From a global perspective, forty six million women have abortions each year; in America alone, there are four thousand abortions a day! The conflict over abortion has been unsettling to societies across the globe. Induced abortion can result in damage to reproductive health, also it affects a woman's mental health, and, lastly, according to new scientific research, it increases the risk of breast cancer. Because of the various negative consequences state policies of abortion laws should put more restrictions on induced abortion.
Abortion is the termination of pregnancy, the ejection of the embryo or fetus. Russia was the first country to make abortion legal during the twentieth century. In 1920, Vladimir Lenin decreed that no woman should be forced to bear a child against her will. He framed it as a human rights issue, but it is probable that he was acting more to address the health issues caused by illegal abortions performed under unsanitary and unsafe conditions during the havoc of the revolution and civil wars. In 2006, Colombia's highest court ruled that women could obtain abortions if a mother's life was in danger, if the fetus was not expected to survive birth, or if the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. However, in the modern American society, government still leaves a woman freedom of choice whether to keep a yet-born baby or not. According to state policies of abortion laws, a woman can undergo induced abortion during the first twenty to twenty-four weeks (1). Induced abortion is not to be confused with essential medical treatment to save the mother's life that results in the death of her baby; there is a clear difference between essential medical treatment during pregnancy, and the direct targeting of the life of the unborn baby.
It is known that abortion can damage a woman's reproductive health. The immediate consequence of abortion could be the risk of damage to a woman's reproductive organs and her future ability to have children.
