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· 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.

Sources

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Bazelon, Emily. "Trump’s Abortion Strategy." The New York Times. The New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017. Web. 07 July 2017.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/opinion/trumps-abortion-strategy.html

Bassett, Laura. "What It Really Means To 'Defund' Planned Parenthood." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 08 Mar. 2017. Web. 07 July 2017.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-defunding-planned-parenthood-means_us_58b71ab6e4b019d36d100ed0

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katha-pollitt/abortion-conversation-katha-pollitt-pro_b_5989136.html

"U.S. Abortion Statistics." Abort73.com / Abortion Unfiltered. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 July 2017.

http://abort73.com/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics/