Fuller's Argument Against Abortion

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Controversial and heavily debated, abortion is the hot button issue of the Republican Party. Abortion, the act of ending a pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo from the womb, is a multifaceted issue that has been in heavy debate since before the 19th century, and became a huge issue in the early 1960’s. This is easily the most important example of women’s rights, in which there are virtually no women actually making the decisions for themselves. Even the Supreme Court, which decided in favor of women’s reproductive rights, was made up of older aged Caucasian men. In September of 2015 a hearing, using misleading or false data, was held about Planned Parenthood funding after several videos came out claiming Planned Parenthood used and sold fetal tissue. This hearing was held by nearly all males, with …show more content…

There were few people there that day that were women, representing women, about women’s issues. Fuller says that an argument in her time is that men are “privately influenced by women… and is too much biased by these relations to fail of representation their interests”. To her this is just plain wrong. This is something that has remained the same in both her time, and within the present day. While Fuller is right when it comes to proper presentation of women, and the lack thereof, but also when it comes to full equality to men in all situations; within certain households, government, marriage, and religious settings women are more often than not in the lesser position. Fuller says that many people think that in marriage, man is head of the house and women the heart. Problems with the law derive from the problem of women being viewed as inferiors, equal to children but not men. While it is not like this in today’s society in America, it is like it in other places around the world. In the UAE, women are slowly getting into the workforce, with 45% of Kuwaiti women were part of the labor