Did you know you that around 60% of women who had abortions are currently mothers? Since 1973, the US Supreme Court closed the Roe v. Wade case which resulted in pregnant women having the right to legally abort their fetus. Yet, with abortion being legal for 44 years there’s still a lot of contentious debates from pro-life advocates arguing that abortion should not be legal because it’s morally wrong to murder a fetus. On the other hand, abortion is a legal entitlement that can lessen women’s risks of illegally doing so. Pro-life advocates need to understand that abortion is not a wicked action to just kill fetuses, abortion has positive effects that benefit women and society even when it’s viewed immoral.
Almost all pro-life advocates argue…show more content… For their own safety and health, women should not have to undergo abortion illegally. Even if abortion was ever illegal, if a woman does want to keep a fetus she will find a to do so. In other words, she’ll receive an illegal abortion in a back-alley from an uncertified doctor. Furthermore, in an article called America’s Abortion Wars by Kurt Eichenwald discussed a research of comparisons about the past and present time’s abortion rates. Eichenwald stated, “Based on surveys, the best estimates are that somewhere between 200,000 and 1.2 million illegal - and often unsafe - abortions were performed in the United States each year in the 1950s, according to Dr. David Grimes, former head of the abortion surveillance branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and author of the acclaimed book Every Third Woman in America.” Shortly after, the legalization of abortion those rates have declined about 200,000 which may not seem a lot, but in actuality, it is because of our growing population. However, pro-life advocates still don’t accept the fact that abortion will always happen due to unwanted but illegalizing abortion won’t stop it. Instead, they should look more into the cause of unwanted pregnancies, for example, giving all females free access to birth
