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19 March 2015
‘Abortion Distortion’ by Rebecca Ayrey
Rebecca Ayrey’s article ‘Abortion Distortion’ was published on the Nation’s website in December of 2003. Ayrey asserts that the lawmakers who passed the so-called partial birth abortion ban are far removed from women's lives. During Ayrey’s late-term abortion, she realized that thousands of American women are forced to deliver a fetus with severe defects. The law restricts them from having an abortion on requirement that it was necessary to preserve the woman’s life. Only in the event that the physician declares the woman’s physical and mental health in danger is abortion permitted by law. As with the case of Ayrey, there is a probability of late diagnosis of severe type of fetal defects. Such diagnoses exact a painful toll on the woman and the legislations against late term abortion rob them of their right to choice and limit their alternative to risky abortion procedures.
The late term abortion has become a very intriguing argument. What people must understand is that opposing abortion to an unwanted severely defective fetus subordinates the rights and body of the woman to that of the fetus. There are no positive benefits to this. The decision to have a late term abortion does not rely on the decision of the woman alone, but it is backed by a thorough independent diagnosis of a physician. Reversing the ban on late term abortion should be the focus of American legislators to empower women in their choice of life and alternative medical care.
Considering late term abortion as Ayrey terms as painful, intimate, and challenging experience in a female’s life, it is understandable she choose this abortion procedure over the dreaded induction-of-labor abortion. Congress, outspoken supporters of anti-late term abortion point out that all forms of abortion are gruesome methods. Ayrey accuses of