Why abortions need to be legalized across the globe

Abortions became criminalized in Texas. Within a week many unnecessary deaths occurred. Unlike Texas, Eureka has many resources to conduct safe abortions. Eureka enables people who have yet to want children, people who made a mistake, and people who are on a path to a steady career. To achieve those goals, to accomplish everything they put their mind to. These options allow women to live their lives the way they want without the setback of a not intended child. These resources all across the country allow women to excel, just in the Humboldt area, we have many safe clinics that don’t judge or question women’s decisions no matter how young or how old. This is why I believe that abortions should be legalized everywhere.

The resources my area has given to all women would benefit everyone if they could be spread all across the globe. At least 22,800 women die annually from unsafe abortions being conducted. When back ally abortions are the last option for women who don’t want to go through their pregnancies. When women feel helpless in their bodies because abortion is criminalized where they live; they could either drive miles to a state or country that it is legalized in or they could go through the motions of contacting someone to try and get the pregnancy terminated where they are. The second option frequently, undoubtedly results in death to the carrier of the baby. The first option is not accessible to most that don’t have the money for a plane ticket or don’t have access to a car to drive themselves.

I was at a Soroptimist club meeting and we had a guest speaker. This guest speaker spoke about how she was trying to pursue her career. But then she found out she was pregnant. She already had one child and was working towards getting a higher-paying job to support her first child. She had to choose between going through with her pregnancy or her career. “I chose to focus on my career”. She went through the motions of getting her pregnancy safely terminated. This guest speaker enhanced my knowledge of why legalized abortions are so important. If she had gone through with the pregnancy she may have never gotten to the career standpoint she wanted to achieve. “Having good resources allowed me to where I was located gave the allowed making.” Made her able to pursue her career.

This safe and common procedure that has all this controversy has made some doctors in various states and countries not be able to fully fulfill their job criteria. Having this procedure criminalized disables doctors from helping people. Last year when a red state decided that they were going to illegalize abortions. US doctors are worried about the significant rise in unsafe abortions, an easy procedure that doesn’t take a lot of time is being done on women by people who don’t have the knowledge or skill to perform them. In America, 73% of doctors claim that abortion is essential to basic health care. A doctor in Texas went against the extreme abortion ban on Sep. 6th because he believed that it is a fundamental right for a woman to go through with one. “I acted because I had a duty of care to this patient, as I do for all patients, and because she has a fundamental right to receive this care,” Dr. Braid wrote. “I fully understood that there could be legal consequences — but I wanted to make sure that Texas didn’t get away with its bid to prevent this blatantly unconstitutional law from being tested.”

This doctor took brave motions of giving basic healthcare even when his state was against it. Because he knew in his head and his heart that even though he was defying his state laws he knew it was something that he had to do. When abortions were banned in that state many states that it was legalized put on marches petitioning for women’s reproductive rights. Insisting on women’s rights to their bodies. The rally Eureka created was held on October 2nd of 2021. “We must mobilize and defend our reproductive rights.” All of these women came together for something they believed in, even though it was legal in their state they wanted to help the women who have had their reproductive rights taken away in Texas and many other places across the globe.

Women’s rights have always caused a backlash, this is similar to the anti-suffragist movement. Words out of men’s mouths and conservative women said women did not care enough to have these rights. They needed to stay in the place they were in cooking, cleaning, tending to, and having more children. Women gaining these rights to their bodies, their rights to their own minds terrified the well-being of the men. The well-being of what they once knew. The picture I chose is relative to the topic because it represents the women of the future, women of the future should have the rights to their own bodies.