Abortion morally Right?
Abortion is an issue that has that has caused much controversy over the last century. From abortionists fighting to legalize birth control contraceptives in the 1920’s to abortion finally being legalized to Americans in the 1970’s, abortion has always been fought for and against with passionate intensity. People take both fanatical and indifferent sides on the issue. Some say that it’s a woman’s right to choose others that it is murder, but what is at the root of the issue. Where and when did we as a people overwhelmingly decide that abortion should be legal? I understand that on the surface this seems an easy issue to analyze, after all it is not a secret that abortion was illegal in all fifty states the 1970’s, but what sparked the movement to make abortion legal in the United States? Nietzsche would say that it was mankind’s desire to get back to primitive nature when “mankind was not yet ashamed of its cruelty, life on earth was more cheerful…” (Nietzsche pg. 67). However, I believe it is different than that; its not necessarily mankind wanting to get back to more simpler by women wanting and needing to gain some control over something they have never has, themselves. Before 1970 abortion was illegal everywhere in the Uni . . .
You see at this time in our country it is completely unacceptable for a woman to participate in a sort of sexual activity outside of marriage; however any sort of male sexual promiscuity is looked the other way about. Back at the turn of the century a woman’s goal in life was to grow up, get married, raise their children, adore their husbands, and make sure dinner was on the table on time. ted States, in fact it wasn’t until the 1950’s that birth control pills became legal by the United States Government. The double standard is the separate set of rules that a society has in regards to sexuality for men and for women. Second, the girl might have the baby and live in her shame until a “foolish” man decided to marry her. Although today we find it hard to believe that people would be so ignorant as to believe that woman should not stand on equal footing as men, looking back on our society at the turn of the century and up until very recently in the past we find women being treated as one might treat a servant or even so far as cattle. However, now in the twenty first century only fifty years sense birth control was legalized, abortion is safe, legal, and more widely accepted than ever. If there can be so much change in the last eighty years think about how different the next eighty could be. Gone are the days when women didn’t contribute, as they do today, to the workforce because they weren’t allowed to pursue careers or education (Feldt, pg. I mean isn’t that the beautiful thing about America, that we don’t fear the change in fact quite the opposite it is the ability to change for the good that sets us apart from other nations of the world. Sparked by the civil rights movement, the push for women’s rights came fast, strong, and hard, and the nation took note. “Thousands of married women as well as single girls died every year because the law had driven them into attic hideouts and motel room surgery” (J. Lacking an autonomous resource base, most women chose illegally what they could not acquire in a more licit way. It is amazing how much change a society can go through in only a matter of years when it decides to let the other half of the population have a say in what goes on in the country.
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