Why We Should Abortion Be Banned

Should Abortions be Banned

Everyone has that one family member or classmate in school who was pregnant, and of course the first thought was are they ready? Which really meant are they keeping the baby. The procedure, for terminating pregnancies knows as abortion, has been around for quite a long time. The Supreme court case Roe v. Wade a 1973 case legalized abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy, allowing a medical or surgical procedure that ends a pregnancy. In Doe v. Bolton, a case in 1973, the Court reaffirmed its decision in Roe v. Wade by preventing laws that require admission to a hospital, approval by the committee, a second medical opinion, or legal residence in a state before an abortion can be performed. Abortions today,

However, the other stated otherwise, that these procedures were also performed on healthy mothers. Susan Willis states, “skeptical journalists at publications like American Medical News did their own research, and discovered that thousands of partial-birth abortions were being done annually, primarily on healthy mothers and healthy babies” (New opinions impact public life). Both articles focus on who these procedures are being processed on healthy or not healthy pregnant women. By contrast, the article “Late-term Abortions Shouldn’t be Banned” focuses on how the procedure is mostly used for unhealthy and life threatening pregnancies, for the women’s health or life. This article lacks knowledge, on the actual truth about abortions in general. It spends more time focusing on how it may be helpful, but not the downside of it. The author did not use any evidence as to what are the risk factors, nor the percentages of risk a woman is at following these procedures for “unhealthy” fetuses. The second article, that emphasizes it should be banned, showed statistics on how people shifted towards prolife. Susan Wills gives a nationwide poll of Americans viewing abortions

These procedures are not just cruel to babies they are cruel to women too for the government to basically allow this. Although, it is only seen in terms of others point of view. Susan Wills used a testimony from a judge, “as Chief Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has stated “from the standpoint of the fetus, and, I should think, of any rational person, it makes no difference, when the skull is crushed, the fetus is entirely within the uterus or its feet are outside the uterus. Yet the position of the feet is the only difference between committing a felony [had the states' partial-birth abortion ban become effective] and performing an act that the states concede is constitutionally privileged” (Where to Draw the Line on Abortion). This gives an example, in terms of how people can view the situation. In this case, the judge is saying it’s not nearly close to infinite, since the position of the feet is what matters plus their performing an act that states allow. The judges, view is simply wrong, it’s like saying, people can hang a baby from a balcony and drop it, since the position of the feet are held together, but since it’s allowed it is okay to do so. His point of view on infanticide and the