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Persuasive Essay On Abortion

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Poor, illegal, and having just become a teenage parent four years prior, my mother faced a difficult decision to make. Should she continue struggling through life as a single parent of two children or walk down to the local abortion clinic and make life a little easier for herself? Having had the fear of the Almighty One instilled in her from a very young age and taught the importance of every life, my mother made a choice that lead to my birth. Just like my mother, many women--both young and old--face very difficult decisions to make when a pregnancy occurs. “Will I have enough money to support a child?” “What if the baby has developmental issues?” “How can I have a baby that came from being raped?” These are all questions and circumstances that trouble many women in the U.S. and has lead to the controversial topic of the legality of abortion in our country. Based on my own personal beliefs and values, I believe that abortions should not be legal but, at the same time, no one should govern what a person decides to do with their body. Prior to the 1880’s, abortions took place all over the U.S, but were later banned except to save the life of the mother (Our Bodies Ourselves). In 1973, during the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Case, abortion was ruled as legal in the U.S. This decision opened the floodgates to the debate whether abortion should be legal or not. Since then, there has been no end to this debate. Each state has their own regulations regarding abortion; if it’s illegal or not and the timeframe in which a woman can have an abortion. Planned Parenthood states that in order to have a medicated abortion (abortion pill) a woman must be less than nine weeks pregnant and anything further out requires an in-clinic abortion procedure (Planned Parenthood, 2017). Science teaches us that a developing human’s heart begins to beat at about 4-6 weeks of gestation, meaning that by the time either abortion procedure occurs, a human heart has already been beating. According to the CDC, “664,435 legal induced abortions were reported” in 2013 (CDC, 2017). Growing up, religion never played a big role in my life. My mother, who came from a religious family, never pushed religion or the Bible onto us and not much

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