Persuasive Letter Against Abortion

Dear Representative Love,

When doing research on your stance towards abortion rights, I found that you oppose a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion. As a woman who has it in my interest to protect my rights, I would like to encourage you to reconsider your stance. I myself have never had an abortion, nor do I believe I ever will have one in the future, but bodily autonomy is a basic human right. If we take away a woman’s right to her own body and force her to go through childbirth, what is to stop us from justifying taking away even more autonomy down the road, through things such as being forced to use contraceptives or, in an extreme scenario, sterilization? Taking away civil liberties like this can be psychologically damaging to the woman in question as well; especially if she did not even consent to the sex that lead to the pregnancy, in the
Teenagers who face unexpected motherhood are likely to drop out of school and rely on public health services (or not receive those health services at all). Bringing a child into a family that is not adequately prepared to support it would be a crime unto the child itself. Adoption is not always an option, either, and even if it were, there are not enough willing couples in our country who could afford to adopt and support the potential children who have otherwise been aborted.
History has shown that banning and illegalizing abortion does not stop abortions, it only leads to risky, back-alley methods that are never safe for the woman in question. The reason why abortions were legalized in the first place was to prioritize the health of the woman, and to ensure that she receive safe medical care from a licensed professional. A woman’s health or even life may be compromised by the fetus, and allowing an abortion to take place would be better than possibly losing both the mother and the