Abortion is a highly controversial issue, since both sides of the topic could be arguably correct. When it comes down to late term abortions however, most people think it should be legal owing to the fact that they occur at a late stage in pregnancy and threatens the life of the mother. Nevertheless, late term abortions should not be outlawed yet any other kind of abortions are unjustifiable. Late term abortions are justifiable in view of the fact that the mother’s intentions were to have the baby at first and later realized if the baby lived she would die. On the other hand, getting an abortion that would not physically harm the mother in any way should be outlawed since killing a human is murder, …show more content…
If it’s against the law to commit a murder, it should be against the law to kill an unborn child for convenience. According to ProCon.org “The Guttmacher Institute reported that half of all women having abortions every year had at least one previous abortion, while 8.5% of abortions reported to the centers for disease controland prevention 2010 were undergone by women who had three or more previous abortions (Abortion.ProCon.org,2016). This information suggest that many women are taking advantage of abortion by using it as a contraceptive method. Freakonomics coauthor Steven Levitt, Phd, wrote that after abortion was legalized “conceptions rose by nearly 30 percent, but births actually fell by 6 percent” (Abortion. ProCon.org). This indicates that not only are women using abortion as a sort of crude and drastic insurance policy but also a method of birth …show more content…
Often a woman is too pregnant, thus the morning after pill would be ineffective in these situations. It in terms of difficult pro-abortion arguments deal with matters of rape and incest. According to Human Coalition “when abortions that are due to rape and incest account for less than 1 percent of all abortions in the United States” (https://www.human Coalition.org/2014/05/27/ofl-helps-unravel-thorny-pro-abortion-arguments/, 2014). That immediately tells us why abortion proponents use the rape and incest argument so often since it is the most emotionally gripping objection and can be applied powerfully despite its actual