To end a pregnancy is an immense and challenging decision for anyone to make, which some are trying to make that decision for others by attempting to make abortion illegal and cut federal funding. Over the years abortion has drawn a large debate on whether it should be legal or not. It has people split into two separate groups, pro-choice and pro-life. Pro-choice supports the action of abortion and believes it is the decision of the woman, while pro-life believes in carrying children to full term. From this debate, many court cases and rulings arose, all with the same basic question: Should abortion be legal? While many believe that abortion is immoral and should not be legal, the Supreme Court has already made its ruling, and it has been declared …show more content…
Birth defects, mental deficiencies, and in worse cases, fetal alcohol syndrome are all effects of alcohol use during pregnancy (Adamec and Gwinnell). Fetal alcohol syndrome is a medical condition among newborns with mental and/or physical defects from the mother’s use of alcohol during pregnancy. Alcohol is not the only drug that will affect a pregnancy. Another everyday drug for some would be the nicotine from smoking cigarettes. Smoking is not only bad for the mother, but can also cause miscarriages and a low birth weight on the fetus. It was even shown that babies were more likely to suffer from sudden infant death syndrome up to five times more than non-smoker babies (Adamec and Gwinnell). In a pregnancy, ultimately the mother and child are connected for nine months, and “nearly everything that enters [her] body will be shared with [her] baby. This means that any drug [she uses] will also affect [her] baby. … The chemicals can build up to extremely high levels in the baby's system and cause permanent damage” (Das). Therefore, if a mother has abused these drugs, or any other more harmful drugs without knowledge of her pregnancy, it can sustain life-long effects on the child. She should have the right to choose whether after her actions, if she should be have to bring this child, with potentially multiple defects into the