Should Abortion Be Legal
Should Abortion be legal?
Melissa Caulum PHI103 Daniel Betela
June 18, 2012
Should Abortion be legal? The issue of abortion is very controversial in today's society. Although many people think it shouldn't be legalized, there are just as many who think it should. Your opinion rests with you and possibly the values you were brought up with. Whether you think women should have the right to abortion or not, you can find support for either side. Many years ago abortion was illegal and lots of women died because they tried to terminate their pregnancy themselves without professional help. In 1973 the Supreme Court passed a law that allowed women to have a choice of abortion. Abortion is the removal of a developing baby within in the mother womb by surgical procedures either by medical instruments or chemical ways, it has been estimated that before abortion became legal thousands upon thousands of women had illegal abortions and a lot of those women died. “By the 1870s, this position was making its way into popular health manuals and the press, most notably in an investigative series “The Evil of the Age” runs in the New York Times during 1870-71. The pieces portrayed leading abortionists as profiteers, growing rich through the exploitation of innocent and vulnerable women. The description of the body of a woman who died from a botched abortion – “ a new victim of man’s lust, and the life-destroying arts of those abortionist” (Ginsburg, 1998) When society tries to outlaw abortion women find different ways to terminate the pregnancies and therefore that causes illnesses, infections, septic, diseases, and even death. “How then can we take seriously some women's "need" of the "special right" of an abortion and yet avoid the abstract, ahistorical, individualistic connotations of liberal rights? While the critique of rights as formal, abstract, and divorced from context is valid, what I want to address is the dialectical
Melissa Caulum PHI103 Daniel Betela
June 18, 2012
Should Abortion be legal? The issue of abortion is very controversial in today's society. Although many people think it shouldn't be legalized, there are just as many who think it should. Your opinion rests with you and possibly the values you were brought up with. Whether you think women should have the right to abortion or not, you can find support for either side. Many years ago abortion was illegal and lots of women died because they tried to terminate their pregnancy themselves without professional help. In 1973 the Supreme Court passed a law that allowed women to have a choice of abortion. Abortion is the removal of a developing baby within in the mother womb by surgical procedures either by medical instruments or chemical ways, it has been estimated that before abortion became legal thousands upon thousands of women had illegal abortions and a lot of those women died. “By the 1870s, this position was making its way into popular health manuals and the press, most notably in an investigative series “The Evil of the Age” runs in the New York Times during 1870-71. The pieces portrayed leading abortionists as profiteers, growing rich through the exploitation of innocent and vulnerable women. The description of the body of a woman who died from a botched abortion – “ a new victim of man’s lust, and the life-destroying arts of those abortionist” (Ginsburg, 1998) When society tries to outlaw abortion women find different ways to terminate the pregnancies and therefore that causes illnesses, infections, septic, diseases, and even death. “How then can we take seriously some women's "need" of the "special right" of an abortion and yet avoid the abstract, ahistorical, individualistic connotations of liberal rights? While the critique of rights as formal, abstract, and divorced from context is valid, what I want to address is the dialectical