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Persuasive Essay On Abortion

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Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy. We are in a world where abortion seems to be the right decision a teenager would choose, but do not know the consequences. Teen abortion should not be allowed because young girls do not understand abortion causes health risks and mental anxiety.
There has been a big number of teenagers having abortions. “About 91,000 out of 1.3 million abortions were performed on 18 year old girls and under” (Lee). Teenagers begin to live in that fear which makes them feel they have no choice, but to have an abortion.“Some minors, including those pregnant as a result of rape or incest, girls trapped in abusive homes or struggling to survive as runaways are unwilling to unable to communicate with their parents for compelling reasons”(Ballaro). Not all girls hid about abortion to their parents. “in some …show more content…

Some teenage girls take some sort of pills called morning-pills. These pills disrupts the development of a fertilized egg. “Can have blockage, such as a blood clot cutting off the lung’s blood supply”(Newton). Having a blood clot in the lungs decreases the level of oxygen in the blood, but also damages other organs. It also develops heart attacks and or strokes. “Having infections, excessive bleeding embolism, ripping or perforation of uterus and endotoxic shock may occur” (Jacobs and Sprague). There are no safe practices and depending on how late of an abortion women have waited can be more of a painful procedure. “Teenagers and unmarried women suffer the most negative health of an unwanted pregnancy” (Anderson). Many unsafe abortions may lead to deaths of thousands of women, but could also cause actual health problems like cancer. “Abortion increases a women’s risks of developing breast cancer by 30 percent” (Rubin and Wagner). Other risks that may occur are kidney failure, risk of having a stroke, or having heart

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