Persuasive Essay

Thesis Statement

Abortion is a menace rather than a medical facility

Introduction

Abortion today has become a very common medical procedure in the United States. Statistics have showed that nearly more than 40% of women will somehow end their pregnancy at some time in their reproductive lives, or some may even choose not to give birth throughout their lives. The U.S government legalized abortion in the year 1973, and now nearly 1.2 abortion related activities are performed each year, and surprisingly it is increasing rapidly.

Main Body

Today, people have become so selfish that they are not ready to accept the fact that abortion is more on an unethical side rather than just a relief from the problems of pregnancy. It is not just the ethics that has come in to action when we talk about abortion; there are several other diseases involved that affect the woman who goes through the process of abortion. The recent statistics have shown that the abortion rate which was at its peak in the 1980's had dropped down and had become stagnant till 2002. But the indicators have shown that the abortion rate had increased from the year 2003. The reason for abortion is unknown, but the after affects of it are very well known and are told before this abortion takes place.

In the United States: In 2003, about 16 women for every 1,000 women aged 15-44 years had an abortion, and for every 1,000 live births, about 241 abortions were performed, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the past 20 years, considerable progress has been made in the technology used for second-trimester abortion. But with this advancement in technology, the need for abortion has also raised. Women have started to take more advantage out of the abortion system then they were taking in the past. It has been witnesses that when technology grows, so does the use of it grows, but unfortunately with an advancement in this part of the field, where improvement was meant to provide safety to the women, women started to abuse this system.

No civilized society, so far has given permission to intentionally harm any human without any punishment, abortion is considered as inhumane. Adoption is an alternative to abortion, and it has the same results, and with as many as 1.5 million Americans who are looking forward to have a child, there is no possibility that there would be no one to take care of it. Once the child is adopted there is a very high probability that it will go to a family who would take very good care of it. If people can't really take of the child, they should give birth to the child and hand it over to the authority who can take good care of it and hand it over to a family who wanted to have a child but couldn't have it because of medical reasoning. In this way, the ethical standards of the society can be followed and a number of women ...