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If I were to admit to you that I’ve drank a whole bottle of wine and that my best friend just left saying thanks for the laughs, would you believe me? Would you believe me that its taking way too long to type out these simple thoughts? Or that I feel extremely ambitious to post the essay and random weird comments for the next lesson in my ethics class?
I started it this last week. The instructor gave us four topics to pick from and I chose abortion (the others were euthanasia, vegetarinism, and the death penalty). Part of it might have been slightly influenced by Star’s entry about the topic, but most of it is my own thoughts. I feel strongly about the choice being the woman’s and I don’t think such a choice should be made by another. It simply is not their natural right.
Let me point out that this above introduction may be heavily edited in the morning when I am sober…
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3. Pick one of the following issues, as you understand it – you need not do extra research – and write a short essay 2-3 pages that uses two arguments, responds with counter-arguments, then affirms the initial arguments, and underline your thesis statement. You may choose from: abortion, physician assisted suicide, vegetarianism, or the death penalty. (Do you know how hard it was to write an essay like that? EXTREMELY difficult.)
As such, it is better to have the option of abortion than to limit a woman in her possible options. Abortion laws should not even be made because of the possibilities of what a woman may do to obtain abortion illegally. In the case of pregnancies from rape, having an abortion can help a woman who may be struggling with being the victim of such a heinous crime.
Many people believe that killing shouldn’t be an option because of religious beliefs. They believe all people are privy to these convictions. Others believe that to abort a child because of a crime is to punish the unborn baby. So these questions should be raised: are all people to be judged by a universal religious system and is the unborn child capable of even knowing or caring of how it was conceived?
Not every person is of the same religious background. In the United States alone, religious beliefs vary even between neighbors because of the diversity of our nation. Atheism, the belief of no religion or no god, is also a strong factor. Removing the option of abortion because of religious conviction, that is creating laws based on a religious conviction, goes against our nation’s fore fathers and also violates the need for impartiality. Religion and state were created separate for a purpose. This separation is what helps us promote diversity. By providing clean hospital facilities for women who wish for abortions, keeps them safe from seeking illegal means of aborting. It also protects them from possible future harm caused by infection from dirty instruments.
A woman subject to a heinous crime such as rape will undoubtedly suffer repercussions both to her physical self and also her emotional and mental image. Some woman may find that they have no desire to carry an ill-gotten child to term, especially if it is the result of a crime. Young woman – girls even – should still have the option because to not have it could limit their future both in their personal lives and their future careers. As far as punishing an unborn child, how would this be possible if it is a simple collection of cells? No person has memories of being in their mother’s wombs, which could further deduce that growing fetuses have no conscious memories.
By making abortion legal and respectable, we guarantee that all options are there for the woman who has a need to abort. It is not the right of an outside person to tell another person what they can or cannot do. People are only limited in their choices by their own conscious thoughts or ethical feelings. In the end, it is the woman’s soul decision.