i am debating in class tommorow on pro abortion that women should have the right to chose if they want an abortion my side is pro i need to make a opening statement that states the argument clearly and concisely it has to be two min long i need help on this its for health class and this is what i have so far please give me more info so i can finish this winner gets 10pts
The right to terminate a pregnancy, are issues of life and death for women, not just mere matters of choice. Reproductive justice recognizes reproductive rights as basic human rights. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, correctly, that women have the right to a personal, private decision on abortion. It is a woman’s right to her life that gives her the right to terminate her pregnancy. Women, regardless of age, social or marital status, have the right to have a safe, legal abortion.
SEE THE OPENING STATEMENT BELOW. SORRY TO WANDER.
Just a suggestion, but I might start off by pointing out that seeing a pregnancy to term is more dangerous than having an abortion, that men–who don’t bear any personal risk made the decisions, and mention that graveyards all over the world are filled with women who died during child birth.
Since you have asked for critisism, I would take out some of the more PC praseology. My reason being that phrases like "terminate at pregnancy" and "reproductive justice" tend to preach to the choir while pi**ing off Christians and conservatives to no end while just going in one ear and out the other of the people who are already on your side. Remeber, the secret to successful argument is to convince people to change thier opinions.
I’ll give it a try which you are free to use, take ideas from or throw away keeping your basic points. But, remember, your job is to change the minds of people on the other side of the debate. Those that share your view won’t take any convincing at all.
OPENING STATEMENT
Medically, the most dangerous thing any pregnant woman can do is to have the baby. From the dawn of time countless, faceless women have died anonymously in childbirth and been buried with little or any recocnition in stone fields filled with female corpses and graveyards which men built for them.
Make no mistake about it. Carrying a baby to term is the most medically dangerous choice a pregnant woman can make.
Throughout history, men in a patriarchal society just presumed it was a women’s place to die or give birth. It was certainly not her choice to question the choices of Men in power. Roe v. Wade changed that. In Roe the Supreme Court found that there exists a "zone of privacy" that surrounds every single citizen male and female. And decisions made withing that zone are private decision to be arrived at by the person who not only bears the risk of pregancy; but, who also is forced to deal with the responsibilities of motherhood should she decide to bring the life within her into the world. No longer can men, who if unhappy with the results of thier brief sexual unions dictacte a lifetime of consequences to women while they convienently dissapear. No longer may the state and Church intude into the most intimate recesses and organs of a women’s body and dictate outcomes that they do not take responsibility for. The decision to excersize the Right to have an abortion can be the most agonizing decision that a woman may face. But, with abortion safe and legal, she has the choice to make it not only for her interests, but also for the interests of the child that she choses to carry in her body for nine months or chooses not to carry. Her decision is not easy, not without moral difficulty or ambiguity, or with out far reaching psychological repercussions. That is why it is so critical that this decision of such great importance be made by the woman who will bear the burden of her choice. It is not the decision of the anonymous, unfeeling state, or the father, who may or may not decide to see things through. She who bears the risk and carries the wheight also is responsible for deciding how to handle a pregnancy. No matter howerver ambigously unjust the consequences may be. The decisions leading to those consequences, as a matter of law, lie with she who will bear the ultimate consquences of the decisions she choses to make. The decision whether is be to bring the child to term or opt for another alternative, to parahrase Retired Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O’Connor, "a husband cannot excercise the degree of control over a spouse that he can over a child."
Roe v. Wade places the decision where it best belongs with the person who’s body bears the risk and rewards of potential motherhood or the decision to avoid it.
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I had the parpagraph below left over. Good luck with your assignment.
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Oddly, it was not until medical science made it possible to safely abort a fetus that there was any choice for a pregnant woman to make.
Even more oddly, those who made the choice were not those who bore the risk. Abortion was prounced sacrilige and murder by the men of Church and the men of the State. Curiously, the decision was reached by men–who by the very dictates of biology would never suffer a single death from miscarage or even a single, "normal" of episode morning of sickenss from pregnancy.