Sunday, October 30, 2011

The Right to Choose

http://www.suntimes.com/opinions/7426365-474/editorial-exercising-right-not-to-choose-abortion.html,  In this suntimes editorial, the editorialist stresses that he/she is pro choice. This author believes that women should have the right to choose to have an abortion or not to, and that what ever the woman decides is right. The editorialist describes a decision a Catholic woman made to keep her conjoined twins rather than getting an abortion, because of her religion. Although it could be suggested to have an abortion, the editorial supports the woman's decision because it is her life and her twins' lives she is making the decision for. The editorialsist believes that woman should have the right to decide if an abortion is right for them.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Protecting Lives?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/opinion/playing-politics-with-womens-lives.html?scp=3&sq=abortion&st=Search  According to an editorialist in the New York times, making laws against women getting abortions may endanger their lives. The new law, The Protective Life Act, allows hospitals to refuse abortions to women who's lives are at stake, because of their religous beliefes. According to the editorialist, this is not okay, because hospitals are allowing their pateints to die rather than do everything they can to save the women's lives.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Abortion: Against the Constitution.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/16/abortion-isnt-painless/
This Editorial from the Washington Times shows another extreme view of the controversy of abortion. The author takes a stand that abortion should be prohibited because it is unconstitutional and unmoral. The author adresses the fact that a baby can feel intense pain of an abortion after twenty weeks of pregnancy. According to some law makers, this is considered murder or torture of a human being, which the Constitution prohibits by prohibiting "cruel and unusual punishment." The author of the editorial believes laws should be passed to prohibit abortions, and he or she agrees with law makers who work hard to make abortions as unusual as possible.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Freedom of Abortion?

   The topic of abortion has been a country wide debate for years. Fourty years ago, the supreme court made abortion legal in the Roe v. Wade case. This gave women and their families the right to decide if they wanted a baby or not. Many people in the United States support this, but others are trying to create laws that make abortion harder to go through with, especially for lower income families or women. According to the article, politicians need to stop trying to make it difficult for women to have abortions, because it should ultimately be the woman's freedom to make her own decision.
http://www.aclu.org/reproductive-freedom/abortion