Orvana Williams Discussion 14

Based on the most recent events revolving around abortions as well as who may be allowed to go about said procedures are wavering. The overturning of Roe V. Wade in the article Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows one can see that another important topic is why pro-life and pro-choice activists think the way they do around the topic of abortion. To build an argument that helps one understand why abortion is necessary to some and unnecessary to others. According to said article, “Much of Alito’s draft is devoted to arguing that widespread criminalization of abortion during the 19th and early 20th century belies the notion that a right to abortion is implied in the Constitution.” My overall thoughts, illustrate the imbalance of what is actually morally right within one’s society, while also demonstrating how long these morally imbalances has affected us as individuals. Adding on to why woman are always expected to keep a baby not because she or anyone else wants it, but for the sole purpose of reproduction.

The political-economic order is made up of various variables, one of which is race. Black women in the United States have the highest abortion rates in the country. This is due to the significant financial disparity between white and black households, which persists even within poor families. Within the documentary, Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa, There’s this sort of insight of those who may be considered in the minority being that there where these different cases of woman attempting the scrap together anything they have to just afford an abortion. The Documentary states, “The discriminatory hide amendment is a woman’s health catastrophe, In affect it makes abortion only an option for the wealthy”. For example, In the minority community black children and black women are heavily fetishized for not only their features, but their style and hair as well. So there have been many instances where a woman could be raped, or forced to have a child simply because someone wanted the features, and now that child has to grow up being the abortion that never happened, and to live with that could definitely do some serious psychological damage which infact will render that child traumatized . This kind of rationale, banning abortion for the sake of reproduction, completely eradicates any sort of sensible reasoning a woman may or may not have for actually wanting an abortion.

Humanities need to reproduce isn’t because life is valued, it’s because society has a need “to continue the endless cycle of human production” Is one of the most vital aspects I feel as though has stuck with me. Following the article, Telemedicine Abortion Provider Rebecca Gomperts Gets Abortion Pills Into the Hands of Those Who Need Them: ‘It’s a Privilege’ revealed a side to what it may look like for woman trying to help other woman in what we can all relate to “In addition to delivering abortion pills by mail, Gomperts has continued to find creative ways to get pills into the hands of women. Over the last decade, Women on Waves has deliveredabortion pills by ship to women in MoroccoGuatemala and Mexico; by drone in Poland and Ireland; and by robot in Northern IrelandPoland and Mexico“. Showing us that there will always be a way for what is morally correct to be done, if even once defied.

3 thoughts on “Orvana Williams Discussion 14

  1. Aleah Alamo

    Hi Orvana,
    As you discuss, there are so many moving parts when considering illegalizing abortion. Despite knowing the damage overturning Roe v. Wade can cause, government officials are still continuing the discussion. With this in mind, the reversal of Roe v. Wade is absolutely a matter of oppression. As you said, rationalizing banning abortion for the sake of reproduction, completely eradicates any sort of sensible reasoning a woman may or may not have for actually wanting an abortion. This is not an issue of morality, it’s an issue of human rights.

  2. Dylan Dong

    This was an interesting read. I think that the abortion bans are more about control over women’s bodies as opposed to reproduction.
    Criminalizing abortions will only stop safe abortions! Lack of access to safe abortion will disproportionately affect BIPOC, and if Roe v.Wade is overturned we will probably see a spike in deaths due to improper unsafe abortions.

  3. Mamadou A Diallo

    I’m glad someone brought it up , black women do have the highest rate for abortion in the U.S. Would have the United States not try to bring this discussion of overturning the right to abortion if it close to equally needed and not just mostly minorities. Societies need to reproduce is important. I think this problem could affect the rate of children being born.

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