In this post, I want to cover arguments of Pro-Life and Pro-Choice sides. Some links/ pictures may be graphic.
I see lots of different arguments each day regarding how aborting should be illegal. It infuriates me to no end on how little respect Pro-Lifers have for living, breathing people and children. I will begin with a few popular arguments they like to throw out.
Life begins at conception. Since life begins at conception, abortion is akin to murder as it is the act of taking human life.
Now, life may begin at conception, but truly, it began millions of years ago. The "life begins at conception" argument is a philosophical issue. One could argue that the life of a tumor is as important as an embryo because it grows and feeds.
Adoption is a viable alternative to abortion and accomplishes the same result. And with 1.5 million American families wanting to adopt a child, there is no such thing as an unwanted child.
Adoption is an alternative to
parenting, not pregnancy. Adoption does not solve the pregnancy whatsoever.
As a natural mother, I am inclined to point out that adoption is not simple. It carries baggage. It carries mental trauma. It carries the scars.
Moving on, women are not broodmares for those who are not able to have children. Women should consider adoption if they really want to go through with it, not forced into it. A woman should be able to choose abortion, adoption or parenting, not just the latter two.
An abortion can result in medical complications later in life; risk of breast cancer, Post abortion Syndrome, future Ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages and infertility. It is also 4 times more dangerous than childbirth.
Okay, I would like to state this first. The woman's body reacts the same to induced abortion and miscarriage(spontaneous abortion). To the body, induced and spontaneous abortion feels the same. So saying abortion causes cancer is the same as saying women who miscarry are at risk for abortion also, which is not true. Multiple studies have shown that abortion and miscarriage are in no way linked to breast cancer.
"The largest, and probably the most reliable, study on this topic was done during the 1990s in Denmark, a country with very detailed medical records on all its citizens. In this study, all Danish women born between 1935 and 1978 (a total of 1.5 million women) were linked with the National Registry of Induced Abortions and with the Danish Cancer Registry. All of the information about their abortions and their breast cancer came from registries – it was very complete and was not influenced by recall bias.
After adjusting for known breast cancer risk factors, the researchers found that induced abortion(s) had no overall effect on the risk of breast cancer. The size of this study and the manner in which it was done provide good evidence that induced abortion does not affect a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer."
American Cancer Society
Post Abortion Syndrome: It doesn't exist. Well, not really. The Pro- Life side always tries to push the PAS on everyone all while multiple studies have debunked it. Researchers believe that if a woman develops a mental illness after abortion, she was already inclined to mental health problems prior to termination.
“There is no evidence that abortion predisposes a woman to psychiatric and mental health problems. . . . There is no post-abortion trauma, post-abortion syndrome, or anything of the like."
"The Danish study by Munk-Olsen and colleagues also found that among those women included in the study who chose to have babies, as many as 25 percent of them experienced “severe mental disorders, including psychosis and depression after delivery.”[14] Therefore, pregnancy and delivery, rather than abortion, may pose the potential mental health risks to women."
SIECUS
Abortion and miscarriage, infertility, Ectopic pregnancy, etc.:
• The risk of abortion complications is minimal: Fewer than 0.3% of abortion patients experience a complication that requires hospitalization.[11]
• Abortions performed in the first trimester pose virtually no long-term risk of such problems as infertility, ectopic pregnancy, spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) or birth defect, and little or no risk of preterm or low-birth-weight deliveries.[12]
Guttmacher Institute
Childbirth being safer than abortion: This one is just self explanatory on how it's so not true. Recent studies have proven that abortion is fourteen times safer than childbirth. Abortion is the safest procedure done for women. It involves no cutting, stitches, or sutures. I wont even go into just how hazardous a pregnancy alone can be for a woman. Then add childbirth to that.
Time
Reuters
Many Americans who pay taxes are opposed to abortion, therefore it's morally wrong to use tax dollars to fund abortion.
All I have to say to this is: Hyde Amendment.
Women don't fully understand what they are doing.
Yes we do.
Abortion should not be used as another form of contraception.
But it
is birth control. It controls if and when birth will happen. Contraception fails.
Women need to use birth control!
Only 8% of women don't use
any of birth control when they end up pregnant.
"Eight percent of women who have abortions have never used a method of birth control; nonuse is greatest among those who are young, poor, black, Hispanic or less educated.[8]"
Guttmacher Institute
Every baby deserves to live and have a chance at life!
Not unless they will suffer the entire time and die shortly after. I believe in mercy killings and I don't believe people should
have to be born with debilitating conditions such as the ones below.
Warning: Disturbing content.
Caudal Regression Syndrome
Iniencephaly
Anencephaly
Acrania
Mermaid Syndrome
When you're pregnant, it's not your body, and you murder the child.
First of all, it is a
fetus. And just because a woman is pregnant, doesn't mean she loses her bodily autonomy. Secondly, abortion is
not murder. It is not murder to kill a rapist who is attacking a woman. For lots of women, that is how an unwanted pregnancy can feel like- a constant rape, over and over again.
The reason why abortion is not murder is because its intent is not to kill, but terminate a pregnancy, with the fetus dying as a result. For abortion to be considered murder, abortion would have to all about killing the fetus. It is not. Abortion terminates a pregnancy, thus killing the fetus, which does not fit into the category of "murder".
In my mind, I think all this is simple and quite self-explanatory. I believe in bodily autonomy and bodily security. Pro-Lifers do not. Therefore, by their logic, I can go demand a kidney from them and they cannot deny me one.