Should Abortion Be Legal - 1545 Words

J.K. Rowling once said, â€Å"Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.† When thinking of someone’s life the outcomes do not come to mind until they are played out in the real world. Even though people cannot be present to claim their right they should always be taken in mind. When talking about abortion the fetus plays a big part since it’s what is lost and what is causing much pain and changes .Loss of rights, psychological damage, taxes , and adoption should be taken in mind when discussing rather abortion should be illegal. To illustrate, â€Å"abortion is an issue that involves competing rights† since the mother is thought of having the right to not be pregnant but the fetus has the right of living a life and not to be killed.†¦show more content†¦The nation’s teen abortion rate has dropped to its lowest level since the procedure became legal, according to an analysis by Guttmacher Institute. Abortion rates are lower for y ounger than for older teens. Although the abortion rate is higher among older teens, the proportion of pregnancies that end in abortion is twice as high among those younger than 15 as it is among their older peers (Kost, 2014). For teens, abortion may mean never being able to have children. Abortion is an identified risk factor in breast cancer (Brind 1996). However, there are physical, social and psychological consequences of abortion, and these may be worse for teens. It’s known that one hundred sixty percent of women who have aborted are more likely to be hospitalized for psychiatric treatment than delivering women, after ninety days of aborting. A study of post-abortion done after eight weeks after showed that forty-four percent complained of nervous disorder, thirty-six percent have experienced sleep disturbance, thirty-one had regrets about their decision, and eleven percent had been prescribed psychotropic medicine by their family doctor (Eliot, 2011). Post-abortion women tend to use a coping mechanism where denial is mused for a long period of time before seeking psychiatric help. The repressed feeling can lead psychosomatic illness and psychiatric or behavioral in other areas of women life. Many women are