Research Paper Example on Abortion

In the book, Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography, The First Lady, Nancy Reagan stated, I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should. I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder. I strongly agree on the fact that conducting an abortion is an act equal to murder. I do not support abortion because life begins at the moment of conception, the procedure is medically unsafe for women, and it is discrimination against the unborn child. On January 22nd, 1973 through the Roe v. Wade case, the Supreme Court published its decision that abortion was now legalized and is a fundamental right protected by the United States Constitution. From 1973 to 2017, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has reported over 59 million abortions and counting. I believe abortion is murder, regardless of circumstance.

The definition of murder is, The unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse (Contributors, 2017) Why is abortion legal, yet if an individual murders a woman with the child they are charged with double murder, regardless of how far along they are in their term? On April 1st, 2004 George W. Bush signed into law, The Unborn Victims of Violence Act. This law states, if a child in utero is injured or killed during the commission of certain federal crimes of violence, then the assailant may be charged with a second offense on behalf of the second victim, the unborn child, and also covers the child in utero, defined as a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb (Gacek). In recent years, the law has been used and amended on the state by state basis, to illustrate the scope of the issue. Very few people have been charged with violation of this law, and since its enactment, Florida was the first state to have an individual charged under Unborn Victims of Violence Act by the federal prosecutor. The victim is believed to have tricked his pregnant girlfriend into taking misoprostol, abortion pills during early pregnancy. This remains the only victim that has been prosecuted under the law.

(Committee, 2004) If there are states that charge an individual with a double murder due to killing a woman with child, there is no question that this law alone makes the legalization of abortion not only an oxymoron but inhumane which results in murder. States such as Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, North Dakota and Oklahoma among others believe the unborn baby should be protected explicitly as well as the mother. Hence charge an individual involved in killing a woman with a baby, with a double murder. Not only is abortion murder, but the different procedures required such as; the application of suction to force out the embryo from the uterus. The dilation and evacuation method where the embryo parts are crushed, and the application of chemical abortion method where drugs are used to prevent the fetus from implantation. These methods are unsafe for women, and they increase the risk of cancer and bacterial infections. Both minor and major physical complications can occur when undergoing the procedures. The minor complications include (but not limited to) infection, bleeding, fevers, gastrointestinal disruption, infections, vomiting, and Rh-sensitization. The major complications include (but not limited to) infection, hemorrhaging, clotting, tremors, ripping of the uterus, and cervical damage. Studies have shown that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer by keeping the late protective effect of differentiation from taking place, whereas keeping the child full-term grants full differentiation of the mammary cells which reduces the risk of breast cancer.

Whether an individual is pro-life or pro-choice, it is important to understand the opposing choice, to argue one's perspective on abortion accurately. The chief reason as to why individuals support the legalization of abortion is because they believe that a woman has a fundamental right to choose what she does sexually and medically to her body. 93% of abortions are performed with a reason given of financial struggles, interference of plans, or simply because the mother is just not ready to have a child.

To the contrary, I believe if a woman feels she has the fundamental right to choose what she does medically to her body, she should be responsible. If she knows she is not ready for a child, she should take the appropriate measures to take birth control or simply not have sexual intercourse. It is important for a woman to understand that the result of abortion is the death every time. Another leading argument that supports the legalization of abortion is rape or incest, yet less than 1% of abortions in the United States derive from either. CDC started abortion surveillance in the 1970s to come up with a report and feature of women obtaining legal induced abortions. The reporting period summarized and described the data that was reported to CDC regarding legal abortion gotten in the US in 2003. The surveillance revealed that a total of 954,473 were reported to CDC for 2003 from 50 regions and this shown a reduction of 0.5% from 967,544 legal induced abortions reported by 49 regions for 1998 and 1.3% decrease for the same 49 areas that were reported same year. There was a decline in abortion ratio of 3.9% by 2003. Abortion ratio is defined as the number of abortions in every 1,000 live births which stood at 235 in 2003 as compared to 256 in the year 1999 for the same reporting 49 areas. From the surveillance, rape represented 30% of the legally obtained abortion by 2003, and the trend is on the increase as rape cases continue to increase (CodyRydzewski).

In conclusion, if a man is willing to pay for an abortion, yet the woman chooses not to have one, the man is still legally obligated to pay child support. If our society believes it is a womans fundamental right to make medical decisions such as abortion and can justify the murder of an unborn child, then it is a mans right to be exempt from child support, if they are willing to pay for an abortion even though the woman decides to keep the child. I find it abstruse why murder and health risks arent enough to validate why abortion should be illegal.

Work Cited

Gacek, Chris. History made as Unborn Victims of Violence Act used to indict the man accused of killing the own child. LifeSiteNews (2013). Retrieved 11 May 2017, from https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/history-made-as-unborn-victims-of-violence-act-used-to-indict-man-accused-o

CodyRydzewski, Susan. "Abortion, Rates, in the United States." The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies (2016).