2. What is abortion
• The deliberate
termination ending of
pregnancy”.
(Guernsey, Joan B., Pg.
106)
3. Abortions
• “When you are aborting a
fetus you are killing a
human being”
(www.debates.org, 2011
Juggle).
• Having an abortion is
brutality according to
Catherine Whitney pg. 55.
“Abortions are performed
before twenty weeks,
most in the secondtrimester”(Runkle, Anna.,
Pg 21, 1998).
4. Procedures of Abortions
• The tools that are used to
perform an abortion are
“speculum-a plastic or
metal tool inserted in the
vagina” (Runkle, Anna.
Pg. 26).
• A “Vacuum Aspiration is
used when the women is
7 to 12 weeks pregnant”
(Runkle, Anne pg. 31).
According to Runkle
abortions have some risk
factors.
5. Abortions
• Researchers have found
other reasons why women
have abortions according to
(abortion Overview Series,
Nelson, Joan Pg. 38). Rape
and incest, “about sixteen
thousand women have
abortions because they
were raped or incest”
(Nelson, Joan Pg38)
• Nelson also stated that
women have abortions
because of their life
styles, can’t afford another
child, messed up
relationship, not
responsible, embarrassed, n
ot old enough, have
children already boyfriend
or husband don’t want
children, baby may not be
healthy or because of the
parents (Pg40).
6. Women rights
• It’s a difficult choice for a woman
if they are not ready for
motherhood.
• Mothers right are just as
important as the fetus” and that
abortion is murder” (pg. 8).
• In 1970 abortions were legalized
and it became safer and
accessible to all women according
to Williams.
• “A women’s right to carry a
pregnancy to term is protected
just as her right to have an
abortion is” (William Mary E., Pg.
17)
7. Women Choice
• A women’s choice to
carry a full term
pregnancy is her choice
(women’s choice to have
or not have children is a
right that government
should protect” (William,
Mary E., Pg. 17).
• A woman body belongs to
herself alone” (Lawrence
Lader pg. 25).
• Legal abortion has given
woman a choice.
• “For women and
others, any restrictions on
abortion place women in
extremely difficult
position of being
responsible for a child
they do not want.
Because it is women that
have to bear the
responsibility of children
it is their right to have an
abortion”(Nelson, Joan
pg. 74-75).
8. Prevention
To avoid pregnancy
women should use birthcontrol or sex education
class. (Abortion
Understanding the
Controversy, Guernsey, Ja
Anna B, Pg8)
9. Prevention Cont.
• But back in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries birth
control was not legal, this is
when they started giving
“birth control to teens and
young unmarried adults”
(William, Mary E., Pg. 19).
• Even if you are on birth
control that still don’t make
a woman choice to have or
not have a child according
to Williams Mary, E.
10. Facts
• Like there are “2 percent
of women that
experience depression,
high stress levels, poor
relationship with partner
and low self-esteem”
(Runkle, Anne., Pg. 33).
• “Abortion-related
maternal deaths rose
dramatically from 20 per
1,000 live births in 1965
to between 120 and 150
in the 1980’s.
• Abortion-related deaths
as a percentage of deaths
from all causes rose from
about 20 percent to
nearly 90
percent.”(Lawrence,
Lader., pg. 240, 1995).
11. Teen Pregnancy
• According to Guernsey
there are 400,000 teen
girls that are getting
pregnant and having
abortions.
• “Accounting for roughly
one-fourth of the
approximately 1.6 million
abortions performed each
year” (Guernsey, JoAnn
b.,pg 92.)
12. Work Cited Page
• Abortion Understanding the Controversy, JoAnn Bren
Guernsy, 1993
• Whose Life?, Catherine Whitney, 1991
• In Good Conscience, Ann Runkle, 1998
• A Private Matter: RU 486 and the Abortion Crisis,
Lawrence Lader, 1995
• Abortion Overview Series, Joan Nelson, 1955
• Abortion an Opposing viewpoints, Mary E. Williams,
2007
• www.debates.org, 2011
