Happy Orere-Amadu and Katherine Wright

4/19/2015

Abortion-Spousal Consent
The law protects both the right to believe and the life of the believer. Religious beliefs
should be embraced freely, not imposed by law. Also we recognize that to invoke religious
liberty to destroy anothers life is an intolerable abuse. If someone does not believe the child in
the womb is a human that is his or her own business and should be allowed to make that decision
because they are the one who is going to live with it for the rest of their lives. But to go on and
say that because one doesnt believe that the child in the womb is human, it should be legal to
kill it is definitely another decision. The law doesnt care about the belief it regulates the action.
The freedom not to believe should never be confused with freedom to destroy others. This relates
to both arguments in our research question: If a woman has decided to have an abortion but her
husband is against it, do you think she should go ahead and have it or not? With about 28.2%
saying yes and supporting the wife and 71.8% saying no disagreeing with the wife decision. Our
research points out the reasons why both of these parties either agree or disagrees with this
question.
When it comes to abortion men, as well as women suffer from abortions. And a major
cause of suffering for men is that they are all too often shut out when their wives or girlfriends
decide to have an abortion. They are told its not their choice, not their body, and not their
business. But the most important thing these people forget about is that it is their baby too. When
you try to prevent your wife or girlfriend from getting an abortion, you are being a good dad.
Good dads stand up for their children and dont stand by passively while someone kills their
child. But if you do whats in your power to stop an abortion, and your wife or girlfriend chooses
one anyway, you need to find and means to solve the issue and change her mind to reconsider
having it. Most
Actual deaths due to legal abortion are more likely in later term abortions, 3rd trimester
ones which are not performed in Texas at all. And because a woman dies it does not mean
something went wrong with the procedure, all women who get later term abortions know that
there are more at risks, and many of them have health issues that prompt the abortion to begin
with. All surgical procedure has a risk rate and mortality rate. Legal abortions risk of death is
very low I think about 40 times lower than the risk of death during a colonoscopy. The decision
on whether to abort or birth must be entirely the mother's decision. It's her body. That will mean
that a man may be emotionally hurt by anothers decision, but I just cant see a way around that.
No woman should be forced to be a mother if she doesnt want to be yet. However, many people
think that there should be a legal mans right to choose.
Once a woman finds out that she is pregnant, she should needs to inform the father
before further actions should be taken. The man will have a brief legal time to sign a sworn
statement either agreeing to be responsible for the child or signing his legal rights and
responsibilities to the child away to the mother. At that point, the woman can exercise her right to
choose with the knowledge of whether there will be a father there to help her or not and then she
can do whatever she wants to do with her baby. This way, its entirely the womans decision on
whether she will be a mother or not, and its entirely the mans decision on whether he will be a
father or not.

However, with all these I am thinking about whether this should be available to all men,
or just unmarried men. When thinking about the cases of abortion they are many things that need
to be considered like religion. Lots of Christians do not accept abortion because they believe is
murder, the killing of an innocent human being. However, I am a Christian and I do not believe
in abortion because I think is not a good thing at least that is the way I was brought up that it is a
bad act but I respect others beliefs who thinks it is their right to do whatever they want with their
unborn child because we have to take into considerations the things that lead the person to want
to get the abortion in the first place. For example rape, abusive relationship, unwanted
pregnancy, teen pregnancy which is really common now days, not ready to have a child yet,
accidental and so many other factors. All these factors need to be taken into consideration before
ruling out if abortion should be legal or not.
Reducing the need for abortions requires addressing some tough challenges. A real
program would reduce poverty, provide effective health education and preventive health care,
teach life management skills to all of our population, and make effective and affordable birth
control available to all men and women. Still, we always have some number of women who
simply shouldnt carry a fetus to term for any number of valid reasons some medical, some
emotional, and some due to just bad luck. I believe that a father has should have a full legal right
in the choice of deciding the fate of their unborn child. There is a big difference and I dont like
those men are put in that position to choose between their wife and child. But as unfair as that is,
it is more unfair for a child to be put in the position of requiring the state to help them because
their parents cant make a decision together. It is irrelevant to that child if his father wanted to be
a father. Hes still his/her child. If there was a way to make sure that children were never aborted
unless both parents decided they dont want them, then I would be all for it probably. The state
should absolutely have to provide for every child who has no means. That does not give parents
the right to leave children in the position of having to rely on the state.
I agree that we need to look into all these factors that could be leading people into having
abortion at such a high rate. Which are factors like poverty, lack of education, no adequate health
care, and unprotected sex and so on. For example: a single mother of 4 children with 2 teenagers
and two teens living in poverty and barely making heads to meet in other to feed her 4 children.
Then one of the teenagers gets pregnant and doesnt know the father of the baby and she already
knows that she and her family her barely surviving. The mother may decide she wants her
daughter to abort the baby because they cant provide for the baby and they dont have a choice.
Lots of people may see this as a justification for the mother to commit to an abortion because she
cant provide for the baby alone and definitely dont need the spousal consent because she
doesnt even knows him so probably she feels it is her sole right to decide the fate of her unborn
child without any interference.
In conclusion, as much as I see abortion as a symptom of societal failure, being familiar
well enough with the results of the back alley abortions of the pre-Roe v. Wade era. I believe this
decision is best made by women and their doctors and whatever spiritual or emotional support
system the woman personally requires. It should be the decision of the mother to decide what he
or she wants to do with the fetus in her womb because she is the one carrying it not the law but
however that doesnt mean she should shut out her husbands opinion about the baby because the
baby belongs to him too and they both should take the time and make the final decision about
what happens to their baby life.

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