Position Paper Draft
Prof. Johnson
Abortion has been a very controversial issue in american society and has been going on for years. Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, and is often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. There are approximately 1.37 million abortions per year, and about 3700 a day. People all across America still debate today if abortion should be legal and if you should be pro life or pro death. There are many risks of abortions and it’s very costly. Even though abortion is legal in America due to the supreme court, individual states can regulate the limit/ use of abortion, or create “trigger laws.” The four main points I will bring up in my paper are: the two different
types of abortion, abortion risks and procedures, the government and states standpoint/outlook on abortion in America, and the controversy over pro life and pro death. I will be going deeper into surgical and chemical abortions and their differences, various abortion cases in each state, the federal government legalizing abortion and the process of how it happened, the risks of getting an abortion, the side effects, and the big debates on whether pro life or pro death is the best method. I'm going to include blogs I find online and look on social media such as buzzfeed also just to see what people say about abortion and the government on abortion.