FREE ESSAY ON ABORTION: FREEDOM OF CHOICE

ABORTION: FREEDOM OF CHOICE

Freedom Of Choice Peter Farmer
Period 6
Since 1973 abortion has been an important, controversial issue to the United States. The
problem should it be a woman's choice whether or not to terminate her pregnancy or should
it be the governments choice? This is where a woman looses her rights as a person. If
abortion is not remained legal women will start performing them illegally. One half of
all pregnancies in the United States end in abortion, 2,500 of these abortions will be
performed illegally. 
Although some oppose abortion for being used as a form of birth control, Abortion should
remain legal because it is a woman's choice and protects the privacy of an individual.
Some teenagers and woman abuse abortion as a form of birth control. Many women have used
legal abortions as a drastic form of contraception, due to carelessness or ignorance of
better methods. 
Abortion should remain legalized for the fact that if it's not kept legal many women will
perform illegal abortions. This is such as self-abortion methods, which are even more
dangerous; these included are lye, Lysol, iodine douches, as well as self-inserted
catheters, knitting needles and goose quills. This may do serious harm to the mother and
her body. Abortion is a woman's choice. Woman accepted the definition that a woman's
prime role was as wife and mother and control of ones own body. Once they had choices
about life roles, they came to feel they had the right to choose abortion to run their
own lives. 
Any woman should have the ability to choose when to have a child in their marital and
sexual freedom. Many woman feel if they didn't have the right to choose an abortion in
their life they would have passed by many opportunities to create a better life for
themselves. For men, or state or the physicians who hold control over whether pregnancy
should take place and the woman to suffer alone the consequences that the decision would
be best for their careers, education, or social status came to see wrong and cruelly
oppressive.