Planned Parenthood: A Proposal To Reduce Abortion

Abortion has been an ongoing debate for quite some time now. According to Learn Teach Change, the definition of abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing the fetus or embryo before it can survive outside of the uterus. When a mother loses her baby naturally it is called a miscarriage. Those who are against abortion often state that an embryo or fetus is a human with a right to live and some will even compare abortion to murder. Those who say abortion should be legal, often state that a woman has a right to make the choice concerning decisions about her own body. Abortion is harmful to the fetus, but there are many beneficial things about abortions for a larger portion of the population.

Abortions, when allowed by law, in the developed

The abortion rate is at its lowest level since 1973, 1.46 per 100 women are performed each year (Siemaszko, 2017). Planned Parenthood in helping decrease abortions. Planned Parenthood is helping because they are offering long term options which help lower the rate of unwanted pregnancies, which in return helps lowers the abortion rates. Trump made a proposal to increase the funding to Planned Parenthood if they stopped performing abortions, but that did not get far. The presidents of Planned Parenthood Foundation, Cecile Richards responded by saying, “Planned Parenthood is proud to provide abortions- a necessary service” (Diamond, 2017). Taking away Planned Parenthood would not benefit women's health and would increase the number of unsafe abortions performed. If Planned Parenthood is removed, then abortions will then again increase. This shows that the ones who do not have access to long term options and help are the ones receiving abortions. More Planned Parenthood’s need to be created because they offer abortions while decrease the rate of them

The feminist perspective is control over one's body. When a woman is unable to have an abortion performed it imposes on a woman's freedom (BBC Authors, 2014). Gender equality is also denied when a woman is not allowed to get an abortion performed. A woman does not have all of her rights until she gets to decide whether or not she wants to become a mother. When looking at abortion the people who argue that the mother is committing murder are thinking of the woman not as a person, but as a baby container. A woman has her own rights, she should not have to have a child because she got pregnant, there should be the option available to remove the fetus. Marxism is also a provider to the idea that abortion is a woman's right. Marxism is an economic and social system based upon the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (All About Authors, 2017). In other words, Marxism is class barriers. The class barriers are a real problem when it comes to abortions. The majority of abortions patients, 75 %, are poor or low income (Siemaszko, 2017). This shows that the women that are in the lower classes are more likely to have unwanted pregnancies, and if they are not able to receive an abortion, then their rights are imposed. Overall, it goes against human rights to refuse the procedure to any