Controversial issues

 

Abortion.

The abortion debate has long been one of the most controversial topics in the United States. It centers on a fundamental disagreement over the question of bodily autonomy, as expressed through a person's right to terminate a pregnancy.

Abortion became legal in every state following the landmark 1973 Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade. Every state has at least one abortion clinic, and in 2017, 18% of pregnancies ended in abortion.

The debate typically splits into two common viewpoints pro-choice and pro-life which both wrangle with religious, moral, and philosophical beliefs.

The pro-life perspective argues that life begins at the moment of conception, and therefore abortion is equivalent to murder. It is seen as an act of violence that can have physical, emotional, and psychological repercussions, even if the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. Pro-life supporters believe that government intervention to prevent abortions is justified.

In my opinion, everyone is free to have or give birth to a life, but in due cases, there are cases of abortions that can be taken into account unplanned pregnancies, for not having a good sex education from an early age since nowadays parents do not sit down with their children to talk about this type of issues that we should implement in schools as one more subject, in order to prevent pregnancies at an early age, the other case is that if an abortion could be done when there is rape, since she lives a lifelong trauma just by remembering something in due course that was forced, it was not of her own free will to get pregnant.