Pro Choice Abortions

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Americans live in a nation built on the idea of freedom; freedom of expression and freedom of choice, which is a constitutional right. Yet people are attempting to infringe on our constitutional rights. Pro-lifers want to take away the rights of women by prohibiting their right to an abortion. Due to the moral, social, constitution and medical dilemmas the abortion issue poses, this has been one of the most debatable topics in the United States. The pro-choice view of abortion believes that every woman has the right to an abortion within the first trimester. Women should have full control to make decisions concerning their bodies. From this standpoint, life begins after the first trimester not after birth. Pro-choice does not encourage abortions in any way; it just allows the choice to belong to the mother and the mother only.
Before 1973, abortion was illegal in the United States. This forced women who did not want a child to find abortions illegally. According to www.prochoice.about.com
between 1946 and 1972, an extremely large number of women who had an illegal abortion suffered from numerous complications to their health and many died. Now that abortions are legal, health standards and procedures have improved significantly. A shot of penicillin is more likely to kill a human than an abortion. That is an impressive difference; now imagine if a law was passed today to make abortion illegal, then once again women would face the same threat if they chose an illegal abortion.
The Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973 altered our way of life. It granted women’s reproductive rights. The constitution grants every American the right to privacy, when dealing with abortions this provides the opportunity and choice for a woman to do what she wishes with her body. If abortions were illegal, women would be denied their constitutional right to privacy and liberty. My feeling is that a woman’s body is property of...