REFUTATION BLOCK OUTLINE
REFUTATION BLOCK
· Most women think of women who are getting abortions as careless teens or partyers.
· Around 6 in 10 women who are getting abortions are already mothers.
· Making abortion illegal will not stop abortions from happening.
· One illegal abortion survivor writes that, ““Abortions will continue regardless of whether it’s legal or not legal ― as it always has.”
· Donald Trump plans to defund Planned Parenthood under suspicion that the government funding that the organization is receiving is going towards abortions, which is not what it is meant for.
· Abortions are in fact payed for out of pocket, and are not payed for by Planned Parenthood.
· Planned Parenthood provides this service for under privileged and under payed women who would otherwise have no other option.
· With an application process put on abortions, it will eliminate women who abuse the opportunity they have to get an abortion.
· Abortion should not be a common occurrence that happens more than once to one woman.
· This application will go through medical history, criminal history, proof of income and a justification as to why the mother is unfit to have the child.
· Just because most women, over half, who get abortions are already mothers does not mean they are any more responsible.
· It does not matter if the woman has multiple children or none at all, the outcome and precautions are the exact same.
· Making abortion illegal will stop them from being performed at hospitals and Planned Parenthood, where most abortions take place.
· “Back-alley” illegal abortions are very dangerous and rare to come by these days.
· Planned Parenthood is in disagreement with Trump’s opinions on abortion, therefore has no problem to use their government funding to perform abortions.
· Without Trump’s release on the government funding for Planned Parenthood, the organization would still continue to perform abortions.
· An application process for abortions will be very difficult to enforce and cause a lot of legal dispute over who should and should not be deemed fit to raise a child or not.
· It would be difficult to make the process completely fair and understanding to all situations when it comes to abortion.
· This process would take a long time and have a long waiting list, there simply is not enough time when there is a baby on the way.
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