Should abortions remain legal or banned? Would you want someone, even your own mother, to end your life? You, a fetus, a starving being alive just a few months, whose mother is the only life support, are injected with a saline solution. Suddenly, your tiny little brain bursts from the inside out, and within minutes, you're sucked out of your house for a short span of your life, and into the trash. How can this monstrosity be a practice legalized for over 40 years? Since that fateful day of Roe v. Wade, the United States has never been the same. Since the pro-life and pro-choice freedom fighters began in the early 1970s, when the trial, larger than any other trial in the United States, was over, people have been arguing about this topic ever since. decades. Should abortion be legal or not? The topic has been instrumental in women's rights, politics, religion, even in everyday conversations. By the standards of American ethics and values, the act of murder is morally wrong. Therefore, killing unborn fetuses should also be morally wrong. Abortion, the unethical practice of aborting unborn fetuses, should be banned because the baby itself is a human being and has no say in its death. The 14th Amendment states that no one should be deprived of life as it may cause physical and mental harm to the mother. In the United States, as early as the 1900s, abortion was an illegal medical procedure except in special circumstances; rape and incest. But in the early 1970s, Norma McCovery, a single woman living in Dallas, Texas, was a single and pregnant mother. She was persuaded by friends to falsely say she had been raped, in order...... middle of paper ......cal School, found significant results in its study of the syndrome post-abortion, with 73% of women having flashbacks. experience of abortion, and 54% had visions or nightmares related to abortion. Some women experience guilt, depression, anger, sexual problems, suicidal urges, drug or alcohol abuse, grief, nightmares, or emotional numbness, to name a few. some. More common behavioral problems that occur normally: 61% increased their alcohol consumption, 65% had suicidal thoughts, 69% were sexually inhibited, 73% had flashbacks of the abortion, 77% had disability to communicate, 81% had frequent problems. tears. (Edmonds) And with more research stemming from these findings, more doctors have changed their minds on the issue of allowing abortions and whether or not they should be abolished in hospitals and credible medical clinics..