The Pros And Cons Of Abortion

According to Webster's Dictionary, Abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. Today, More than 40 million abortions will occur in a year worldwide. In the year 2008, 1.2 million women had an abortion in the United States. Teen pregnancy strikes about 1 million American teens each year, and approximately 35% of those teens choose to have an abortion. Diverse personal beliefs leads to popular controversy over the topic of abortion. Those who choose to take action on their opinions of abortion with or against the act are commonly labeled as pro-life, or pro-choice. Teen pregnancy, along with many other scenarios, lead to women making a personal choice to have an abortion. Due to the large range in possibilities of

Not only are women concerned for their own health, but the health of their fetus as well. According to Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives by Lawrence B. Finer, Lori F. Frohwirth, Lindsay A. Dauphinee, Susheela Singh and Ann M. Moore, “seven percent of women cited health concerns for themselves or possible problems affecting the health of their fetus as their most important reason [for considering an abortion] in 2004.” Women who are concerned for their fetus’s health commonly have a family history of genetic health problems. Prenatal screening and diagnostic tests are typically ran on the fetus if genetics are a concern. Another scenario where women would consider abortion for fetal health concerns is when a lack of prenatal care has taken place. There are hundreds of possibilities of risks that can affect a fetus's health. They also claim that “women who felt that their fetus’s health had been compromised cited concerns such as a lack of prenatal care, the risk of birth defects due to advanced maternal age, a history of miscarriages, maternal cocaine use and fetal exposure to prescription medications” as reasons for concern. In these cases it is responsible and unselfish for women to consider