Teeter Totter Issue: Abortion

Jenna Bonnichsen

College Writing

11.20.06

The Teeter Totter Issue: Abortion

This topic I’m about to talk about has been on many minds for many years. Its controversial issues have urged women to think about their decisions more, but do they really think about the decisions they make? Although more than one-third of all U.S. women will have an abortion by the time they are 45. In my opinion, this is absurd; I can’t begin to explain how wrong this is, but I can see both sides.

The side of accepting abortion even in its tragedies, is called Pro-Choice. They believe that the woman has the choice to abort the baby, because of personal issues. The major reason to be Pro-choice in sense of their views, is that if rape victims get pregnant, the child that they bear would be better off not being born. Or some argue that the child, if born, would not be taken care of and end up suffering anyway, from means of homelessness or abuse.

But who are we to control everyone in the world? We can’t, but we can control one thing and that is not killing an innocent life.

The flip side is refusing abortion in its entire form. Although, we would like to have exceptions to the rules, such as not admitting abortion beyond a certain point or letting only desperate needs women to have the operation done, reality spikes and lets us know that it is all or nothing. The Pro-Life protesters believe that when a man and woman conceive a zygote, the zygote from day one is the beginning of life, even though it may not be able to feel pain or pleasure, it still is life in form and, therefore, shall not be murdered by us humans that perform the seemingly normal and legal procedure. Also, there is the fact that if a woman has an abortion, she may take on deep depression, regret, self-condemnation, and complications