Abortion is a woman’s right
Uploaded by samikinz12 on May 12, 2013
Only nine years old, young Katelyn was walking home from school(less than a mile away) and the next thing she knows someone grabs her painfully by the arms. He holds her at knifepoint as he violently rapes her. Young Katelyn has cuts and bruises all over her swollen body. She is traumatized. Just a couple months later, she discovers she's carrying the criminal’s baby. Tears rush down her innocent red cheeks. She doesn't want to experience pregnancy as it will be a constant reminder of the terrible incident she went through. She’s scared and lost with nowhere to go. Why would any human put Katelyn through this? There is a way out, but what if that path to sunshine was demolished? Abortion should remain legal because it reduces crime rates, outlawing it would be unconstitutional, and it’s a woman’s choice of what she wants to do with her body. No opinion should matter whether or not to make abortion illegal. If it keeps our nation a better and happier place to live, then it should stay.
In the 1990’s crime dropped dramatically due to abortion being legalized 20 years before “on January 22,1973 legalized abortion was suddenly extended to the entire country with the us supreme court's ruling in rues v. wade”(pg. 137, Lev/Dev.) the most likely reason that abortion affects crime rates so greatly is because “researchers found that in the instances where the woman was denied an abortion, she often resented her baby and failed to provide it with a good home”(pg. 136, Lev/Dub) and sure adoption is always a choice but most mothers would say it’s hard it is to give up their baby, and if the baby was a result of a rape then the baby could easily grow up with the same mental problems the rapist(may or may not have had) and become a criminal themselves.
Our forefathers came to America for many reasons but one of the most common was religious freedom. “fully 53% of those who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases cite religious beliefs as top influence on their lives, compared with 9% of those who say abortion should be legal” so if we passed a law outlawing something because over 50% of voters who voted for it because of their religion then that takes away not only a woman's freedom but our rights promised to us in...