Argument Against Partial-Birth Abortion

In the American democracy, the worth of the Individual is a belief that every citizen has value; each one should be treated with respect. In 2003, the George W. Bush Administration signed a bill that banned partial-birth abortions. The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act made it illegal for doctors to abort a fetus when in the second or third trimester, a process that was done in a very morbid way. President Bush considered an unborn child a citizen; deserving of individual rights. This pro-choice argument defended partial-birth abortions rather than the slight chance that the mother’s life was in danger. Bush was trying to get other people to understand that he thinks the mother’s life was not more important than that of the unborn child. Bush stated, "For years, a terrible form of violence has been directed at children inches at birth while the law looked away. Today, at last the American people and our government have confronted the violence and come to the defense of the innocent child."

In December of 2010, the Barack Obama Administration repealed a law that discriminated against a community of people who were looked at more for their sexual orientation than the ability to fight for their country. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was a policy started by the Clinton Administration in 1994. For seventeen years it forced gay people who were serving in the military, to lie about their homosexuality. If they did not obey this rule, they would be dismissed and unable to serve. Obama genuinely stated, "No longer will tens of thousands of Americans in uniform be asked to live a lie, or look over their shoulder in order to serve the country that they