A Woman’s Body, A Woman’s Right!
Summary: “The Abortion Debate That Wasn’t,” an article written by Wendy McElroy, is a blog defending her opinions on abortion and explaining how she is very pro-choice. Wendy’s philosophy stands beside the quote, “a woman’s body, a woman’s right!” Although she is very pro-choice, she also has moral reservations about late term abortions. She is strongly against partial birth abortions for any reason other than “that concerning the health of the pregnant woman.”(McElroy, 1) Wendy states that morality is decided upon “individual conscience.”(McElroy, 3) The law can not determine what is moral and immoral.
Commentary: On almost the entire article, I agree with Wendy’s persuasion. I believe that a woman chooses what she does with her body, even though it would be better to be abstinent. I loved how she compared having an abortion to pornography and other sexual deviances. She argued that if laws determine that abortion is immoral, then sexual activities would be illegal too because it constitutes the disregard of public morality.
Analysis: Wendy is the editor of “Liberty for Women” and “Freedom, Feminism, and the State.” She is also the author of “A Woman’s Right to Porn.” Because she writes for feminists group, I assume that she is bias to females rather that the religious perspectives. Another reason I think she would try to defend abortion is because she had a first-trimester abortion that she is open to talk about. McElroy has been writing about abortion for almost ten years and she is very well educated on this subject. The one thing that I don’t think she considered was abortion. She doesn’t address how that is an option to women who aren’t ready to raise a child.
McElroy, Wendy. “The Abortion Debate That Wasn’T.” IFeminists. 24 Apr. 2001. 25 Nov. 2007 .
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In Terry Lefler’s editorial about abortion, she argues not only bad but also the good in legalizing abortion. She states, “There are either extreme anti-abortionists or extreme pro-abortionists, nothing in between.” Her opinion on abortion goes more toward the religious views. Lefler says, “It doesn’t reconcile us, as a nation, with God.” My opinion is that abortion should be legal. Although I think it is bad to kill a young fetus, I believe that it would be worse to raise a child in an unstable environment. Because she is so caught up on religion, she overlooks other matters. For instance, young single women who have children usually have to get food stamps or be on WIC or other government funding plans. It would be cheaper on the government if we didn’t have as many people on those plans. Also, rape victims definitely do not want to keep a child who was conceived because of that incident. I think abstinence is the best choice no matter what, but if a young girl does get pregnant, then her life is sort of ruined or at least put on hold. She is unable to finish her education and fully support her child on her own. I think it is somewhat ironic that she feels so strongly for the religious views on abortions, even though she had an abortion when she was younger. She claims that when she had the abortion she wasn’t close to God of else she would have chosen differently. She is now more bias to religion and no longer supports abortion.
http://www.terrylefler.com/editorials-abortion.htm
Leflter, Terry. “Abortion Editorial.” Terry Lefler June 2005. 1 Nov. 2007 .
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