Friday, April 13, 2018

Abortion has been an incredibly controversial topic for many decades. Currently, abortion is legal in all 50 states of the US, however more and more laws are being passed to limit the availability of abortions as well as restrictions to make it more difficult. In the blog, Ohio Bill That Bans All Abortions by Jeta Brovina, its discussed that the lawmakers in Ohio have pushed a bill that suggests to ban all abortions and even seeks to press charges, in extreme measures against those that undergo the procedure, or the doctors that performed it.
                I will be the first to agree that I too find this bill to be absolutely absurd. Banning abortion alone completely infringes the rights of women and punishing them for a medical procedure is unconstitutional. Although I completely agree with Brovina, I feel that some additional points could have been discussed to strengthen her opinion and influence the readers. It would have been helpful to have a link to the original article to understand the facts of the bill being passed. One important statement that stood out to me was the statement made by the United Nation Humans Right Council insisting that to force a pregnant woman to carry a fetus to term unwillingly or unwantedly, is arguably torture, which was not mentioned or commented on in this editorial. Brovina could have also mentioned some of the factors that lead women to make a decision such as abortion. Those reasons including poverty, health issues of the child or the woman, or women that were raped. Discussing these explains some of the reasons she opposes the bill. Brovina discusses that she feels that rather than banning abortion other health programs should be established, but didn't elaborate on any specific ideas. I completely stand by the opinion regarding the matter, but find it important to back an opinion with reason. 

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