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Abortion Rights Research Paper

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Abortion Rights “Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard” (Hillary Clinton) Abortion is the terminating of a pregnancy, and if you have been catching up on the news places like planned parenthood has been getting a lot of attention for example, they are being defunded and are relying on donations. The fact that making abortion illegal and defunding places like planned parenthood confuses me. Abortion will happen with or without professionals, children shouldn’t live without a loving family and, it’s a personal choice. Although, countries have made abortion illegal it still happens within those countries. Abortion laws are not associated with lower rates of abortion, just because you restrict something doesn’t mean it won’t happen. According to ScienceDirect, 19 million unsafe abortions take place each year. To add onto that, there are videos of women teaching other women how to abort unsafely a video. One video takes place in Chile, which according to Women on …show more content…

Abortion is a personal decision that should only be concerning to you but the argumentative side of it should have nothing to do with arguments. As I was researching evidence for this essay I came across an article by Hadley Freeman on The Guardian which she had some awesome points and some quotes that I just had to add into my essay. An example of this would be, “to say abortion should be banned because you regret yours is like saying marriage should be banned because you hate your husband”. As Freeman says in her article reducing a general issue to a personal anecdote takes you nowhere and it will lead you to a dead end. To finish this off, just because it’s a personal decision doesn’t mean your personal experience should be added into the

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