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A new controversial topic has been rising since the twentieth century as medical
technology has been advancing. As people could terminate their pregnancy through medical
processes, more and more people were able to go to the hospital to abort their child. This led to a
controversy as to whether this medical process of abortion should be banned or not. In this essay,
I want to argue that abortion should not be banned because of reasons regarding human rights,
prevention of a population overgrowth, and because there are more effective to ways to grow a
Firstly, all people have a freedom of happiness. According to the United States Bill of
Rights, all people should be entitled to pursue life, liberty and happiness (Rakove). This means
that people must have a right to have or not have their child according to their willingness. Also,
this could also mean that because happiness is directly connected to people’s willingness to do
something, they are able to pursue a happy life by choosing to abort their child. Therefore, their
willingness of having or not having a child should not be banned by a country. For example, if
one accidently makes a woman pregnant, the women should be able to abort their child because
it was not her willingness to be pregnant; it should be her choice to abort her child, not her
Recommendation No.35 on Gender Based Violence states that “violations of women’s sexual and
reproductive health and rights are forms of gender-based violence that may amount to torture or
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” (General). Therefore, abortion should not be banned
Abortion is often practiced in newly industrializing countries in order to slow down the
population boom. For example, Mexico is one of the countries that prohibits abortion (unless to
save women’s life), and we can tell that their population pyramid looks like a triangle by figure
University says that “overpopulation remains the leading driver of hunger, desertification,
growth was so fast that they feared it might devalue their economic position. As a result, 400
million births were prevented, and two trillion yuan (approximately 315 billion dollars) were
collected by the Government (Five). Also, the total fertility rate decreased from 2.9 in 1979 to
1.7 in 2004, with a rate of 1.3 in urban areas and just under 2.0 in rural areas. (The Effect)
Similarly, for countries where the process of industrialization is on-going, it is very common to
notice a rapid population growth such as China in late-1900s. Because those growths may harm
their countries’ economy, abortion should neither be banned in order to reduce the speed of
However, some people argue that for more economically developed countries, the rate of
population decrease has been a new problem. They argue that for those countries, abortion
should be banned in order to prevent any population reduction. However, I want to suggest that
the countries create a policy on welfare and giving rewards to people instead of banning
abortion. According to the United States abortion statistics, 23 percent of people who aborted
their children aborted due to financial reasons (Facts). This means that countries should try to
give financial support to women to prevent the population decrease. For example, one of the
policies that France put was to encourage a three-child policy which supported a cash incentive
of 675 pounds monthly for a mother to stay off work for one year following the birth of her third
child (Case). As a result, France is maintaining their birth rate, which is the highest on the
continent (Why). Therefore, countries should legislate a new law or policy to encourage people
to have a child.
Therefore, considering human rights and to slow down the population growth in some
countries, abortion should not be banned. However, in very developed countries, the countries
have to legislate a new law or policy in order to encourage people to have a child and prevent
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