A Choice of Your Own

             The last twenty-five years, shows that abortion is joining race and war as the most debatable subjects in the United States and Canada (Risks and Realities of Early Childbearing Worldwide). Abortion is a discussion of human interaction where individuals face moral, social, and medical dilemmas that can change a person's life. There are many different views toward abortion, but the two fine distinctions are "pro-choice" and "pro-life." A pro-choice person feels that the decision to abort a pregnancy is that of the mother's and the government does not have the right to interfere. A pro-life person holds that, from the moment of conception, the embryo or fetus is alive, it is a person, and an individual has no right to abort this life (Schwartz 3). It is my belief that despite what the opposition says, each woman has the right to decide if she wants to abort an unwanted pregnancy or bring a child in this world.
             In 1973, the Roe vs. Wade decision proves women's rights by recognizing abortion as a fundamental constitution right, making it legal in all states. Today, the law permits abortion at the request of the woman without any restrictions in the first trimester and some restrictions in the second trimester to protect the woman's health. At the stage subsequent to approximately the end of the first trimester, the State, in promoting its interest in the health of the mother, has the choice to regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are related to maternal health. For the stage following viability, the State, in supporting its interest in the prospective of human life, may choose to regulate and proscribe, abortion except where it is necessary for the safeguarding of the life or health of the mother (Baird and Rosenbaum 33-40). In addition, the National Abortion Right Act League argues that without legal abortion, the female gender would be denied their constitutional right !
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