It's not just Democrate Vs. Republic or Pro-choice Vs Pro-Life

The United States abortion-rights movement (also known as the United States pro-choice movement) is a sociopolitical movement in the United States supporting the view that a woman should have the legal right to an elective abortion, meaning the right to terminate her pregnancy, and is part of a broader global abortion-rights movement.

• Currently abortion is legal at all levels in United states but may be restricted by the states to varying degrees.

People who are anti-choice oppose abortion. Many of them do not believe that a woman should be able to choose abortion under any circumstances, even if she has been raped or if carrying the pregnancy to term may put her life in danger. Also, many anti-choice people do not believe that women should be allowed to use birth control.

1. Anti-choice people often call themselves “pro-life.” The only life many of them are concerned with is the life of the fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus. They are much less concerned about the life of women who have unintended pregnancies or the welfare of children after they are born. In fact, many anti-choice people who call themselves “pro-life” support capital punishment and oppose child welfare legislation
2. Most anti-choice people also believe in overturning the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. In that decision, the court ruled that a woman’s right to choose is protected by the Constitution and that abortion is legal throughout the United States.

A9 key point in abortion rights in the United States was the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which struck down most state laws restricting abortion, thereby decriminalizing and legalizing elective abortion in a number of states.
There is the movement to extend rights to the pre-born at the expense of restricting the rights of pregnant women, the pro-life movement. Within this group many argue that human life begins at conception.

• As with any other pregnancy that was unplanned, the woman’s problem is not that she’s pregnant.  The main problem heaped upon the mother after the trauma of rape is how others think of her and treat her.  Rape and incest victims have always unjustly been victims of the “Scarlet Letter Syndrome,” but `treating’ this problem of societal perspective with abortion is like saying that the woman is a hopeless case or “damaged goods.”  Former rape counselor Sandra Mahkorn, M.D., says that “The central issue then should not be whether we can abort all pregnant sexual assault victims, but rather an exploration of the things we can change in ourselves, and through community education, to support such women through their pregnancies.  The `abortion is the best solution’ approach can only serve to encourage the belief that sexual assault is something for which the victim must bear shame ― a sin to be carefully concealed.”4

• What is more caring ― to sneer at a rape victim’s problem and tell her to “just get rid of it,” or to respect the life within her and give her the real help she needs?

Pro-choice or Abortion-rights advocates argue that whether or not a pregnant woman continues with a pregnancy should be her personal choice, as it involves her body, personal health, and future. More broadly, abortion-rights advocates frame their arguments in terms of individual liberty, reproductive freedom, and reproductive rights.

       Finally, how many people believe that there should be capital punishment for rapists?  Obviously, a very small minority.  If the majority of people do not favor capital punishment for the obviously guilty rapist, why then should they favor it for the innocent child, who has committed no crime whatsoever?

1. A national Wirthlin poll found that the average respondent’s guess at the number of abortions committed for rape and incest was 21% of the total number of abortions in the United States.
2. In 1996-2011, six states compiled the reasons that 1.3 million women obtained abortions.  Abortions for both rape and incest totaled 0.13% of all abortions ― that’s one out of every 770.
3. Rebecca Chalker and Carol Downer admit in their A Woman’s Book of Choices, “Before abortion was legal, women sometimes got abortions by claiming that they had been raped.”The reporting of rapes jumped significantly the very first month the law was in effect, and police reported that many women admitted that they were reporting rapes just to get a free abortion

• About six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) said in a 2018 survey that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, compared with 37% who said it should be illegal all or most of the time. Public opinion on this question has been relatively stable over more than two decades of Pew Research Center polling, and there is little difference between the views of men and women.

• In a December 2017 survey, roughly half of Americans (48%) said having an abortion is morally wrong, while 20% said they think it is morally acceptable and 31% said it is not a moral issue. These views also differed by religious affiliation: About three-quarters of evangelical Protestants (77%) said having an abortion is morally wrong, but just 24% of religiously unaffiliated people agreed.

• The vast majority of Americans expect abortion to remain at least mostly legal in the U.S. A survey conducted in December 2018 asked Americans what they think the status of abortion laws in the country will be in 2050; about three-quarters said it will either be legal with no restrictions (22%) or legal with some restrictions (55%). Far fewer said it will be illegal except in certain cases (16%) or illegal with no exceptions (5%).

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