Free Essay on the States Prohibiting Abortion
Whether
abortion
is immoral or not, the state oversteps it’s legitimate
function when it prohibits abortions.
Here’s why:
When the state
oversteps its boundaries and prohibits abortions it is denying our personal
freedoms. We have the right to choose our own religions, jobs, schools and many
other examples. But why can we not choose to have a baby aborted if we feel it’s
necessary. For example, if a young lady in high school unfortunately gets
pregnant, she should be able to make the decision to either have the baby or
decide that she’s not ready to birth a child and have it aborted. Some people
might say she should not have that choice, but who are they to make that
decision.
In another case were the state oversteps it legitimate function
when it prohibits abortions, is when a woman has been raped. With this
circumstance should the woman be forced to have a kid that she did not want in
the first place? If a woman is raped she should be able to choose an abortion
because she was violated and has had a personal freedom taken from her already.
Some people might say, “It’s not that we don’t like abortion, it’s the issue
of safety.” There have been cases of people dying or having serious medical
problems due to the abortion procedure. Even with laws in place giving
guidelines to doctors on the procedure, some doctors or unlicensed doctors still
could injure a person, or even kill them. To think that is ludicrous, because a
person could go to a licensed doctor that has statistics of his procedures.
Other people might say that abortion is murder. Abortion is the killing of a
life that is starting to develop into a human being. With this circumstance,
abortion should be treated as a crime and a punishment for that crime should be
given. But if we were to do this, should women who have had miscarriages be
prosecuted for murder also? I don’t think it’s legitimate.
In conclusion
the freedom of making the decision to abort a baby should always lie in the
hands of the woman dealing with it and should not be decided for her by the
state.