Susan B Anthony's Arguments Against Abortion

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In the United States, abortion is a safe and practical method to terminate unplanned pregnancies, however, studies have shown there are serious long-term health risks resulting from inducing abortion. By the age of 45, one third of American women will have had an abortion according to the Guttmacher Institute. The Center for Disease Control reports that 21% of all pregnancies will end in abortion.

Most women choose to abort because of economic or relational pressures. By disregarding a woman’s right to make medical decisions for her body we are inherently disregarding her personhood. The commitment of Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation is to offer women a safe place to make their reproductive health decisions. According …show more content…
Feminism today has taken a drastic turn from early feminism rights championed by women such as Susan B. Anthony. She condemns abortion and the blaming of the woman only, if such a choice is made. In her newspaper, The Revolution on 8 in July 1869, she states that abortion “will burden her [the abortive mother] soul in death.” While this may seem dramatic 147 years later, her point is worth exploring. Post abortive women are more likely to suffer from Post Abortive Stress Syndrome and have a higher risk of breast cancer. In April 2002, Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, M.D., F.A.C.S., testified before the Supreme Court that she had private conversations with leading experts whom all agreed abortion raises breast cancer risk. Her 2009 publication, "Normal Breast Physiology: The Reasons Hormonal Contraceptives and Induced Abortion Increase Breast-Cancer Risk" goes further in depth on this …show more content…
Everett Koop prepared a report on women’s health following an abortion. Upon his findings he co-authored the book “Whatever Happened to the Human Race?’’ and asserted that telling a pregnant woman after abortion that it will only be a few hours or days to feel like a free person denies them their “humanness”. He concluded with “women who have had abortions, their motherliness is very much present even though the child is gone.” A blog entry from www.psychologytoday.com by Susanne Babbel Ph.D, M.F.T., conflicts with National Abortion Federations position that PASS doesn’t exist. She doesn’t deny or endorse the existence of PASS but compares similarities with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She believes that if a woman needs to feel peace again without political agenda, they should be able to receive compassionate, unbiased, supportive and constructive counseling to find peace again. If we’re not going to deny a soldier’s time in war to contributing to their PTSD, we cannot deny an abortion as a traumatic experience in a post abortive woman’s
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