Abortion American Right or American Murder?
...en inalienable rights guaranteed by the Constitution. One of those is the right to pursue happiness. An unwanted pregnancy can certainly disrupt a woman’s pursuit of happiness. Many pregnancies that end in abortion are due to carelessness. This usually involves young women between the ages of 15 and 25. At those ages some women are might not be financially, mentally, or physically ready to have a child. And because of those factors they should have the choice whether or not to have an abortion, after all it is their body. On the other hand, many pregnancies are due to incest and rape victims. This is when a woman get an abortion because the baby is fathered by someone they don’t love. And they don’t want to have a child by someone they don’t love, under those terrible circumstances. If abortion is made illegal, they will still be performed. One third of all pregnancies in the United States end in abortion a year. 2,500 of those abortions are already performed illegally. The number of self-performed abortions will also rise if it is made illegal. The methods used in these include the use of lye, lysol, iodine douches, as well as self inserted catheters, knitting needles, and goose quills in order to kill the fetus. When women lose their right to choose for themselves they will start using these methods that do serious harm to the mother. But pro-lifers have a totally different view that I feel is the right one. Pro-lifers see abortion as murder. Abortion is wrong and it ...