Pro Choice

Specific Purpose:

Introduction: Pro Choice is a topic that is constantly under debate even after the decision to make it legal has already been decided. So why is it still under question? Pro Choice is the women’s right to choose what to do after finding out one is pregnant whether it be, carrying on with a pregnancy and raising the baby, giving the baby up for adoption, putting the baby in foster care until the mother is stable enough to take on the responsibilities, or having an abortion. For those of you that don’t know, yes, abortion is legal and abortions do happen everyday for specific reasons.

Transition Sentence: "How did you feel about your abortion," I asked my mom. "Did you ever feel regret, or disappointment, or depression?" My mom paused for awhile and then said "You know, I have never felt any regret. I saw my decision as the best medical and moral decision I could make as a young mother with two infants." The fact is that if my mom had continued the pregnancy, she faced the following bad outcomes: (a) rupture of her uterine wall, which would mean she could never get pregnant again, (b) a very premature baby, who may go on to have a host of horrific health consequences including lung disease/respiratory problems, digestive failures, etc., and (c) excessive hemorrhaging, which threatened her own life. If she were to avoid the worst outcomes to her own health by continuing the pregnancy, but still had a premature baby, she was looking at both an emotional and economic drain, which would