THESIS STATEMENT: Legalization of Abortion must be implemented by every Government

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More British National Abortion is illegal in The professional Payne, D. (1999). More British Abortions for Irish
Abortions for Library of Ireland except when a researcher of the Women. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 318(7176), 77.
Irish Women Medicine pregnant woman is current study gathered Retrieved from:
judged by physicians to its data from Ireland's https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.318.7176.77a
be suicidal. According to Office for National
early estimates for 1998 Statistics to prove the
soon to be released by study's theory that
Ireland's Office for Ireland needs to legalize
National Statistics, more abortion in the country.
than 6000 Irish women The researcher then
are therefore now found that Irish women
traveling each year to would risk a long
Britain for induced journey to the
abortion, the largest neighboring country of
number of such women Britain just to undergo
thus far recorded in legal and safe abortion
Ireland. However, Tony since their country is
O'Brien, head of the Irish still prohibiting the
Family Planning legalization of abortion.
Association, believes that This goes to show that
it is not so much that the legalizing abortion in the
abortion rate is rising, country would save
but that a larger unprepared mothers
percentage of women from long travels, and
traveling to the UK for could undergo an
abortion are telling abortion without the
people about their fear of violating the law.
journey and abortion. The theory that abortion
 This new liberalism is would be good to be
reflected in an Irish implemented in the
newspaper poll released country of Ireland was
last week which shows proven true. This study
that 59% of Irish adults correlates with that of
over age 18 years, and Tyrer (1985), who found
86% of adults under age that legalizing abortion
25 years, approve of would be highly
couples having sex beneficial to women,
before marriage. especially when it
Meanwhile, the comes to their health.
government of Ireland
has yet to publish the
report of its working
group on abortion, which
it promised to do last
summer. O'Brien
condemns the recent
Irish governments for
failing to amend or
repeal the country's
criminal law against
abortion.

Health National The abolition of legal The researcher for Plan Tyrer, L. B. (1985). Health benefits of legal abortion: an
Benefits of Library of abortion in the US would Parent Revolution based analysis. Planned parenthood review, 5(2), 24–27.
Legal Abortion: Medicine seriously threaten the its conclusion for the Retrieved from:
an Analysis health, and even the present study on the https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12340404/
lives, of women and data among the United
children. The States of America's
complication rates cases on pregnancy,
for illegal abortions, unsafe abortion, and
most of which were safe abortion. The
performed by researcher found that
unskilled unsafe abortion
practitioners in administered by
unsafe settings, unskilled physicians
were much higher caused higher
than the rates for complications than that
legal abortion now. of legal abortion done
Complications were
by licensed
related to ineffective
gynecologists
or unsafe methods,
specialization in that
Sepsis, particularly
particular field. The
with the bacterium
"Clostridium researcher also stated
prefringens," which that if the United States
causes gas of America does not
gangrene, was a practice legal abortion,
major problem that many women would
has virtually suffer from health
disappeared. Legal complications that
abortion also has a unsafe abortion
lower risk of death methods may bring. This
than does goes to show then that
childbearing. Using legalizing abortion in a
even conservative country would not only
data, the allow women to legally
comparison of abort, but it could also
mortality rates save them from death
reveals that
altogether. Kahan,
terminating a
Baker & Freeman (1975)
pregnancy through
also declared in their
legally induced
study that legalized
abortion is 7 times
abortion lessens the
safer than carrying morbidity rate caused
the pregnancy to by abortion.
term. Legal abortion
also results in low
morbidity rates. As
legal abortions
became widely
available, the
numbers of women
treated for septic
abortion
complications in
emergency rooms
and hospitals
decreased
markedly. If
abortions were
again made illegal,
the number of illegal
abortions in the US
would probably
increase from fewer
than 20,000 at
present to more
than 1,000,000 per
year. Because illegal
abortion may carry
a risk of death as
much as 30 times
that of legal
abortion, deaths to
women of
reproductive age in
 the US would be
expected to
increase.

Abortion: a National Abortion is an issue of The researchers from Kunins, H., & Rosenfield, A. (1991). Abortion: a legal
Legal and Library of great public concern and Annu Rev Public Health and public health perspective. Annual review of public
Public Health Medicine debate. The majority of based their conclusions health, 12, 361–382. Retrieved from:
Perspective US citizens support a on the data that were https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.pu.12.050191.002045
woman's right to choose, gathered from other
but it has not always countries which had
been that way. Abortion also legalized abortion,
was made legal in 1973 same with the United
but women have been States of America. They
abortions for hundreds of found that the advanced
years before that. The technologies that were
history of abortion is developed over the
therefore a history of years made it easier for
women breaking the law hospitals to
and subjecting accommodate abortion
themselves to great safely, and without any
physical and social risk. coimplications on
Abortion law in the US women's health.
has been changed mostly Legalizing abortion in a
by the Supreme Court. country also allows the
After Roe v Wade (1973) government to fund
there were many other hospitals the needed
cases brought before the money for the facilities
Court involving federal that should be needed
and state funding of to practice the safe
abortion, father's rights, abortion that every
parental consent for woman, who is not
minors, and many other ready to become a
 finer points of law and mother, would need.
policy regarding Although there are still
abortion. Abortion is some skeptical people
commonly practiced in who viewed abortion as
many developing a sin, the safety of the
countries including the mother should still
ones where it is illegal. come first. Tyrer (1985)
The data collected from also came up with the
these countries gives same conclusion that
researchers here a great legalized abortion
deal of information on allows adept facilitators
the clinical and to conduct or perform
sociological aspects of abortions on women.
abortion. Medical
technology has
broadened the scope of
abortion by introducing
medication to induce
abortion such as RU486.
Abortion is no longer an
exclusively surgical
procedure. Since it can
performed now with a
pill it will be almost
impossible to regulate it
as strictly as before.

The Effect of National In order to examine the The researchers of the Kahan, R. S., Baker, L. D., & Freeman, M. G. (1975). The
Legalized Library of effect of legalized current research paper effect of legalized abortion on morbidity resulting from
Abortion on Medicine abortion on the conducted their own criminal abortion. American journal of obstetrics and
Morbidity complications of criminal study in Atlanta, gynecology, 121(1), 114–116.
Resulting from abortion, a surveillance Georgia to provide https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9378(75)90985-0
Criminal system was established insights on the effects of
Abortion at a large urban hospital legalized abortion. They
in Atlanta, Georgia. have eventually found
Between 1969 and 1973, and concluded that ever
legally induced abortions since legal abortion was
at this hospital increased implemented, women
logarithmically from 8 to who engage in illegal
498 per quarter year. The and unsafe abortion
number of women decreased dramatically.
admitting to attempts at The availability of safe
illegal abortion abortion also lessened
decreased significantly, the death caused by
but the decline began abortion since there are
only after three years of already facilities,
increasing numbers of technologies, and more
legal abortions. A slight materials needed to be
decrease in the number provided by the
of septic "spontaneous" government itself. The
abortions also occurred. only downside to
Making legal abortion legalized abortion would
services available can be when the facilities
result in a decrease in needed for such an
morbidity associated operation became
with illegal abortions, but insufficient many would
the availability of legal resort to what the
abortion must be researchers called
sufficiently broad to criminal abortion. This
obviate having to resort study was also
to criminal means. correlated with the one
conducted by Kunins &
Rosenfield (1991) who
said that the availability
 of facilities and
technologies for
abortion assists women
to have a safe abortion.

The Public National Beneficial effects of the The researchers for the Tietze C. (1984). The public health effects of legal
Health Effects Library of progressive liberalization study found that there abortion in the United States. Family planning
of Legal Medicine of abortion laws in the are multiple positive perspectives, 16(1), 26–28. Retrieved from:
Abortion in the US since 1967 are effects of the https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6714378/
United States presented. The total legalization of abortion
number of pregnancy- in a country. The
related deaths averted by researchers utilized the
legal abortions appears data from the United
to be on the order of States of America, which
1500. The number of life- helped them conclude
threatening, but not numerous good effects
fatal, complications that legal abortion
averted probably brought about. Legal
reached several 10s of abortion allows women
thousands. Another who are not yet ready
beneficial effect of the both physically,
liberalization of abortion mentally, and financially
laws has been that to raise a child to give
women with medical their pregnancy up
contraindications to without risking their
continued pregnancy, lives. Legalized abortion
especially poor and in countries allow safe
minority women, now abortion to prevent any
can receive therapeutic child to be born with
abortions. A 3rd positive physical or mental
effect of abortion defects since the
legalization has been the process now undergoes
possibility of preventing a more organized and
the birth of infants with safe process. Most
major physical or mental importantly, the
defects. In many cases legalization of abortion
fetal defects can now be proved beneficial since
detected with certainity the death rate caused
or near-certainty by a by abortion decreased.
variety of methods. At This conclusion is quite
present, the number of similar to that of Kahan,
abortions performed on Baker, and Freeman
the basis of prenatal (1975) who found that
diagnosis is quite small-- legal abortion lessens
in 1982 it may have been the morbidity rate of
on the order of 1500 or women by abortion.
1/10 of 1% of all US legal
abortions that year.