The world today is a world divided. On a very general scale, it could be divided into those with conservative views and those with more liberal views. It is an age of those who previously had no voice being able to tell their side of the story, and being supported as they do it. The issue of abortion is certainly not a new controversy but it has recently been thrown into the spotlight again as the presidential election took place. Women’s bodies have once more become a battleground for the public instead of their private sanctuaries. Many issues with abortion have more of a moral opinion to them, however, there is evidence and hard facts about the abortion process and the negative effects of being denied one. There should not be laws prohibiting …show more content…
If abortion is made illegal as it once was, the situation will simply go back to how it was back then. Back-alley, dangerous abortions killing more and more women. It will become women untwisting a wire hanger and sticking it inside themselves, overdosing on medicine, purposely crashing their cars, putting themselves in danger in a desperation-fueled mindset to save themselves from the life-altering consequences keeping and delivering a baby will bring. “Women with money can have abortions, and women without money have babies or—and I'm not kidding—they drink bleach (Beusman).” This powerful statement by Mara Clarke, founder of the Abortion Support Network, hits home with the example of how desperate women denied abortion can get. Clarke was told by a mother of four 'I'm trying to figure out how to crash my car to cause a miscarriage but not permanently injure myself or die.' (Beusman) Women are willing to potentially kill themselves rather than face having a baby that could be a death sentence for them. Pro-lifers usually see things on a very basic, surface level. Not many understand the lengths a woman denied abortion will go to save herself and anyone who depends on her. Knowing this, forcing a woman to carry a baby is inhumane at the