Topic: Abortions

Stance: Abortions need to be legal everywhere and accessible for all women.

Thesis Statement: Abortions should be legal and accessible to all women around the world, pregnancies may cause health risk, and financial issues, and it’s their right to do what they deem necessary for them.

Subtopic 1: Health risk surrounding pregnancies

Subtopic 2: Financial burden

Subtopic 3: The woman’s right to make medical choices for their selves.

Introductory Paragraph: An act of intercourse can lead to a road of decisions that a person of a specific gender would have to make. There is more than one way a woman can end up pregnant and some may be consensual or non-consensual. Having an abortion does not make a woman a horrible person nor does should it be a multi person decision. Women chose to have abortions for multiple reasons and when a woman makes that choice that should be the end of it.

Hook: Abortions need to be legal everywhere and accessible for all women. Having a baby can be risky for women and can cause health problems that are life threatening. Considering health issues that a pregnancy can cause, the fact that a woman may not be financially able to provide for their selves and a baby, comfortably. There is no needed debate surrounding why a woman shouldn’t have an abortion, it is their right to choose to do what they find necessary for themselves.

Background and contextual information:

Thesis Sentence: Abortions should be legal and accessible to all women around the world, pregnancies may cause health risk, financial issues, and it’s their right to do what they deem necessary for them.

Supporting paragraph 1 (Subtopic 1)

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Persuasive Topic Sentence (include position and align with first subtopic): The financial availability differentiates across the world in some areas they aren’t able to afford medical necessities in the case that a woman is experiencing a high-risk pregnancy.

Detail A: Women have many issues to face when deciding to carry a fetus full term, making the decision to abort a fetus is life saving for some mothers. Pregnancy causes health risk that should be paid attention to when deciding if a woman should have an abortion or not, every day 810 women die due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth across the world. India contributes to 12% of the maternal deaths and 23 % of the infant deaths worldwide (Rupani, 2021)

Detail B: Patients of this clinic in India tested higher for the pregnancy complication Lower Segment Caesarean Section, Rural areas in India are at a similar condition in terms of unavailability of blood transfusion facilities.  Blood transfusions

Detail C: Blood transfusion as a treatment modality for postpartum hemorrhage and severe anemia is well-known but still more than one-third of maternal death is due to these conditions in India and the situation of rural India is even worse

Transitional sentence: Unquestionably, children are seen as many things but the risk that comes from carrying a child can be greater and more harmful than people may believe.

Supporting paragraph 2 (Subtopic 2)

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Persuasive Topic Sentence (include position and align with second subtopic): It is not selfish nor is it wrong for a woman to terminate a pregnancy based on the financial burden that deciding to carry and birth a child brings.          

Detail A: Women admitting the financial strain children bring when there are already children in the home.

Detail B: The age women get pregnant doesn’t allow them to be financially stable to provide for them and the child

Detail C: Women who got pregnant when they were still at school spoke of having to stop their education, which resulted in regret and unhappiness (Sawyer, 2011)

Transitional sentence: There are resources available to aid in providing for mothers the thought of having to spread income and put a stop to plans a mother may have before pregnancy, an abortion is a great choice to consider until a woman feels ready.

Supporting paragraph 3 (Subtopic 3)

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Persuasive Topic Sentence (include position and align with third subtopic): The decision to terminate a pregnancy is the woman’s choice and it should not be taken from her.

Detail A:

Abortion rights advocates say the Supreme Court allowing the Texas ban to continue indicates the justices are ready to overturn Roe v. Wade. What is Roe v. Wade.

Detail B: Hatcher also predicts a backlash to the end of Roe, suggesting that some states will ease their restrictions on abortions in response to tragedies of women dying from lack of access to safe abortion care. (See Hatcher’s predictions in this issue about what happens next if Roe v. Wade is overturned.)

Detail C: I was in the state of Georgia chamber when the anti-abortion bill was passed, and it felt like a punch in the gut,” Zieman says. “I couldn’t believe we were returning to laws that infringed on the rights of women.”

Transitional Sentence: All though there are people of higher power than the average woman, it does not give them the right to snatch a woman’s right from them when it comes to making decision’s for their bodies.

Conclusion

Paraphrase thesis statement (restated in different words): Having a baby whether it is accidental or planned can cause a lot of damage for a woman, there are financial burdens that comes with having a child, as well as the complications that come, it’s important to note that when a woman decides to have an abortion the choice is hers and it does not make her a bad person.

Summarize main points: Abortions have been known to be looked at as murder but it should be looked at as a choice some women may have to make in life to save theirs or live comfortably, it is their right to decide what they would like to do.

Final remarks:

References

Organize all references below into a reference list. Be sure the references are in alphabetical order based on the author’s last name, double-spaced. List should be formatted to have hanging indents by ½ an inch, with the first line left justified and all others indented using the paragraph formatting tool. See the APA Style Guide for help with formatting references and citations. Within the essay, this reference page will be on its own page at end of your essay. Please review the grading rubric prior to completing the outline assignment to ensure successful completion.

Rupani, S. N., & Janagam, S. G. (2021). Risks a Mother Takes to Give Birth – A Cross-Sectional Study of High-Risk Pregnancies and Preparedness of Public Health Facilities in Rural Karnataka. International Journal of Medicine & Public Health, 11(1), 53–56. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.5530/ijmedph.2021.1.10

Sawyer, A., Ayers, S., Smith, H., Sidibeh, L., Nyan, O., & Dale, J. (2011). Women’s experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period in The Gambia: A qualitative study. British Journal of Health Psychology, 16(3), 528–541. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1348/135910710X528710

Supreme Court Signals Possible End to Abortion Rights Under Roe v. Wade: Texas decision provides foreshadowing. (2022). Contraceptive Technology Update, 43(2), 1–4.