Abortion

            
             Abortion is a very heavily debated topic in our society. There are many views for and against the idea of abortion in all of its forms. The United States of America was founded on principles freedom, including free will. While, like most forms of technology medical and not, abortion is not always used in appropriate ways, it is a very useful and necessary medical procedure. There are many valid reasons for women to have an abortion, as well as for the procedure to be legal. When abortion is illegal, women who need them find them in unclean and dangerous settings. Many women who have abortions do so in order to save their own lives and/ or health. There are also abortions preformed with the future of the fetus in mind. .
             A young woman in Idaho visited her doctor for a pregnancy test after missing her period for three months in a row. An obvious question from the doctor was why she had waited three months before making the visit. Her answer was disheartening. She was frightened because her lifestyle was not exactly healthy, she was a cocaine addict. When her test came back positive, she was faced with the most troublesome decision she had ever encountered. See, the entire three months that she had been continuously using drugs. After much deliberation, the young woman decided to have an abortion. "Why how do I have the right to bring a child into the world that will undoubtedly suffer greatly from day one for my actions," was her response to everyone who asked why she had an abortion. Two years later, the young woman had cleaned up, and once again went into the physician's office for a pregnancy test. Excited about being a mother, she decided to join a support group for women contemplating abortion as a mentor.