Abortion Should Be Legalized Argumentative Essay

Abortions should be legalized everywhere. Abortion should be legal because it does not cause pain to the fetus and abortions help with a woman’s emotional feelings.

First of all Abortions do not cause any harm to the fetus. According to an article published on pro con web cite ‘The cortex does not become functional until at least the 26th week of a fetus’ development, long after most abortions are performed.”Most abortions are performed way before the cortext has developed. Therefore the fetus can not  feel any pain while the procedure is taking place.

In addition, “Not only has the biological development not yet occurred to support pain experience, but the environment after birth, so necessary to the development of pain experience, is also yet to occur.” (procon.org) Another reason the fetus can not feel pain  is because the baby has not experienced the birth process, which is very important for the development of a baby's experience of pain.

According to a article on pro con web cite  found that women who were denied abortions “felt more regret and anger” and “less relief and happiness” If all the women were given the option to have an abortion they would most likly feel relief and happieness instead of anger. Authorities say “Research has shown that having an abortion does not increase a woman's risk for depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder”. Having an abortion dose not give you any mental illness nor dose having an abortion negatitally affectyou in any way.

Some may say abortion kills innocent babies. Having an abortion dose not kill innocent babys.

According to an article published by Cleveland development clinic  You can't hear a baby's heartbeat till at least the 6th week. Until then the fetus is not considered a baby. Therefore you would not be killing an innocent baby.

Furthermore, abortion needs to be legalized everwhere because the fetus feels no harm and abortion help a womens emotanol well being. Women need to have a choice about weather or not they want an abortion. So we all need to help make that happen.