Allowing Abortions in Certain Situations
Allowing Abortions in Certain Situations
When having unprotected sex you are taking a risk, a risk to conceive a child. Every action taken has a consequence, and when a couple has unprotected sex, they must deal with the consequences. A woman who is old enough to conceive a child should take the responsibility to raise the child: abortion should not be an option since she took the risk. A woman should not have an abortion because she wants to; she needs a solid reason to do it. A reasonable instance for a women to get an abortion would be if she were raped; the baby was conceived out of incest; or that the baby or mother was in danger. There are some other reasons that would make an abortion a reasonable decision.
One of those reasons is that severe anomalies or chromosomal abnormalities with the fetus. Which can only be identified through amniocentesis. This is the test most commonly used to determine whether the child is abnormal or not. In a few cases the embryo lodges in one of the woman's fallopian tubes, and has to be quickly surgically removed in order to prevent an almost certain death from blood loss (Cook 63-68).
Seventy-five to eighty percent of rape victims that become pregnant choose to let the baby live and do not get an abortion. They believe an abortion would be just another act of violence perpetrated against their bodies and their children(www.prolifeinfo.org). Some of the other pregnant rape victims believe that their child's life may have some meaning or purpose which they do not yet understand. The child was brought into their lives by a horrible, repulsive act. But perhaps God, or fate, will use the child for some greater purpose. They believe that good can come from evil.
In the case of Roe vs. Wade (1973), the US Supreme Court held that the US Constitution protects a woman's decision to terminate her pregnancy. Through the end of the first trimester, her decision, made in consultation with her physician, must be free from government interference (Cook 56). "We should overturn Roe vs. Wade and pass a Human Life Amendment to the constitution protecting the constitutional right of our posterity," said Presidential candidate Alan Keyes (www.yahoonews.com). Starting at the end of the first trimester, however, the states...