ABORTIONS

Why Government Should Not Pay For Abortions

Why Government Should Not Pay For Abortions

Introduction

Abortion is a sensitive issue. People hold good faith views on both sides. It is one of many examples where government is not the solution. Government can't possibly make it right. We need fewer laws, less government, less bureaucracy, and more liberty. Government should stay out of abortion matters. Government staying out of it also means the state should not fund abortions. It is particularly harsh to force someone who believes that abortion is murder to pay for another's abortion through taxes. Government should neither restrict nor pay for abortions. It should stay out of it, and stop wasting our tax dollars.

Discussion

Medically speaking, an abortion is a procedure that removes a pregnancy by emptying the contents of a woman's uterus. There are medical and surgical abortions; most abortions happen in the first trimester, within the first 12 to 14 weeks of pregnancy. Medical abortions are a newer invention and are less invasive. The only marketed medical abortion product is Mifiprex, popularly referred to as RU-486, which is prescribed by a doctor and requires a follow-up appointment, but can be administered at home and usually happens around the eighth week of pregnancy. Regardless, surgical abortion remains the most prevalent in nations where abortions are legal, 87 % in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The third type is unsafe methods such as drinking turpentine or bleach, inserting herbal preparations, or inserting foreign objects such as chicken bones or sticks. Worldwide, these abortions account for 48 percent of all abortions, thus a higher percentage than any other form. Surgical abortions are either the common, manual vacuum aspiration or other variations involving dilation of the cervix either dilation and curettage (D&C), or dilation and extraction (D&X). The latter is sometimes referred to as partial-birth abortion, so called because the procedure requires the mother's uterus to contract and then expunge the fetus. In instances when the fetus is too large to be expelled otherwise, or because the doctor feels the need for greater precision, a doctor might induce labor and thus have the woman “birth” the fetus. These later-term abortions are often because a fetus died in uterus (miscarried), or because a mother chose to terminate the pregnancy due to the detection of a fetal abnormality. These procedures account for about 1 percent of abortions and ...