Why Abortion Should Be Illegal

Introduction on Why Abortion Should be Illegal Abortion is a hotly debated topic that has been in this country since its beginning and has played and plays a significant role in politics in today's day and age. "First and foremost, everyone who talks about abortion has benefited from not being aborted, by virtue of being alive. Not being aborted allows individuals a chance to reach their full potential in utilizing their autonomy" (Young, 2016). Everyone here would not have the luxury of their opinion if they had been aborted. Abortion is unethical, immoral and should be permanently removed from our society at once. Despite some strong viewpoints supporting the contrary, abortion can be proven immoral and evil through scripture, scientific

Abortions were also a very dangerous and primitive during those times (Henshaw, 1986). If abortion became socially unacceptable again then women would have to return to getting the procedure secretly again just like the women in colonial times. One of the main reasons was because gynecologists did not want to compete with the untrained practitioners(Henshaw, 1986). If abortion were to become illegal again it would have almost nothing directly to do with doctors, but with a political party or even a political movement (i.e. Republicans/the Republican Party(TRUMP!)) The outlawing of abortion spiked during the late 1860s in the United States because people were starting to view abortion as unethical, along with slavery during one of America's biggest social movements (Lockwood, 2016) The only way for abortion to become outlawed again in the U.S. is for people to realize, once again, that it is unethical. By the early 1900s abortions had become less primitive and safer than they had ever been in the past, but it had already been outlawed in all states by 1910. The only way women could get an abortion was if their life was in danger. Many women went to dangerous and shady, "back alley" abortions(Henshaw, 1986). Abortion would most likely not be made completely illegal in today's time, it would probably still be made available to mothers in danger

Wade is the main court case that has brought back abortion into the modern times (1973 - present). The Roe V. Wade Supreme Court case began when Roe claimed that she was raped and wanted to have the baby aborted, especially since she already had a child to take care of. But she couldn't because the law in Texas stated that a woman could only get an abortion if her life were in danger. The case went all the way up to the Supreme Court and they ruled that abortion was a woman's right to her own privacy and that's when states began to allow abortions for any reason desired by the mother (Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, 2015). The Roe V. Wade case is what started one of this country's most heated topics which is still in heavy debate today. If it weren't for Roe, we wouldn't be dealing with this immoral and unethical situation today. Due to Roe's Supreme Court case, approximately "fifty million innocent babies" (McCorvey, 2013) have died since 1973. In order for the murder of countless babies to stop, Roe V. Wade needs to be repealed or else millions more will die a year. In fact Jane Roe even regrets her her participation in the legalization of modern abortion. Jane Roe admitted in an anti-abortion ad in 2013 that she; "realized that my case, which legalized abortion on demand, was the biggest mistake of my life" (Jane Roe, 2013). Roe talks about and openly admits that she has never had an abortion and does not regret having her four daughters. This just shows that the