Pro-choiceView of Abortion Issue
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This paper will argue in favor of the pro-choice point of view in the current abortion issue. A movement has recently developed in America in which members of various fundamentalist Christian and right-wing conservative groups are seeking to outlaw the practice of abortion. One such group, known as "Operation Rescue," has sought to dramatize this issue by blockading women's health and family-planning clinics. At the same time, pro-choice rallies across the United States have begun to attract hundreds of thousands of participants who want to protect women's rights to legal abortion. Indeed, the right to choose whether or not to have an abortion has been a constitutional right for women in the United States since the 1973 Supreme Court decision in the Roe v. Wade case "extended the protection of the Constitution to women's right to an abortion." The controversy which has arisen over abortion has inspired passionate arguments on both sides. However, it is clear that most Americans today favor the right of women to make their own choices regarding their own bodies. A recent editorial in The Nation stated that "upward of 70 percent of Americans are pro-choice." Personal freedom is a fundamental right in America and women must retain their rights to choice and self-determination without government interference. The United States government must recognize that abortion is a matter of personal choice and should not seek to impose greater restrictions upon it. Above all, t
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, many women are not able or willing to undergo nine months of pregnancy in order give their child up to a stranger. In many cases abortion is the most humane solution for women with unwanted pregnancies, provided they have no personal moral convictions which might make them uncomfortable with it. The choice of whether to carry a fetus to full term or get an abortion is difficult enough without complications from government entanglements. As noted by Kate Michelman, the executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League: "Women don't have abortions they want. They have abortions they need."
In addition to maintaining women's right to selfdetermination, keeping abortion legal serves to improve the health of the general public. Unwanted children are in general not well cared for. Furthermore, if abortions are made illegal, many women would be forced to obtain them illegally. In all likelihood affluent women would be able to get fairly safe abortions illegally, or would at least have the means to travel to wherever they could get safe and legal abortions. However, many poor women in America would be forced to submit to dangerous and degrading back-alley abortions, which in the past often caused permanent phy
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)
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