Abortions: Restricting them is restricting human rights

• introduction  

Over the past few years, states like Kentucky, Alabama and Florida have been taking extreme measures in making sure abortions are as restricted as possible, which has sparked outrage across the country, sparking protest and demand to abolish these bills hindering a person’s right to do whatever they want with their body. This situation has been going on since the very conception of the pro life vs pro choice debate, as many people who are pro life and conservatives have been battling to make sure abortions are to be as lenient and as unavailable as legally possible, these bills are these said example. 

• The bill
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     Texas is home to one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the u.s, restricting abortions by putting a timer/due time by six weeks, the bill also state that no exceptions, that being rape and other examples of such, will be made, all abortions must follow these laws, if not, the person in question will faced with charges against them including murder over a fetus due to said time limit.

• The consequences

The consequences of these anti abortion bills are unimaginably dire for those who are wishing to get an abortion, as these bills give more linear due dates for the baby, that being the six weeks, which is almost unfair and unreasonable due to the fact that according to research by institutions like the cleveland clinic, they state that a person won’t figure out that their pregnant until three to four weeks and in some cases, they don’t even figure it until the six week limit is up. Unfair time limits for abortions are a very difficult and inhuman problem these people have to go through Especially if the pregnancy is a result of unforeseen events, which these laws don’t make exceptions for in the slightest, they do not make exceptions to those who are a victim of rape, which is a vial and disgusting rule to put in a bill. The physical and psychological trauma a person has to go through will be unimaginable and they will most likely do anything to get the abortion, leading to the likely rise of unsafe abortion, a very dangerous procedure that can put a persons life at risk, almost 25 million unsafe abortions occurs each year, and almost 23,000 deaths occurr each time, not only in American but across the world, however cases of unsafe abortion will potentially rise along with stricter and harsher abortion laws being passed, leading to more injuries and death in the u.s. not only does a bull affect a state it’s made in but it will have a domino effect that will lead to most states adopting similar laws as well, leading to said events to occur. A dire situation that most people are in right now, however it’s not truly a hopeless one 

• What we can do

People should have the right to do what they want to their body and they have a right to get an abortion! So, how do we help? Spread the word, protest about these laws, make sure that they don’t continue to spread across the u.s, talk to your governors, your senators about protecting the laws that were already established by the Roe V. Wade ruling, which protects all woman’s rights to an abortion, regardless of time and free of any interference. It’s the time to act for the people, their rights and their free will and not let these laws affect anymore lives!

 Reference

Pregnancy: Am I pregnant. The Cleveland clinic. (n.d.). Retrieved April 1, 2020, from https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/9709-pregnancy-am-i-pregnant#:~:text=Despite%20its%20early%20appearance%20in,for%20a%20positive%20pregnancy%20test.

 

Unsafe abortions . Wikipedia . (n.d.). Retrieved April 20, 2022, from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_abortion#:~:text=Unsafe%20abortions%20result%20in%20complications,all%20deaths%20during%20this%20period).