Before I tell you my position on the right for a woman to have an abortion, you must know exactly what an abortion is. An abortion is a "Induced termination of pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or fetus that is incapable of survival." (The American Heritage Dictionary). Now that you know what an abortion is it is your turn to decide weather you think a woman has the right to choose. I feel that it is the woman's right to choose and I feel that if she wants to have the procedure done, and has a way to pay for, that we should not be able to stop her or force her not too.
             It is said that in the United States in 1996 doctors performed more than 1.3 million abortions (Painter). That means that 1.3 million U.S. woman said that don't want to have a baby and what gives anyone the right to say no to all of those women.
             In 1972 the decision of Roe V. Wade, in which the Supreme Court ruled that a woman has a constitutional right to an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy (United States Government). This decision was based on many things, but the main reason for the decision is because the supreme court was influenced by what it believes the majority of American people support, showing just how many people agree that women should have the right to choose if they want to have an abortion.
             Another example of why women should be able to choose is; what if a woman is raped and she feels that she doesn't want to have the baby because she is just not ready, why can anyone just say that she can't and deny her of a right which is given to her by the Constitution.
             Out of the 1.3 million U.S. women that had abortions in 1996 about twenty percent of them were teenagers under the age of twenty (World Almanac). Out of all of the abortions only 18.4 percent of woman were married. When you combine these two facts you realize that many of these pregnancies may have been accidents, and tha...