Kayleigh White

POLS 1100
Paper and reflection

Political issue statement

Should abortions be legal or illegal?

Summary of opposing positions

Governor Perry said, “We have an obligation to prt3ect unborn childr3en
and to hold those who peddle abortions to standard that would minimize the death,
disease, and pain that they cause.” Davis then explains that they never discussed
what would help prevent unplanned pregnancies. She argues that
prevention of abortions is not the surest way, but prevention of
pregnancy is the surest way to decrease the demand for abortion.
She talks about a long time ago when abortion was illegal, only the
wealthy could afford abortions. They had the ability to travel to places
that it was legal. The women who didn’t have the access would have to
carry to term or use unsafe methods to abort the baby themselves. It
some cases it could tern into a life-threatening consequence. Because of
abortions being banned, it interfered with the woman’s healthcare
decisions before her and her doctor could come up with a healthy
decision for her own health and the health of the pregnancy.
Less then 2% of abortions occur after 20 weeks. Davis claims it is
still important that a woman and her doctor have every medical option
available. In Texas they require abortions done after 16 weeks to be
performed in ambulatory surgical centers.
She says, “We trust our doctors, not the government, to determine
what medical equipment and what sized room is necessary to provide us
with good care.” Most abortions are outpatient procedures that could be
performed in a health care center, making any other requests are
unnecessary, and not about the health of women.

Most persuasive argument

I found the article Why abortion is bad for America to be the most
persuasive article. In it, it states, every religion condemns the practice of abortion.
They recognize life is a gift from the creator, and compels followers to believe that
as well, as a basis tenet of faith.
An argument is that the pro-abortion or “pro-choice” says there is a
fundamental right to abortion in America. Even though people are pro-choice a lot
of people think it is wrong and don’t agree with abortion. They just think it should
be legal. They will claim its an unwanted child. The child is being brought into this
world and isn’t going to be cared for. By saying that in this article they say the
unwanted children that are already alive should be eliminated.
After the argument of not being wanted gets shut down the move to the
argument of well, it’s a woman’s body. The woman has the right to do anything
she wants to her body. Well the woman does have a right to control her body, but
there is also the right to live. The two rights are being conflicted together, a
woman’s right to choose and the unborn child’s right to live.
People will automatically say, our right to choose is more important than the
right to live. It’s not a person, an embryo is not a person, a fetus is not a person. It
is not a person because it cant live on its own. This thing was created by a person
has the DNA of a person and it will become a person. Then people will say it is a
person, but not a life. Its not a life because it can’t be sustained on its own without
the person who has a right to choose.
What they considered not viable in 1973 is viable now with the medicine we
have today. We don’t know what the future has instore for us. Therefor viability is
not a good argument. If only human beings are worthy for protection if they can be
sustained on their own then we are also saying people with disability, people who
are temporarily incapacitated are also not worthy of life. There can’t be life
without life.
My opinion and why?
I believe abortions should be illegal. I think by getting an abortion you are
killing a baby that can’t fight for itself. Once it has a heartbeat, I believe it is a
baby. All the arguments of well it isn’t a human if it can’t sustain life on its own is
a bunch of crap because even after a baby is born for the next 18 years of its life
you are caring for that baby. You are giving it what it needs to live, just in a
different form. I think the only time it is ever expectable to abort a baby is if the
mother’s life is at a real dangerous risk of being lost. It should be illegal to abort a
baby once you can find the heart beat on an ultrasound.