Small Essay on Abortion.

     Oh boy, this sure can be a tricky one. I'll just say right off the bat that this essay will probably anger both sides of the debate, but that's why I think it's really important to share this point of view.

     First off, Pro-Choice is the only logical option. No matter how much you hate the idea of legal abortion, outlawing it would only cause more problems than it would solve. It's that simple. We can't outlaw abortion, but before I explain why, I'm going to seemingly fly in the face of of two big view points Pro-Choicers have.

     1. Abortion ends a human life. (A.K.A. Abortion is murder.)
     I want to keep this short, so I won't be giving a lesson on the stages of pregnancy, but the only difference between a fertilized egg and a baby is time has passed. Since time is not a force we can control, it makes no sense to treat a fertilized egg as anything other than human life. There is definitely a bit of a gray area in that time when the egg hasn't actually implanted on the uterine wall, and this is where the morning after pill is used. It's a gray area because the fertilized egg (now a blastocyst) doesn't always implant and result in a pregnancy. However, once implantation has occurred, and pregnancy has officially begun, intentionally interrupting this process is without a doubt snuffing out a human life.

     2. We should stop saying "it's a womans right to choose."
     The idea that it's a woman's right to choose bothers me because it implies women have sole authority over the reproduction of the whole species. It isn't fair to shut men totally out of the equation, considering it almost always takes a man and a woman to start a pregnancy. HOWEVER I am in no way suggesting a man should ever have the power to force a woman to carry a child she doesn't want. That is a scary thought and I would never feel comfortable in a society that allowed that. All I'm trying to say is that I would like the people who say "it's a womans right to choose" to recognize that the father might actually care about the future of their unborn child. Also, I'd like the women who might say "it's my body, my choice" to see that it isn't that simple. They now have another body inside theirs, and it has a right to live.

    Okay, so it's clear to me that abortion is basically murder, yet I'm still Pro-Choice. The reason for this is simple, like I said earlier, outlawing abortion would just cause more problems. It wouldn't end abortion any more than outlawing drugs has stopped drug dealers. Women who want an abortion would have to turn to a black market system of underground and likely unsafe practitioners. This obviously would not be an improvement.

     The only real way to solve this problem is to get everyone to think smarter about sex and pregnancy. By decreasing the about of unwanted pregnancies, we would decrease the amount of abortions. I know this isn't really a new idea, but I promise it's the best option we have.