I’m too late for some of the major controversial problems of this year, the deaths of George Floyd, Brianna Taylor, and the others, the police brutality, and everything else, but I can state my opinion on the first amendment to be voted on. It is to be voted on whether or not all abortions are to be illegal, no matter who, how, or why. They want it for all babies to be carried to full term, but that is a little ridiculous if we are being honest, and we are. Let’s look at the facts:Â
Females can get pregnant at 11, but there are some cases where it’s even younger.
Around 3 million women experience rape-related pregnancy
Around half of the pregnancies in the United States are unintended
In 41% of unintended pregnancies, the women were consistently on birth control
Over 11% of abortions were on those under 20
Over 33% of abortions were on those from 20-24
Almost half of abortions are from females 24 and under, the age of which most females aren’t ready for children, either emotionally, mentally, or finically. Most of those females are still going through school or living with their parents. As of 2017, around 21% of unmarried households are single mothers.Â
Now less than a fourth of Congress (23.7%) and the House of Representatives (23.2%) are female and only 26% of the U.S. Senate is female. That means that the majority of our representatives making decisions on the female body are male.
Then, there is the case of pregnancy-related deaths in women. Around 700 women each year in the United States die due to pregnancy. The female body goes through many changes during pregnancy, some of which can be fatal to the mother. Some of the common causes of pregnancy deaths are severe bleeding (mostly bleeding after childbirth), infections (usually after childbirth), high blood pressure during pregnancy (pre-eclampsia and eclampsia), and complications from delivery.Â
So, women can die from childbirth, be raped and conceive a child, get pregnant while on birth control, and yet it shouldn’t be their decision whether or not they keep the child. Then, dogs and cats can have pregnancies terminated if the pregnancy was not intended or could harm the mother, and yet it is not considered inhumane, but it is murder if a human mother terminates her pregnancy due to the unfortunate conditions the child was conceived under or could die due to her pregnancy.
Sources from where the information was gathered:
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/datasources/nisvs/understanding-RRP-inUS.html
https://www.umassmed.edu/news/news-archives/2019/05/who-are-the-1-in-4-american-women-who-choose-abortion/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/27/about-one-third-of-u-s-children-are-living-with-an-unmarried-parent/
https://cawp.rutgers.edu/women-us-congress-2020
https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/pregnancy-relatedmortality.htm
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/maternal-mortality