Tessilyah DeLisle
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Argumentative essay on Abortion
For many years, abortion has been a contentious issue; some claim that abortion is evil and should be forbidden, while others argue that it should not be prohibited and should be more normalized. I believe that if a woman wants an abortion, she has all rights to do that without getting bashed. There are various reasons why someone may want/need an abortion: she may have been raped, she is unprepared, she knows she is not emotionally or financially secure enough to bring a kid into this world, and so on. So, telling a woman what she should do with her body, especially if they do not have a uterus, is ridiculous.
Stephan Koff’s article “Abortion Controversies” discussed how, nearly a half-century after the United States Supreme Court declared a constitutional right to abortion, anti-abortion activists are hopeful that the current court’s conservative majority will place additional restrictions on the operation or overturn Roe entirely. More than a dozen lawsuits funded by anti-abortion organizations and conservative state lawmakers are currently pending in lower or appellate courts, and any of the cases might pave the way for the Supreme Court to modify federal abortion law. As a result, abortion-rights groups and liberal politicians are attempting to broaden abortion rights under state law in order to protect access to the procedure in the case of a federal reversal.
I chose this post since it was the first and, in my opinion, had more to write about. I learnt that there are lawsuits being filed by anti-abortion activists. I also realized that they are working hard to repeal the law that allows women to abort a fetus, which I find insane because who is anyone to tell a woman what to do with THEIR body, but I chose this topic for one because it has been debated for years and I spent a long time researching it to decide whether I wanted to take a side or remain neutral, and I did choose a side. I’m going to look for and read more articles on this topic to have a better understanding of both sides and their rationale for taking the positions they do.
Since 1973, abortion has been legal in the United States. Anti-abortion advocates have campaigned hard for years in the nation’s state legislatures, which have “approved more than 200 legislation imposing additional abortion restrictions.” Many of the new state rules are being challenged and monitored in court by abortion supporters, who claim they are illogical and impede women, particularly poor women, from getting safe, legal abortions according to William Wanlund in the article “Will the Supreme Court impose new restrictions?”. Anti-abortion advocates succeeded in a couples of states protesting and eventually getting the law to ban abortion. Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas have all passed abortion restrictions in early pregnancy, with no exceptions for rape or incest according to Jennifer Haberkorn in Los Angeles Times.
How is forcing a baby onto a mother that clearly does not want one an good idea? Then, if the mother is unable to provide for her children and get basic requirements, she is chastised once more for being a bad/unfit mother. Just 2 hours ago Idaho the state’s Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a new legislation that would restrict abortions after six weeks of pregnancy from taking effect. In Idaho Supreme Court blocks new abortion restriction law from going into effect by Kyle Morris.
In conclusion abortion should be legal and accessible to those who need and want it.Abortion shouldn’t be looked at as murder and women who want to go through with the procedure shouldn’t be harassed or bashed for wanting to do it as you and anyone else may not know their situation or reasoning for wanting one.If it was such a terrible thing to do it wouldn’t have been approved and practiced for many years.
References:
Wanlund, W. (2014, March 21). Abortion debates. CQ researcher, 24, 265-288. http://library.cqpress.com/
Koff, S. (2019, March 1). Abortion controversies. CQ researcher, 29, 1-27. http://library.cqpress.com/
