Abortion

             There is no right to life before birth in any society on Earth today, nor has there been at any former time. Every human being in the United States they are granted their unalienable rights. These rights are life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. I believe each women should be able to have the choice to have an abortion. If she felt the need to have an abortion it would be because she wished to better her own life, she is pursuing her happiness. What if a young women who has a very promising future is raped, should she be forced to have the baby? What if a 4.0, class president, Varsity sports player became pregnant should she give up all her hopes and dreams and have no choice but to have the baby? Should a mother in risk of her own life die just because she had no other choice but to have the baby?
             According to the U.S. Department of Justice somewhere in America a women is raped every two minutes. Imagine your five year old child looking up at you and asking, "Mommy who is my Daddy?" Would you like to be put in the situation of answering this question? No single mother would like to deal with this, but what if you didn't know who the father was? What if you were raped? The Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1996, says that nine out of ten rapes are women. Being raped is a very traumatic experience for the women, but what about the child? Having the baby could be a daily reminder of the rape, and could have equally horrible psychological effects as an abortion. The women was already violated and forced to become pregnant why should she be forced to have the baby. In America you have so many freedoms and choices why shouldn't women everywhere have the choice of giving birth.
             Each year, one million American teenagers become pregnant, and 85% of these pregnancies are unintended, says the National Abortion Federation. Teen pregnancy is the result, not the cause, of growing up poor. If a girl isn&ap...

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