Abortion Should Be Made Illegal The only ways that abortion should be allowed is when a pregnant woman has a baby and the woman is in danger of losing her life if she gives birth, and when it is a pregnancy do to incest or rape. In the case of incest and rape, they are illegal and the woman should not have to have a child that she was forced upon having without consensual sex. Roughly two years before I was born my mother was pregnant and the baby was growing in her fallopian tubes. She was allowed to have an abortion, if she didn’t have an abortion then she would have died and I would have never been born. That is why in rare occurrences when the mother’s life is in grave danger, it should be allowed.
Abortion should be illegal because surveys indicate that having an abortion can increase a woman’s risk of getting breast cancer. According to Joe Brand, a professor of biology and endocrinology at Baruch College of the City University of New York, the study shows that a woman who has had an abortion has a 50% increase in the chances of getting breast cancer. Many experts don’t even recognize those statistics, even when they came from the New York State Department of Health, which there was a study in 1989, but The American Journal of Epidemiology would not publish the study. And, even though there have been numerous studies connecting the two, it is still not recognized as a legitimate claim.
The studies found a significantly increased amount of breast cancer among women living in Washington (state) who have had one or more abortions. This is a not single study for there is evidence from studies connecting abortion and breast cancer dating back to the 1950’s.
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Page 5 of 7 Abortions may damage the cervix. The muscle could be torn when it is stretched open. The womb could be punctured by the abortion instruments. This could lead to later miscarriages, bleeding during pregnancy, or premature birth (Lowenstein, 44). If this happens you could never get pregnant again. Abortion prevents 3 to 5 percent of women from getting pregnant again (Lowenstein, 45). If ...
