It’s a Woman’s Choice to Have an Abortion
Angel Jones
Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare
AIU Virtual Campus
October 31, 2015

It’s a Woman’s Choice to Have an Abortion Abortion is defined as the termination of a pregnancy before birth using medicine or surgery, resulting in the removal of the fetus and placenta from a woman’s uterus. Because the process of this procedure ultimately results in the death of the fetus, Abortion has been one of the most debated ethical issues of our time and dividing our nation (Raffel, Borgone, D’Ambrosio, Heydon, 2015). The world is divided on this issue with pro-choice supporters on one side, pro-life supporters on the other side, and the government in the middle. The government is trying to eliminate the option of abortion for women, stripping them of their right to make decisions concerning their bodies. Is it fair? Everyone has their own opinion or arguments against abortion, but ultimately it should be the woman who makes the choice whether to have an abortion or not.
There have been many debates on abortion between the pro-life and pro-choice supporters. Among those topics debated has been whether or not abortions are safe, considered murder, or if it’s used as a form of contraception. The pro-life supporters have argued that life begins at the time of conception so abortion is considered murder. The pro-choice supporters fired back stating that nearly all abortions take place in the first trimester, when a fetus cannot exist outside of the mother. Furthermore, if human life occurs at conception, fertilized eggs used for in-vitro fertilization are also human lives and those not implanted are routinely discarded (“10 Arguments”, 2015). Is this murder as well, if not, then how is abortion considered murder?
Another controversial topic for debate regarding abortion has been whether or not abortions are used