stated: “The decision whether to terminate a pregnancy is essentially a moral decision, a matter of conscience. The question is: whose conscience? Is the conscience of the woman to be paramount or the conscience of the state? I believe, for the reasons I gave in discussing the right to liberty, that in a free and democratic society it must be the conscience of the individual.” (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 2012) By the end of the trial, the Court had dropped the charges against the doctors and removed many restrictions surrounding abortion. The Court itself even stated: "The right to liberty... guarantees a degree of personal autonomy over important decisions intimately affecting his or her private life... The decision whether or not to terminate a pregnancy
Some women may choose to abort because of problems with their own health; others may choose to do so because of moral issues. However, no matter what the reason, it is the woman’s choice and hers alone. Let’s make the world a better place, and not ostracize and isolate women for whatever they choose to do with their lives. Women need to be able to feel happy in society like anyone else, so it’s up to us to support women in their