Pro Choice Essay

It is no secret that abortion has been one of the biggest controversies of all time. It is a delicate topic that is brought up in schools, at work and on social media. Many people strongly believe it is immoral and have even consider it to be murder. The true definition of abortion is; “The termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to being capable of normal growth.” Those who are pro-life do not support the idea of induced abortion and believe it should be illegal. But here’s the thing: murder is illegal, marijuana is illegal and theft is illegal. Yet people still kill, smoke and steal every single day. My point is, making something illegal won’t make it impossible. What many of pro-life believers and supporters do not understand is that if abortion were illegal, it would still be performed. Abortion would still be practiced although it would be under uneducated staffs. Over 70 thousand maternal deaths occur every year due to unsafe abortions. These women die so the idea of supporting pro-life is a contradiction. Pro-choice believers support the right to privacy and the idea women should have the choice to do what she pleases with her own body. As an example; a woman is raped by a man and becomes pregnant with his child. She decides she doesn’t want to keep the baby; she has an abortion because the idea of raising a child of her rapist is too painful for her to cope with. Pro-choice defenders take sympathies to this woman while she then gets called a murderer by pro-life supporters. Abortions sometimes results in the woman being harassed because of the choice she has made about her own body. That’s what pro-life supports. Often time’s situations like this turns into harassment which can be considered to be part of anti-abortion violence. These pro-life supporters stalk, threaten, and even sometimes kill women who have chosen to have an abortion and even the doctors that provide the procedures. Pro-life also supports the idea that every child has a right to live, even if the mother is not financially able to support the child and the child would struggle everyday along with their mother. These children would be underprivileged and could potentially die from the circumstances they’ve be forced to live in. Again this is what people that are considered to be “pro-life” defend. Pro-choice supports the girl that is fifteen years old loses her virginity and becomes pregnant because she wasn’t fully aware of the consequences of her actions. The choice of her