whose choice

Abortion itself has become one of the greatest controversies existing in our society today. It seems as though it is topic of just about person's conversation, but there is something that doesn't quite make sense about the reality of this. While I fully support the ideal that everyone is entitled to their own opinions, when it comes to actually taking action to destroy others rights to this, that is when the issue takes full force. In an debate like abortion, I think it is most important to remember who it is actually concerned with.

Within her piece, "Abortion Is a Motherhood Issue," Judith Arcana discusses the extent to which abortion is a choice. It is not something that is decided carelessly or taken lightly in any way, which is something that many prol-life advocates have made uninformed misconceptions about. In our society abortion is viewed by many as immoral and shame-worthy, creating "woman-hating and mother-blaming" ideologies that we let dominate our political world and governmental power. We allow ignorant, unexperienced, misogynistic republicans to make women who have had abortions or are considering them feel guilt and ignominy. But abortion is a choice. Women are not criminals and women are not murderers. Arcana summarized this in saying, "Every woman who has an abortion knows what it means and lives in that meaning the best she can" (226). At the end of the day it is the woman who gets pregnant, the woman who has to carry and give birth to the child, and the woman who has to give that child the best life she can. Why shouldn't she have ultimate control to make the best decision for herself and the child?
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