Women's Reproductive Rights

Reproductive healthcare decisions, like all healthcare decisions, should be left between the doctor and their patients. The only time the government should step in is in cases of malpractice and should never get to decide what an individual does with their own body especially when the patient's life is at risk. When talking about legislating healthcare procedures, it is done in a way where you are not putting people at risk by denying them life saving or quality of life care. It seems like a simple process but healthcare is complex and many variables play a role in any medical decisions. This is why certain issues like abortion can get messy as you need to consider the health of the carrier and the health of the unborn child.

Early Term Abortions

The most common abortion is medication abortion (the pill, plan B) where in the earliest weeks of pregnancy a carrier will take a pill that stops the fetus from growing followed by a heavy flow. This helps people who are either too young or are unable to support a family. Banning the pill ends up hurting people, especially women, either from having a child at too young of an age or through financial hardship for those who aren't ready to start a family. It is also tramatic for victims of rape who would have to carry their rapist's child to term.

Late Term Abortions

• In cases where the carrier's life is in danger and the child is non-viable then an abortion is necessary to save a life.

• In cases where the carrier's life is in danger and the child is still viable then the decision should be left to the carrier to decide since it is their life that is at risk.

These two cases are the most common reasons why people seek abortions when in the third-trimester. So if third-trimester abortions are banned across the board then people's lives are put at risk often with a baby who has died in the womb. This also doesn't even consider that banning abortions tends not to work. When abortions are banned people will take it in their own hands to abort a fetus through harmful alternatives which can also lead to harm to the carrier.

Nonsense

• Women seek abortions for fun or don't think hard on the decision they are making

  • Abortion, especially late term, is a very traumatic experience for the carrier and partner and is often necessary to save the carrier's life. Well intentioned programs that require education on abortions only add to this trauma. The reason for this is because these programs don't care about why someone is seeking abortion. This then leads to couples who are trying to start a family but experienced a miscarriage who now have to sit through these required programs before they can get an abortion to save the health of the carrier adding to the trauma of already miscarrying.

• Banning abortion works

  • Banning abortions does not work. All banning abortions would do would push people to seek abortions through dangerous means which can lead to incomplete abortions, haemorrhage, infection, and death. If you really want to reduce the number of abortions then push for sex educations which teach the importance of contraceptives. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/abortion