Abortion
Abortion has been widely known, practiced and debated since ancient times. But, abortion in the United States has been around for many, many years. Teens, young women, and even older women get abortions because it might not be the right time and the right place to raise a child in their life, maybe not want a child, or has to get an abortion. I believe that the option og getting an abortion should be out of the question. That should't be a thought that even comes into your mind. You should think about all the options before you take that big step to kill the living person inside of you.
In 1969, people were beginning to talk more openly about abortions and womens rights to persue them. Opinion poles were held and a large amount of women favored that changes in abortion lawas, changes that would make it easier for all women to obtain abortion. Some women feel that is they want an abortion they should be obligated to get one. They probably dont realize the affects of getting an abortion and the complications that might occur after getting it or during the procedure.
For example, one possible outcomeof abortion related infection is sterility. Researchers have reported that 3 to 5 percent fo aborted women are left inadvertently sterile as a result of the operations latent morbidity. The risk of sterilty is even greater for women who are infected with a disease at the time of the abortion.
In addition to the risk of sterilty, women who are aquire post-abortal infections are 5 to 8 times more likely to experience ectopic pregnanices. Between 1970- 1983, the rate of ectopic pregnanices in USA has risen 4 fold. Twelve percent of all maternal deaths due to ectopic pregnancy. Other countries which have regalized abortion have seen the same dramatic increase in ectopic pregnancies.
Cervical damage is another leading cause of long-term complications following abortion. Normally the cervix is rigid and tightly closed. In order ro preform an abortion, the cervix must be stretched open with a great deal of forse. Diring this forced dialation there is almost always causes microscopic tearing of the cervix muscles and occasionlly severe rippinh of the uterine wall as well.
Having sex is a big responsibility. Boys and girls, men and women make the decision one thier own to determine if they are ready to take that giant leap and commit to their partners. But, they might not think about aftermath. Considering an abortion could have many affects on the women's health durign or after getting an abortion. Headaches, stomach pain, and sterilization. There might be the chance that you could have some complications while you are recieving the abortion from the doctor that you have chosen to perform this operation.
Even though there is a small ratio of women that have their death's caused by getting an abortion, you might be that 5% that's death is caused from getting an abortion. According to the best record study of deaths following pregnacy and abortion, a 1997 government funded study in Finland, women who carry thier pregnacies full term. Women to carry to term are only half as likely to die as women who were not pregnant.
The leading causes of abortion are realated maternal deaths within a week of the surgery are hemmorrhage, infection, embolsim, anethesia, and undiagnosed ectopic pregnancies. Legal abortion is reported as the fifth leading cause of inaternal death in the United States, though in fact it is recognized that most abortion related deaths are not offically reported as such. There are other things that you could be done other then getting an abortion. Giving birth to the baby and keeping it, giving birth to the baby and giving it up for adoptio, or the main thing you could do to prevent you from even thinking about gettting an abortion is abstinence. Many girls feel pressured to have sex with a young male, and sometimes they don't use protection, and they get themselves pregnant.
Many women get abortions. Teenage girls, young women, and even older women get abortions. they think that it isn't the right time and in some cases it isn't but you shouldn't kill a soon to be living human being that is growing up inside of you. Getting abortions just aren't done in the United States; they are worldwide procedures that are done everyday. There isn't just one race that gets abortions more then any other race: it is all spread out evenly amoung women of color. All ages get abortions. It just might not be the right time to raise a baby in the persons life. All over the world women feel that getting abortion is the best route to go, but they don't think about the consequences after getting it done.
I was reading an article on the Internet about a women that had an abortion, she had went to a clinc with her mother a couple of hours away from her home to get an abortion. When she had went to the clinic she had told her mother to wait in the waiting room or go back to the hotel because she had wanted to do this all by herself. While being in the hospital room waiting for the doctor she was scared and lonely. When the doctor had come in he had told her what he was going to do. About thirty minutes later he was injecting her with a needle and a syringe, for her baby that was inside of her to be killed. Later on that night she went into the hospital bathroom to have a bowel movement. When she had looked down into the toilet to see what she had felt hanging from her legs, she saw her dead baby dangling by its umbilical cord. She started screaming for a nurse to come, and a roomate got one. When the nurse came into the bathroom she had told her that she wasn't going to be able to do anything until she passes out the placenta. About 2 hours later it was finally over. the nurse finally took away her dead baby. She now despices men because she realized that she shouldn't have gotten an abortion. It affected her life dramatically and it is guilt and sadness that she carries with her everyday.
Many girls that believe abortion is the answer are wrong. There is much more they can do. Giving birth to the baby and giving he/she away to a loving home, or keep the baby and care and show love for it in the best possible way. Sure, caring for a baby is hard work butt hat is a situation you got yourself into. Having a baby is a joy us event. It might be really hard, btu if you keep your life together you can do it and succeed.
You would be better off if you gave birth to the baby taht you and your partner conceived and raise it with or without each other, or give it up for adoption. Either way killing a baby is not the right thing to do. Being a mother or a father is a much greater gift in life.
The best way you can deal with getting yourself pregnant is to talk to your parents, go to the doctors, or a person you could really trust and confide in. If they truly and honestly love and care about you they should support you and teh decision you chose to make. But, you should always consider the aftermath of it all.
Many people support abortion. I am against it. I don't believe abortion should even be a thought that comes into your mind. I think and believe that if you made the decision to have intercourse with your partner, the you have to deal with the consequences afterwards. being a father or a mother has its challenges but it is all worth it in the end.
I feel that many doctors do this procedure because they're in it mostly for the money, but also because that is what their patients want. I dont think that abortion should be done in a hospital, or i really feel that it shouldn't be done anywhere.
Abortion is a worldwide procedure. There is approximately 46 million abortions per year and approximately 126,000 per day. 78% of all abortions are obtained in developing countries and 22% occur in developed coutries. About 26 million women obtain legal abortions each year, while an additional 20 million abortions are obtained in countries where it is restricted or prohibited by law. Worldwide, the lifetime average is about 1 per women. In the United States there are a 1.37 million abortions performed per year and about 3,700 abortions per day. 52% of all abortions occur before the 9th week of pregnancy, 25% happen between the 9th ad 10th week, 12% happen between the 11th and 12th week, 67% happen between the 13th and 15th week, 4% happen between the 16th and 20th week and 1% of abortions (16,450/yr.) happen after the 20th week of pregnancy. An estimated 43% of all women will have at least 1 abortion be the time they are 45 years old. 47% od all abortions are performed on women who have had one before. 48% of all abortion facilities provide services after the 12th week of pregnacy, 9 in 10 managed care plans routinely covered abortion or provide limited coverage. About 14% of all abortions in the United States are paid for with public funds, virtually of which are state funds, 16 states (CA, CT, HI, ED, IL, MA, MD, MD, MN, MT, NJ, NM, OR, VT, WA, and WV) pay for abortions for some poor women.
Researchers investing post-abortion reactions report only one positive emotion: relief. This emotion is understandable, especially in light of the fact that the majority of aborting women report feeling under intense pressure to "get it over with."
Temporary feelings of relief are frequently followed by a period psychiatrsits identify as emotional " paralysis," or post abortion "numbness." Like shell-shocked soldiers, these aborted women are unable to express or even feel their own emotions. Their focus is primarily on having survived the ordeal, and they are at least temporarily out of touch with their feelings.
Studies within the first few weeks after the abortion have found that between 40 and 60 percent of women questioned report negative reactions. Within 8 weeks after their abortions, 55% expressed guilt , 44%complained of nervous disorders, 36% had experienced sleep disturbances, 31% had regrets about their decision, and 11% had been prescribed psychotropic medicine by their family doctor.
In one stucy of 500 aborted women, researchers found that 50 percent expressed negative feelings, and up to 10 percent were classified as having developed " serious psychiatric complications." Thirty to fifty percent of aborted women report experiencing sexual dysfunctions, of both short and long duration, beginning immmediatly after their abortions. These problems may include one or more of the following: loss of pleasure from intercourse, increased pain, and aversion to sex and/or males in general, or the development of a promiscuous life-style.
Up to 33 percent of aborted women develop an intense longing to become pregnant again in order to "make up" for the lost pregnancy, with 18 percent succeeding within one year of the abortion. Unfortunately, may women who succeed at obtaining their "wanted" replacement pregnancies discover that the some problems which pressured them into having their abortion still exist, and so they end up feeling "forced" into yet another abortion.
In a study of teenage abortion patients, half sufferd a worsening of psychosocial functioning within 7 months after the abortion. The immediate impact appeared to be greatest on the patients who were under 17 years of age and for those with previous psychosocial problems. Symptoms include: self- reproach, depression, social regression, withdrawal, obsession with need to become pregnant again, and hasty marriages.
The best available data indicates that on average there is a five to ten year period of denial during which a women who was traumatized, have failed to reach a true state of "closure" with regard to their experiences. Repressed feelings of any sort can result in psychological and behavioral difficulties, which exhibit themselves in other areas of one's life. An increasing number of counselors are reporting that unacknowleged post- abortion destress is the causative factor in many of their female patients, even though their patients have come to them seeking therapy for seemingly unrelated problems.
Other women who would otherwise appear to have been satisfied with their abortion experience, are reported to enter into emotional crisis decades later with the onset of menopause or after their youngest child leaves home. Numerous researchers have reported that post abortion crises are precipitated by the anniversary date of the abortion or the unachieved "due date." These emotional crises may appear to be inexplicable and short- lived, occuring for many years until a connection is finally established during counseling sessions.
A 5 year retrospective study in two canadian provinces found that 25% of aborted women made visits to psuchiatrists as compared to 3% of the control group.
Women who have undergone post- abortion counseling report over 100 major reactions to abortion among the most frequently reported are: depression, loss of self-esteem, self- destruction behavior, sleep disorders, memory loss, sexual dysfunction, chronic problems with relationships, dramatic personality changes, anxiety attacks, guilt and remorse, difficulty grieving, increased tendency toward violence, chronic crying difficulty concentrating, flashbacks, loss of intrest in previously enjoyed acticites and people, and difficulty bonding with later children.
Among the most worrisome of these reactions is the increase of self- destructive behavior among aborted women. In a survey of over 100 women who had suffered from post- abortion trauma, fully 80 percent expressed feelings of self- hatred." In the same study, 49 percent reported drug abuse and 39 percent began to use or increased their use of alcohol. Approximately 14 percent described themselves as having become " addicted" or "alcoholic" after their abortions. In addition, 60 percent reported suicidal ideation with 28 percent actually attempting suicide, of which half attemped suicide two or more times.
Abortion is a public health issue. In 1973 the United States Supreme Court struck down every federal state and local law regulating or restricting the practice of abortion. This action was based on the premise that the states no longer had any need to regulate abortion "relatively safe."Therefore the justices concluded, it is unconstitutional toprevent pysicians from providing abortions as a "health" service to women.
National abortion policy is built upon this "fact" that abortion is a "safe" procedure. If this "fact" is found to be false, then national policy toward abortion must be re-evaluated. Indeed, if it is found that abortion may actually be dangerous to health of women, there is just cause for governments to regulate or prohibit abortion, in order to protect their citizens. This is especially true since over 1.5 million women undergo abortions each year. Since courts ruling in 1973, there have been many studies into the aftereffects of abortion. Their combined results paint a haunting picture of physical and psychological damage among millions of women who have undergone abortions.
National statistics on abortion show that 10% of women undergoing induced abortion suffer from immediate, complications of which one-fifth (2%) were considered major. Over one hundred potential complications have been associated with induced abortion. "minor" complications include: minor infections, bleeding, fevers, chronic abdominal pain, gastro- intestinal disturbances, vomiting, and Rh sensitization. The nine most common "major" complications which are infection, excessive bleeding, embolism, ripping or perforation of the uterus, anethesia complications, convulsions, hemorrhage, cervical injury, and endotoxic shock.
In a series of 1,182 abortions which occured under closely regulated hospital conditions, 27 percent of the patients acquired post-abortion infection lasting 3 days or longer. While the immediate complications of abortion are usually treatable, these complications frequently lead to long-term reproductive damage of much more serious nature.
There are many risks when it comes to abortions. The risk of breast cancer almost doubles after getting an abortion, and rises even further with two or more abortions. Women with one abortion face a 2.3 relative risk of cancer, compared to non-aborted women with two or more abortions face a 4.92 relative risk of ovarian and liver cancer have also been linked to single and multiple abortions.
Between 2 and 3% of all aortion patients may suffer perforation of their uterus, yet most of these injuries will remain undiagnosed and untreated unless laproscopic visulization is preformed. The risk of uterine perforation is increased for women who have previously given birth and for those who recieve general anesthesia at the time of the abortion. Uterine damage may result in complications in later pregnancies and may eventually evolve into problems which require a hysterectomy, which itself may result in a number of additional complications including osteoporsis
Significant cervical lacerations requiring sutures occur in at least one percent of first trimester abortions, lesser lacerations or micro fractions, which would normally not be treated may also be a result in long termreproductive damage. Latent post-abortion cerivcal damage ay result in subsequent cervical incompetence, premature delivery, and complications of labor. The risk of teenagers, for second trimester abortions, and womenn practitioners fail to use laminaria or dilations of the cervix.
Having abortion among this young generation, where sex is thought about alot by young kids, young adults and even older men and women as well is severly bad. Some of today's people aren't ready to have sex with somebody else, they are still immature and not ready for that responsiblity and commitment. People don't think about the consequences after having sex with the partner they have chosen. One of which the women may get pregnant. What is she suppose to do if she can't care for the baby? A choice is that she could end up killing the baby by getting an abortion. Women, especially, think that it wont affect them in the long run. But. it does. It is most likely that you will regret it in the future, and wished that you had made another decision then getting the abortion. You may have the thought that always comes to you mind, Why did I kill a soon to be living human being?