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Should Abortion Be Legal?

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Athena McGinnis
Mrs. Needham
AP English III
23 November 2015 Twenty-one percent of all United States Pregnancies will end in an abortion. Abortions were banned up until 1973, when the Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade₁ made it illegal and not long after made them a constitutional right for all women (BBC). The US Congress then banned the use federal funds to pay for abortions, except when the mothers’ life would be endangered by a full term pregnancy or in cases of rape or incest. As a result seventeen states now use public funds to pay for abortion for some poor women (U.S. Abortion Statistics). There are many different views on this topic, some for abortion saying it should be legal and then there are some against abortion saying it is murder and should be illegal. Women have the rights to their bodies; if women are not ready for motherhood, we should not force them to have the child they have conceived. Well timed pregnancies give children the lives they deserve to live. On average three out of four women having abortions say that they could not afford the child, and every one out of two say that they did not want to be a single parent or were having issues with their significant others (U.S. Abortion Statistic). Many women cannot afford children and aborting those children give the mothers time to prepare, plan, and wait until they are ready and CAN afford the children that maybe she might have later in her life. Planned childbearing helps couples, families, and

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