Abortion:
an unwinnable
argument
What is abortion?
Pro-life and Pro-choice
Pro-life
Agenda Pro-choice
Abortion and its outcomes (pros and
cons)
Conclusion
DISCLAIMER
-Gender neutral pronouns and terms have been used, as
transgender and non-binary people can also get pregnant.
An asterisk [ * ] symbol has been used alongside some
words (such as 'woman' and 'mother') in order to indicate
that the word includes other genders either because a
fitting gender neutral term could not be found, or because
the word was part of dialogue directly pulled from a source
(for proper qouting)
What is abortion?
To put it simply, abortion is the
procedure to end a pregnancy or to
terminate a pregnancy.
This procedure is carried out by
taking medicines or having a surgical
procedure
The abortion debate is an ongoing
controversy surrounding the moral,
legal, and religious status of induced
abortion.
Pro-life and Pro-choice
Pro-life presses on the right of the embryo/fetus to
gestate to term and be born.
Pro-choice emphasizes that it is the pregnant
person's choice whether to terminate a pregnancy.
Pro-life
The pro-life activists state that abortion is an
abomination. "It makes no sense for a
woman* to murder a human being not even
born."
A fetus is the beginning of life. They argue
that regardless of the person's life situation
(many who abort are poor, young, or drug
users), the value of a human life cannot be
measured.
Some even state that if one did not want to
get pregnant, they should have been more
responsible.
Abortion should be banned. Besides, there
are plenty of couples who are willing to
adopt an unwanted child.
Pro-choice
"Abortion is a choice that should be
decided by each woman*". It is not
murder as the fetus is not yet fully
human.
Most importantly, regardless of the
reason for abortion, it should be the
pregnant person's choice because it is
their body.
While adoption is an option some
choose because of their respective
situations, many individuals do not
want to suffer the emotional and
physical trauma of pregnancy and labor
only to then give up the child.
Abortion and its outcomes
To further understand this topic, lets take a look at some of it's pros and
cons.
PROS Abortion gives pregnant people the
Reproductive choice empowers option to choose not to bring fetuses
01 women, trans people and non binary
people alike by giving them control
02 with severe abnormalities to full term.
Some fetuses have such severe
disorders that death is guaranteed
over their own bodies.
before or shortly after birth.
People who receive abortions are less likely
to suffer mental health problems than those
denied abortions. A peer-reviewed study
03 Reproductive choice protects people
from financial disadvantage. 04 found that those who were denied abortions
"felt more regret and anger" and "less relief
and happiness" than the ones who recieved
abortions.
CONS
Life begins at conception, so unborn babies
Abortion is murder. The killing of an innocent
are human beings with a right to life. Upon
human being is wrong, even if that human
02
fertilization, a human individual is created
01 being has yet to be born. Unborn babies are
considered human beings by the US
government. At least 38 states have passed
with a unique genetic identity that remains
unchanged throughout his or her life. This
individual has a fundamental right to life,
similar fetal homicide laws.
which must be protected.
Abortions reduce the number of
adoptable babies. Instead of having Abortions cause psychological damage.
Another peer-reviewed study found that
03 the option to abort, pregnant people
should give their unwanted babies to
people who cannot conceive if they
04 “Young adult women* who undergo abortion
may be at increased risk for subsequent
depression.”
do not want to raise a child.
Conclusion
This is not an argument that can be won. When women*
are urged to “shout your abortion”, and when abortion
becomes the subject of stand-up comedy, the attitude
toward abortion seems morbid. Who could possibly be
proud that they see no humanity at all in the ultrasound
images that science has made so pointedly clear? When
anti-abortion advocates speak in the most graphic terms
about people “sucking babies out of the womb,” they
show themselves without mercy. They are not
considering the extremely human, complex, and often
heartbreaking reasons behind a person's private
decisions.
Thank you
-Source: various websites from google ones from
wikipedia for getting definitions of a few terms and
various web articles. A few discusions were also made
with friends and family to get their views on the topic
