Tiffany's View On Why Abortions Are Not Good

Evaluation On Abortion



Two out of every 100 women have an abortion yearly, while teenagers obtain 19% of all abortions in the United States (www.pregnantteenhelp.org). 19% is a very high number for teenagers to be getting abortions. An abortion is the killing of an innocent unborn baby that will never get to see and experience life. There are two different types of abortions, the pill or by surgical procedure. While there are some reasons to why abortions are acceptable for an example, “A female getting raped” this would be acceptable because the way the female got raped was in an involuntary way, or if it is a life or death situation, but many females abuse abortions, especially teenage females. Abortions are bad because they come with health problems, they are not seen as moral and they are very costly. There are so many negatives that comes with having an abortion, for one : killing a baby, while there are simple and other helpful ways to deal with unwanted pregnancies.
One reason why abortions are bad is because it causes health problems in women. There are many negative side effects after a female gets an abortion. Some women who have abortions end up having more mental health issues than a women who has never had an abortion ever would have (www.afterabortion.org). 10 % of women who has ever gotten an abortion suffer immediate complications while 1/5 of these complications were major complications. Also damages to the cervical happen more frequently and so does miscarriages. Studies have shown that women who tend to have an abortion once in their life has a greater chance in getting breast cancer ( Abortion Harms Women’s Health).
Another reason why abortions are bad is because they are not moral. To kill an unborn child is not seen to be moral at all, especially when the baby does not have a chance have a say in whether or not it wants to be aborted or not. Jeff Jones states in his argument abortions are immoral because fetuses have futures of value ( Abortion is Immoral-3). One would never know what their child would have ended up becoming because they made the decision in getting an abortion. Pope John Paul II states that human life is scared even at birth and conception and that the baby that has been made is a child of god, and only god can say whether or not that child should live or not ( Abortion is Immoral ).
Although raising a child can be costly, having an abortion is even more costly. As stated earlier there are two different methods of abortions, The pill and to have a surgical abortion. The abortion pill will cost you around $400- 600 dollars to get and it is only 97% effective. While getting the surgical abortions is even more costly, running anywhere from $ 400- 1300 dollars, but it is 99% effective. Just think if you were to get the pill and it failed the first time and now you have to get the surgical abortion you would have spent over $ 2000 dollars just to kill your unborn baby when you could have taken another option with your unwanted pregnancy.
Although some of us view abortions as unethical or immoral, there are a few reasons to why abortions are a good thing. The world is always going to have its pedophiles and rapist so there is always going to be some cases where a women gets rapped and ends up pregnant. If the rape victim was a young teenager she might feel to young to keep the baby or to take care of it so getting an abortion wouldn’t be seen as wrong, although there are other solutions other than abortions still. If the mother starts to have health problems throughout her pregnancy then she might feel the need to abort the baby (www.abortiontv.org) While there are some other reasons, although not very good reasons to why people feel as though abortions are a good thing. In example, some women when found out that they were pregnant feel as though they will not have enough money to raise and take care of both the baby and herself so she feels as to get an abortion. While other women feel as though if their relationship with their other half is not working out then they should get an abortion because it would be better for the both of them
www.abortiontv.org).
After viewing what an abortion is and how it is not seen as positive way in getting rid of an unwanted pregnancy there are a lot of positive solutions other than abortions such as : adoptions, there are many families in the United States who are unable to have a children because of health reasons, so the adopted families would be very thankful to raise your baby as their own instead of the female aborting it. Illegalizing abortions altogether would definitely decrease the number of pregnancies because females now know that there is no easy way out to getting rid of their unborn child. By making birth control affordable for women everywhere would also help the number of pregnancies because birth control is 99% effective if taken correctly. Also raising the age for being able to get an abortion higher then what it is now. As stated earlier 19% of women who get abortions are teenagers. Now if they were to raise that number to 20 or even 25 years of age the number of pregnancies that happen each year would decrease because there is no easy way out.





















Works Cited

1. Abortion Is Immoral. John Paul II. Opposing Viewpoints: Abortion. Ed. Tamara L.

Roleff. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1997.

2. Abortion Harms Women's Health. Ian Gentles. Opposing Viewpoints: Abortion. Ed.

James D. Torr. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2006.

3.Abortion Is Immoral. Jeff Jones. Opposing Viewpoints: Abortion. Ed. David Haugen

and Susan Musser. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010.

4. www.abortiontv.org

5.www.pregnantteenhelp.org

6. www.afterabortion.org