The right to an abortion is nobody’s choice but the people involved. Protesting against abortion leads to real consequences for people who are totally unrelated to those protesting. States that make abortion illegal may affect innocent people, those who are unready and unfit to be parents should not go through the hardships of pregnancy and giving birth. And victims of rape should not be forced to have a baby because abortion is illegal. Women who are forced to keep a baby through the product of rape is extremely harsh and unfair. Limiting and banning abortion will only force those who need the abortion into doing illegitimate and shady procedures that are unsafe because those that are determined will find alternatives. The best thing will be for abortions to be easily accessible because it should be the choice of whoever’s involved, especially the woman because it is her own body. 

The controversial argument being used to support anti-abortion is that a fetus is a person and should have the same rights as any other person. I personally believe that rights should not be applied to a fetus because it has not even been born yet. Something to think about though, at what point would it be immoral to have an abortion? Typically when somebody finds out they are pregnant it is usually because they have missed their period. Usually one to two months in during the pregnancy is when people find out. By then the fetus is barely forming a heart, is it considered alive? If anything, laws that have to ban abortion can at least state what stage in the pregnancy would abortion be illegal. 

It is a mother’s job to take care of herself during pregnancy to therefore take care of the unborn child, but when a woman is not fit to be a mother or is unable to take care of herself it leads the unborn child to an unjust future. It is true that if one isn’t ready to be a mother then they shouldn’t have unprotected sex, but if what’s done is done then the baby that would be born shouldn’t have to suffer. All of these protestors fighting for an unborn child have never truly considered the people carrying the fetus. If their situation requires an abortion, who will have the right to judge? And even if there is no plausible cause, it is still the person’s right to determine whether or not they want to keep the baby or go through pregnancy. 

There are also those who are unfit and unready to become parents, forcing them to parenthood by banning abortion would be forcing the child to live in horrible conditions. Those who are unable to financially support themselves, much less a child, will most likely force the child to live in poverty. The people fighting against abortion claiming it is morally wrong should consider these arguments and question the morality of both sides. Overall, it really should be the decision of whoever has to birth the child to have the access to whether or not they should have an abortion, not can. 

The following images are of boards created to protest against anti-abortion and basically all state that a woman should have the right to an abortion and nobody else should tell them otherwise, it is their own body and their own “uterus”.