With the election of President Trump, a womens right to abortion may be trickier than before. It is unlikely that abortion will be accessable to majority of women which doesn’t create a healthy environment for women. For women, abortion shouldn’t be difficult to have access, and instead should be more accessable because the sexual educaiton in this country isn’t there, and opening abortion to more women will be less of a strain on women in general.
The banning of abortion makes less sense when the education isn’t there to be taught. We already see the Department of Education being thrown away, so what’s to say sex education wouldn’t be removed all together. Education on sex is needed, absolutely. In fact, there’s more positives to having sex education than there is removing it. According to an article from Guttmacher, the teaching of sexual education has decreased with both men and women. For women, it dropped from 70 to 60 percent where as for male it dropped from 61 to 55 percent of students who got sexual education.(Fewer U.S. Teens Are Receiving Formal Sexual Education Now Than in the Past, 2016) Why ban something when there seems to be no effort to try and create a balance. If abortion is going to be banned, then there needs to be a level of effort to educate students on the matter of sex so incidents in the future don’t happen.
Abortion while it’s not illegal everywhere around the US, is not the most accessible for women of all circumstances. Women will sometimes need to take a risk with having an unsafe abortion which is reported to have a large number of women who’ve died. According to the National Library of Medicine, it’s reported that around 68,000 women had died to unsafe abortion. (Unsafe Abortion: Unnecessary Maternal Morality) Accessibility to safer abortion would decrease the number of deaths of women. It would decrease the chances of negative side affects from an unsafe abortion, but seems like this isn’t a concern which is worryingly scary.
There’s an argument made that having these abortions will kill the potential of human life. This fetus has been denied of a chance to live and that they shouldn’t be murdered in the womb. However, there’s 2 things to this. One, while there is the chance that the unborn human could’ve gone on to do such wonderful things, what about the chance that they could’ve gone on to do horrible things too? Or is that simply going to get glossed over? Two, when women have been denied of abortion care, it’s also common they don’t recieve any assistance when the baby is born. According to an article on the NPR Health written by Selena Simmons-Duffin and Scott Horsley, women who’ve come out from denied abortions were likely to live in poverty with little assistance received such as the chance to work fulltime. (Abortion has huge financial consequences in a women’s life- and in the economy, 2024) Again, there is hardly any effort to help women who are in these circumstances, so it makes no sense to remove it completely when nothing is being done to help.
The banning of abortion would only do more harm than it would good. Banning abortion makes no sense if sex education isn’t being taught to kids, and there is the leading of more deaths with these unsafe abortions. If there isn’t going to be any effort to help support women, then the least that can be done is to make abortion accessible to women rather than making the situation more difficult.
