Abortion: 21st Century Massacre
Since 1973 there have been a staggering 53 million abortions in the U.S. alone. Imagine that for a second, a sixth of our entire population lost. The United States of America is violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR was adopted on the 10th of December, 1948 and written primarily by John Peters Humphreys, its role is to provide an outline of what every human being’s rights are. IN abortion the baby is killed without a say in the issue. Abortion is in clear violation of Article 3 in the UDHR. This article states, “Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person” (UDHR 3). Because of this, the act of abortion without good cause should be illegal in the U.S. and legislation needs to do something about it.
Abortion has always been a hot topic in the U.S. While most statistics only go back to 1973, the history of abortion in the U.S. can be traced back nearly 200 years. According to Marvin Oalsky the average Pro-Life advocate will argue that abortion wasn’t widely practiced until the late 1900’s and the average Pro-Choice advocate will argue that in the U.S. abortion has been widely practiced and accepted as ok. The true answer is somewhere in the middle. It has been fairly common for women to procure abortions from doctors as early as the late 1700’s yet until the latter half of the 1900’s it wasn’t generally accepted by the public to be something that should be legal (U.S. Abortion History 1). A huge turning point in the history of abortion is the famous Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court case. Linda Napikoski, a woman’s history expert, tells us that Norma McCorvey, under the alias Jane Roe, sued Texas for not allowing her to have an abortion legally. While Roe originally tried to fake rape to have the baby aborted, that failed and she attempted to get an abortion illegally. When she found out the underground clinic she had planned on using was shut down, she had no other choice than to...