Pro Choice Abortion Facts

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About 1 million abortions happen each year (¨20 remarkable pro-choice abortion facts”), that's 1 million women choosing to give up their baby. The women know what she is doing so why should she be judged for it? Abortions have been a choice for a long time however, people want abortions banned now. Pro- Life protesters say it's murder or that their killing God's children, but shouldn’t it be her choice? Women should have the right to choose to terminate a pregnancy.
One of the most debated reasons that people want to ban abortion is religion. A recent poll states that “over 75% of the white pro-life population are protestant, 64% of hispanic pro life population are protestant, and 58% of the black pro life population are protestant” (5 Facts
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78% of pregnancies are unplanned, 9% of that is teen pregnancy("MIT Pro-Choice -- Facts”). Most teenagers are not physically or mentally ready to give birth. Of the other 69% of the unplanned pregnancies, 64% are using contraception to avoid getting pregnant (MIT Pro-Choice -- Facts). Unplanned pregnancies are very common, every year 14,000 of those pregnancies are from rape or inscest in the U.S. alone ("MIT Pro-Choice -- Facts”). If abortions were to be illegalized 14,000 women would have to give birth to an unwanted child. Most pregnancies are a mistakes so we should definitely not ban …show more content…
Today in most states the law is you can no longer have an abortion after 26 weeks. A 2012 study from the Center for Disease Control states that 91.3 % of abortions happen within the first trimester, which is within 12 weeks. Studies show that the fetus's body is almost fully formed at week 12. (“Pro-Life: Abortion Controversy”). While it is true after the first trimester the baby is alive, that 9.7% that has not aborted their baby yet might not even know their pregnant and if they do know, they're probably debating what to do with the baby. About 2% of abortions happen after 21 weeks ("MIT Pro-Choice -- Facts”). So most of the 9.7% get rid of the fetus in the second trimester. In most cases, abortion is not murder because the fetus is not alive