Abortion Your Choice Matters

For a long time people have being fighting for the right to choose. This issue of legality of abortion has been argued for ages. The validity of abortion is a right that every woman has to pick. If someone attempts to take away that right he is taking away the right for a woman to make a choice. Aborting a child is a very complex decision and one must factor in a woman’s current status in life. The status at which someone is in life is the deciding factor in whether it is morally right or wrong. The same way if you kill a person who was trying to murder little children on a playground it is fine, but if you were to murder a man because you found out he slept with your wife it is wrong. Abortion should be legal since it can useful in cases of rape, incest and others and since humans become conscious after birth, not before.

A lot of people have many beliefs on abortion, but over the years those beliefs have been divided into two sides; pro-life, and pro-choice. Pro-life according to Merriam-Webster dictionary, means, “Advocating full legal protection of embryos and fetuses (especially opposing the legalization of induced abortions)”, (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pro-life). On the other hand, pro-choice according to Merriam-Webster dictionary means, “Advocating a woman's right to control her own body (especially her right to an induced abortion)”, (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pro-life). Pro-choice refers to the civil and just view that a woman

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should have complete rights over her fertility and that she should have the freedom to decide whether she wants to continue or end her pregnancy.

Women should have control over their body and freedom to decide the course of her lives as part of their civil rights. Also when a woman is pregnant, she is the one that goes through all the strain not the baby, not anyone else. If she chooses to abort the pregnancy, she should be able to do so. Denying her that right to her body is violating her most simple freedom. Roe v. Wade is the current abortion law in the U.S which the central court created, (http://old.usccb.org/prolife/issues/abortion/roevwade/CaseSummariesforwebsite4-18.pdf). According to pro-life activities, the decision was made in 1973. The Supreme Court ruled that women had a constitutional right to abortion, and that this right was based on an indirect right to personal privacy derived from the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments, (http://old.usccb.org/prolife/issues/abortion/roevwade/CaseSummariesforwebsite4-18.pdf).

Critics of abortion say stopping a fetus's existence is wrong. But if the babies healthiness is at question for the duration of the pregnancy a woman should have the right