Andres Guitarra

Sister Carr

ENG 106L

01/03/17

Abortion shouldn`t be use as a contraceptive method

According to the World Health Organization 21.6 million women experience an

unsafe abortion worldwide each year. Even when woman have the their agency to

abort, they also have the responsibility to take care of her bodies avoiding unsafe

abortions, that in most cases ends with death. The majority of abortions is because

woman are using it as a contraceptive method, but abortion use as a contraceptive

should not be an option. There are benefits we must consider before it.

Behind the abortion there are many things that only make a choice. Sofia Guevara

in her essay My planned parenthood abortion story describe her feelings about the

decision she took ..I had a lot to be ashamed of honestly. I had carelessly engaged in

unprotected sex despite being educated and knowing better. I simply just chose to be

reckless with my life and now the unborn life that was growing inside of my body. I

knew that but I couldnt face myself and what Id done. She continues I believed the

indoctrination Id been told by many, mostly public schooling sexual education. I

really believed what these people were telling me despite the fact my heart felt so heavy

and I felt something deep and powerful inside of me telling me I was wrong. I honestly

had the contemplation in my mind of leaving (many times), but I was afraid before I got

there and I was more afraid after the counseling. I felt and was told that Id let my baby

down, my family down, they expected me to walk out with a new life, clean from my

mistakes. So I sat there in fear, paralyzed. And yes, I would like to state they dont hold
you prisoner or make you stay, it is your choice but a much uninformed one/one-sided

one. I felt like something was wrong but figured that I had to fix this shame,

everyone does this, it is safe, acceptable, preferred and my family was pressuring me to

do this. And back then I really let them run my life so I stayed.

Next thing I know I felt the worst pain Ive ever felt in my life. The doctor smiled

at me in the creepiest of ways as I (literally) screamed in pain as he sucked the life,

literally out of my body.

My whole body was in shakes, I couldnt think at all, I couldnt even dress myself

I was in so much pain. I now know my body was in shock as was I in emotional trauma.

The nurses that were once so counseling and nice were now mean. Hurry up and put on

this pad and your clothes, hurry up we have other people behind you. You arent the

only one you know. I muttered if they could please help me with my panties as I

couldnt stand. She grunted, sighed, roughly assisted me to get dressed and escorted me

to the recovery room. It was full of other women who seemed so sad it made me want

to vomit. They were just as damned as I was now. We had all felt this, I knew that

without saying a word. It was on all of their faces. Not one woman looked happy. I

wondered what had led them there, some were so smart looking, some seemed rich, and

some seemed lost like me.

We got some antibiotics and after care information before sitting there for the

required time for monitoring. Then, out the door we went to the people who drove us

there. I was still in a lot of pain, and now, completely void inside my baby was gone. I

honestly didnt know if I could live with myself. As I walked out in the waiting room I

found my boyfriend in tears telling me that hed gone outside to smoke a cigarette while

he was waiting for me. He told me that he had met a wonderful man outside, who was a
protester and that told him the truth of what was going to happen to me and our baby.

He freaked and ran inside and begged them to get me out, they told him it was too late

the procedure had already happened. It was a lie, the times didnt match. They lied to

us.

We were shocked, hurt, traumatized and wed been lied to the whole time. From

day one until the moment we walked out the door. The consequences of what could and

would happen to me were never discussed. That is the experience many woman have

in their way to abort. There are many pressure, feelings of regret we can be avoid if we

choose the right decision. We can not only wait until have the same experience. We can

act now and defend life. Abortion is not about fix a mistake, we`re talking about life and

kill that life before he or she can have an opportunity in this world. And as we read in

the experience there are many consequences after abortion process.

There two types of consequences: physical and emotional. With the emotional

consequences, woman can have serious physical consequences by choosing abortion

such us: death, cervical and liver cancer, uterine perforation, cervical lacerations, pelvic

inflammatory disease, endometritis, etc. And that`s the reason that 47 000 women die

from complications of unsafe abortion each year according to the World Health

Organization. For the other side, with the emotional consequences woman feel

depressed, and overwhelmed about taking that decision. We can avoid the emotional

trauma if we avoid abortion, woman can have the opportunity to raise a child, a baby

always will be a blessing, and also they have the option, if they don`t have the

resources, to give the child up for adoption.

Those who are in favor of abortion claim that is the right of a woman to choose

that decision, but an anonymous quote says as she demands the complete control of
their body, the control should include prevent the risk of unwanted pregnancy through

the responsible use of contraception or, if that is not possible, through abstinence. We

can find the solution for unwanted pregnancies by the responsible use of our procreation

powers. Mother Teresa argues It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you

may live as you wish, we should ask ourselves, what is life? So we can be able to look

in a different way about abortion

Also there are some cases, in which the mother can die, or the fetus have

problems. Those exceptions can be solve by abortion. But even in those cases there are

mothers are willing to die for her child. So we can learn to appreciate life from that

woman. Having a child is not a game is a responsibility.

Abortion is an option that we shouldn`t considered, we can have more happiness

seeing a child with life and crying in our hands, that having a child without life in our

arms for one mistake. But we don`t know if that mistake can convert in the greatest joy

of our lives.