The Responsibility Of Abortion In The United States

Many people, especially Republicans or Conservative Christians don’t consider terminating pregnancy, abortion, an option if you were to get pregnant. These people often think that “if you are responsible enough to get pregnant, you should be responsible enough to have a child. If you aren’t, then you should be sure to use protection.” Abortion is about allowing women the right to make choices about when they want to have children in relation to their age, financial stability, and relationship stability. If you are both mentally and physically immature, and happen to get pregnant, abortion is a viable option for you. In 2012, the United States, abortion rates are made up 13% of people ages 19 and under, 58% ages 20-29, 26% ages 30-39, and
Going through pregnancy is tough, especially if you are alone, or if you find out you’re pregnant after being sexually assaulted, or raped. At least 1 in 5% sexual assaults result in pregnancy that we know of. Supporting victims in regaining control over their bodies and lives by explaining all available options and supporting the victim's decision about which option to choose is essential. If after exploring all of her options, a victim of any form of sexual violence decides that she cannot go through with a pregnancy resulting from the crime, we should not add any hurdles or barriers to the
Morally and religiously, abortion cannot be justified unless the child is conceived under rape, incest or the mother’s life is compromised. According to the article Abortion is a Form of Genocide, can be labeled by definition a genocide. “The Convention and the International Criminal Court define genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; forcibly transferring children of the group to another