How Does Abortion Affect Women
Abortions mentally and physically affect women due to an abortion’s imperative requirement for women to make permanent life changing decisions.
The History of Abortions
An abortion is known as the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. According to the National Abortion Federation, In the 1800s states began to pass laws that made abortion illegal, but the anti-abortion laws varied by state, one of the reasons being that many feared that the population would be dominated by the children of new immigrants whose birth rates were higher than those of the native people (NAF). As a partial result, from the 1880s to 1973 illegal abortions known as “Back- Alley” abortions bloomed disregarding the Comstock laws that had forbidden the widespread of information on birth control and it’s services. It has also been reported that the years before the Roe v. Wade case there were an estimated 1.2 million illegal abortions per year. According to Pbs.org, Roe v. Wade was a case in 1973 that resulted in the US Supreme court banning abortions except to save the life of the mother. In 1973 abortions became legalized, but the government and doctors had more power, which left a large majority of women …show more content…
Reasons most women consider abortion experience contraceptive (birth control) failure. According to WebMD.com, “over half of all women who have an abortion used a contraceptive during the month they became pregnant”, so becoming pregnant wasn’t intentional. Secondly, a mother may consider abortion because she is unable to care for her child due to personal issues and may not want the child to enter that environment. Additionally, some women turn to abortion to prevent a baby from being born with birth defects or critical medical problems, which are often uncertain until the end of the second-trimester. Also, pregnancy resulting from rape or incest is another reason women have
The History of Abortions
An abortion is known as the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. According to the National Abortion Federation, In the 1800s states began to pass laws that made abortion illegal, but the anti-abortion laws varied by state, one of the reasons being that many feared that the population would be dominated by the children of new immigrants whose birth rates were higher than those of the native people (NAF). As a partial result, from the 1880s to 1973 illegal abortions known as “Back- Alley” abortions bloomed disregarding the Comstock laws that had forbidden the widespread of information on birth control and it’s services. It has also been reported that the years before the Roe v. Wade case there were an estimated 1.2 million illegal abortions per year. According to Pbs.org, Roe v. Wade was a case in 1973 that resulted in the US Supreme court banning abortions except to save the life of the mother. In 1973 abortions became legalized, but the government and doctors had more power, which left a large majority of women …show more content…
Reasons most women consider abortion experience contraceptive (birth control) failure. According to WebMD.com, “over half of all women who have an abortion used a contraceptive during the month they became pregnant”, so becoming pregnant wasn’t intentional. Secondly, a mother may consider abortion because she is unable to care for her child due to personal issues and may not want the child to enter that environment. Additionally, some women turn to abortion to prevent a baby from being born with birth defects or critical medical problems, which are often uncertain until the end of the second-trimester. Also, pregnancy resulting from rape or incest is another reason women have