Abortion And Women Essay, Research Paper

During the past century, abortion has joined race and war as

one of the most debatable subjects of controversy in the United States. The

issue of abortion causes discussions about human interactions where ethics,

emotions and law come together. There are many reasons why women decide to have

abortions. Some women have abortions because of health complications, some have

marital problems, and some lack responsibility. Whatever the reasons a woman

decides to have an abortion, it seems only justified that she should be able to

make decisions in regards to her life and body. The decisions that she makes in

regards to what she does with her body and the fetus will be beneficial to both

the woman and the fetus because it will prevent many problems from occurring in

the future. If a woman were to have an unwanted baby, she may neglect or even

abuse the child causing the child to go into the care of the government.

Bringing an unwanted child into the world is unfair to the innocent child and

the woman. The government has no valid reason in bringing an unwanted life into

the world. Bringing an unwanted child into the world is not helpful to the

parents, the child and the government, because if the parents cannot take care

of the child, eventually, the government will be responsible for the child. The

right to have an abortion is personal and essential to a woman?s life, because

having a baby in one?s life causes dramatic changes. Pregnancy and childbirth

can prevent women from keeping and getting jobs. When women are pregnant many

employers do not want to hire them because when the woman has a baby, the

company or employer must still pay her for the time that she is out of work by

law. Also, raising a baby and providing for all the needs that a child has is a

lot of money, which can create an insufficient income for many women. Another

factor that imposes on women when they have children is the amount of time they

have for themselves and others beyond the baby. Women feel that it prevents them

from providing services for others and time for themselves. Sometimes after a

pregnancy and childbirth, many women have to give up their dreams on starting in

school or end up dropping out because they do not have the time for it. They

have to give up on something that will significantly influence her family and

her future. Pregnancy has a great impact on the woman?s future and her future

relationship with her family. In many cases of unwanted pregnancies, the women

are not married. These women inmost cases cannot go home and announce that they

are pregnant and be proud of it. Their pregnancy would be am embarrassment and

disgrace to the family. Some families would suggest to the pregnant woman about

disowning her, throwing her out of the house, and cutting off family

communications and wealth. Many of these women cannot deal with loosing their

family and the new lifestyle that they have to face. So in order to prevent

losing their family and leading a tough life, they look into the option of

abortion. Women should have the choice of deciding what would be best for their

future, whether or not they are ready to change their lifestyle and decide the

relationship between themselves and their family. A woman is equal to a man. But

during a pregnancy, when the woman does not have the choice to abort the fetus

growing inside of her, she is not his equal. A man can simply withdraw from a

relationship as soon as he finds out about a pregnancy. He has the choice of

staying and supporting the pregnant woman, or the choice of leaving her and the

development of a new life. He can simply say a sentence or pick up his bags and

leave while a whole new life is growing inside of her, a life that she cannot

get rid of unless she has professional help. Without the choice of abortion, a

woman does not have the same choices that a man would have. With the right to

have an abortion, women like men have the right to fully use the powers of their

minds and bodies just like a man. A woman?s body is hers and hers alone. No

one has the right to make her do something that she does not want to do. The

Supreme Court has stated that it is a woman?s right to have an abortion if she

chooses to. In the Roe V. Wade Decision, the judges stated that the right to an

abortion is a woman?s right and choice by recognizing abortion as a

fundamental constitutional right and choice by recognizing abortion as a

fundamental constitutional right and made it legal in all states. The law now

permits abortion at the request of the 14th amendment?s ?personal

liberty,? women are given the right to receive abortions. The ?personal

rights? included on the 24th amendment proves that a woman?s body is hers

and hers alone, and what she chooses to do with it is her decision. If a woman

does not have the choice of bringing a fetus into the world may not only

jeopardize the future of the mother, but it also has great impact on the future

of the fetus. Many times when a fetus is not wanted by the parents but is forced

into the world, the fetus may be given up for adoption, abused and neglected.

These children in most cases do not have the same kind of opportunities that

other children who were raised by parents that loved and wanted them have. When

a family has a newborn, the parents have great hopes and dreams for their baby.

They hope and dream that their baby will have a successful life. They want their

child to be a well-educated and respected aspect of society. No one hopes that

their child will become a failure. But when a parent is not ready to raise a

baby, she may have hopes and dreams for the baby, but may not know where to

start in making those dreams become a reality. She may decide that the best

solution for herself and the baby might be to put the child up for adoption, in

hopes that the foster parents would provide the baby a better life than the

birth mother would. With all good intentions, the outcome of each child is

uncertain. The outcome of what will happen to the child who is out up for

adoption is uncertain, because it is difficult to find good homes and parents.

There are many children out for adoption, but not enough people looking into

adding another person into their family. Some children never get the chance of

even becoming a part of a family. They are continually transferred from one

foster care to another lacking individual attention and needs. Some children may

find a foster home to live in, but it may become a home, which actually becomes

more dangerous than the streets. There may be an alcoholic that becomes abusive

when he is drunk, and the child may be abused. There may be a mother who cannot

handle stress and releases her emotions on the child by telling the child that

he is useless and not worthy of anything. One the contrary, it is possible that

a child may go into a good foster home with good foster parents. The foster

parents may provide the child opportunities that they may have never had with

their birth parents. But it is still more common that children who are not

raised by their birth parents are more likely to lead to lives of destruction

because their natural parents weren?t ready to take the responsibility of

raising a child that they created. The creation of unwanted children should not

happen. If there is any doubt that a parent cannot raise the child, they

shouldn?t bring the child into this world because children that are not taken

care of by their parents tend to end up in the hands of the government. It

becomes the responsibility of the government to take care of these unwanted

children. Unwanted children are put on the streets, the government needs to find

homes for them, and they need to find rehabilitation centers for children that

need counseling because they have drug or alcoholic problems. The government

needs to supply these children with food, clothes, and an education, but most

importantly, a place and the idea that the children are cared and loved for. Can

the government offer all these things to meet the needs of these children? The

government cannot provide all the things that the children need, contrary to

that, the children provide more than what the government can handle. Unwanted

children who are left to be taken care of by the government grow up and provide

a lot of work for the government. It has been stated in the Young and Modern

Magazine, that unwanted children raise the percentage of crime, pregnancies and

gang activities. If the number of neglected children would decrease, there would

be a decrease in the numbers of crime, pregnancies and gang activities. There

would be a smaller number of people that would be homeless, abused, and left on

the streets to be taken care of. With a smaller number of people with such

problems, it would give the government the time and money to deal with other

issues and problems that society has created. Children can be a positive aspect

to society, but the unwanted and rebellious also can be a burden to the people

and the state. Children should not be a burden to anyone. But if there is a

chance that the children should ever become a burden or an innocent victim

because they were never wanted, they should have never been brought into this

world. Children are precious. They should not be made innocent victims. There is

an argument that killing the fetus before it is born is makes the unborn child

an innocent victim, but the children who know and understand the reality of

their position will be bigger victims than a fetus who does not have the ability

to think and feel. If a fetus is unwanted, for the parents, the child, and the

government, it would be best to terminate the fetus before it is brought into he

world and is abused and neglected.