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Female Empowerment

Reproductive choice is an empowerment for women. It gives them control over their own bodies. It is interesting that women are given freedom over their own bodies. It is also interesting that there is a debate on abortion and yet, in almost every other aspect, women have full rights over themselves. Believing in this view would mean that abortion is a personal decision. This idea would be true in the sense that if abortion is illegal most women will go for unsafe methods resulting to health complications.

Health and Safety

Access to legal and professional abortions reduces risks associated with unsafe, illegal abortions. This view is helpful in that it encourages safe, healthy methods of abortion (Elbow, 1973). If I believed in this view, I would be submitting to the opinion that abortion should be legal. This idea would be true on the condition that illegalizing abortion will encourage unsafe methods which can lead to health complications which can be fatal.

Abortion as a Means of Birth Control

It is helpful in that abortion is used to regulate population. This view is interesting in that death is accepted as a birth control method ("ProCon.org - Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues", 2016). If I believed in this view, I would note that abortion plays a positive role as an artificial birth control method. This idea might be true in situations where the birth is not planned for.

References

Elbow, P. (1973). The Believing Game and How to Make Conflicting Opinions More Fruitful:

An Analysis of the Intellectual Process (1st ed., pp. 147-91). Oxford University Press.

Retrieved from http://www.procon.org/sourcefiles/believinggame.pdf

ProCon.org. (2016, June 3). Should Abortion be Legal? ProCon.org. Retrieved from

http://abortion.procon.org