Abortion

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In 1973, the Supreme Court’s decision made it possible for women to get safe, legal abortions from well-trained medical surgeons, and therefore led to dramatic decreases in pregnancy-related injury and death (1.). Now there is a new proposal to close abortion clinics. This proposal takes away the privacy rights of American women that are guaranteed by our Constitution. By closing abortion clinics the government is not only taking away women’s rights, but is also punishing those who want to exercise their right of a pro choice woman.
Abortion clinics allow thousands of women every year to have abortions. Having the abortion should be the woman’s personal choice. By closing these clinics, there will be no providers to perform the operation, so the choice has already been made for them. Closing the clinics will increase the barriers of having an abortion. When there are too many obstacles, the right to make their own choice is taken away from them. In 1973 the American Supreme Court ruled that Americans’ right to privacy included: “the right of a woman to decide whether to have children, and the right of a woman and her doctor to make that decision without state interference” (1.). The Constitution says we have a right to privacy, so taking away a woman’s chance to make decisions about her own body violates that right.
The American Civil Liberties Union defends the Constitution and peoples’ rights. ACLU( American Civil Liberties Union) has protected the rights of abortion for women, and in recent years has argued mayor cases opposing restrictions that deny woman access to reproductive health care (2.). Policy 263 states: “The ACLU holds that every woman, as a matter of her right to the enjoyment of life, liberty, and privacy, should be free to determine whether and when to bear children.”(2.) The closure of abortion clinics will be done with the purpose to reduce the number of abortions. This raises ...