Abortion in the movie "Baby Boy".
AbortionIn the movie "Baby Boy," the first scene deals with Jodi's (Tyrese Gibson) girlfriend having an abortion. When one first looks at this movie for the first time, one will not understand what is going on until they see Jodi's girlfriend coming out the clinic holding her stomach while she is in pain. During the movie, Jodi and his girlfriend gets into an argument about the pack of condoms she finds in her backseat. She gets very angry with Jodi and states how it is amazing that he uses condoms on other girls that he sleeps with, but cannot use protection when they have sexual intercourse and how she gets a trip to the clinic. Also, there is a part in the movie where Jodi's mother, tell states, "I can't keep giving you money every time you get these girls pregnant." In other words, she was paying for Jodi's girlfriend to have an abortion. Today, the word "Abortion," has been brought up in many conversations and in the media, determining whether or not abortion should be legalized. Abortion is a controversial topic that is being discussed by many. Some people feel that aborting an unborn fetus is not problem if the mother is not capable of taking care of her child or if the mother is not financially stable. However, there are others who feel that abortion is not the correct way of getting rid of a child. A mother can both keep the baby and take care of her responsibilities regardless of the situation. Also, the mother can give her baby up for adoption. While I was in high school, it became very common for teenage women to have an abortion. In the beginning, the only thing I knew about
abortion was that it meant that the mother could kill the unborn fetus. However, as I learned more and more about abortion, I have come to the conclusion that aborting a child is not right because the mother cannot take care of her responsibility. Throughout this paper, one will learn about abortion and the several Kennedy 2 methods used to terminate a pregnancy and will learn about the Roe vs. Wade court case, which dealt with abortion. Also, I will be giving some general information about abortion such as statistics and why women have abortion. Abortion is the termination of ...
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abortion was that it meant that the mother could kill the unborn fetus. However, as I learned more and more about abortion, I have come to the conclusion that aborting a child is not right because the mother cannot take care of her responsibility. Throughout this paper, one will learn about abortion and the several Kennedy 2 methods used to terminate a pregnancy and will learn about the Roe vs. Wade court case, which dealt with abortion. Also, I will be giving some general information about abortion such as statistics and why women have abortion. Abortion is the termination of pregnancy by loss or destruction of a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus before birth. Also, depending on how far the pregnancy has advanced, this can be done by taking a pill, scraping the uterine lining, removing the uterine lining by suction, or inducing labor. Recent studies have shown that more than forty-three percent of American women will have one or more abortion during their lifetime. A woman who decides to have an abortion is usually between the ages eighteen and twenty-five, they are poor, and/or they are not married. There are many reasons why women have abortions, which are: they feel that they are too young and not mature enough to have a child. Some women tend to believe that they need a man to help raise a child, when in reality that is not true. Also, the mother may feel that by aborting the child, she will be able to focus on her future far as going to college, working, and being financially stable. Other reasons why women have abortion is because of they receive pressure from their parents or their boyfriends, she does not want anyone to know that she is pregnant, or she thinks that her parents will kick her out of the house and she will have no where to go. Statistics shows that about seventy-eight percent of women who have abortion are not married. In 1992, women under the age of fifteen had the highest rate for having an abortion, while the lowest rate is from women between the ages of thirty and thirty-four. In 1996, there were at least fifty-seven percent of white women who received legal abortions. Over the years, the rate of abortion has decrease because of school teaching Kennedy 3 students about sexual educations. Also, more and more teenage women are practiceing abstinence or using protection when having intercourse. Abortion and the Terminations There are several ways to prevent from getting abortion that is, using protection, practice abstinence, or take birth control pills. However, when one does decide to have an abortion, there are several ways that a fetus can be terminated: Medical (nonsurgical) abortion, dilation and curettage, dilation and evacuation, induced labor, and intact dilation and evacuation. One way to terminate a pregnancy is called Medical (nonsurgical) abortion, which is also known as RU 486 or mifepristone. A French company developed this procedure. In 1988, the French government approved a pill that could be used to induce abortion up to eight weeks after a woman's last menstrual period. The medical abortion has been used in many different countries such as: France, England, and China. This procedure works by blocking the body's use of progesterone, the hormone necessary for maintaining the endometrium of the uterus, thus causing shedding of the uterine lining. Soon, another drug combination had proven to be equally effective in terminating a pregnancy. In order for these two drugs to work, the woman had to take the first pill at the doctor's office. Then, the woman had to take the second pill two days later at home. Some of the effect for taking this drug are cramping, nausea, and bleeding in uterine. A second way to terminate a pregnancy is called dilation and curettage. This procedure is no longer being used as much as it use to because it involved putting the Kennedy 4 woman under general anesthesia. While the woman is under anesthesia, the woman's cervix is dilated, and the lining of the uterus is then scraped with a metal instrument called a curette. Since this procedure dealt with anesthesia, the effects resulted in more bleeding. The third way of terminating a pregnancy is called dilation and evacuation. During this procedure, which did not require anesthesia, a tube was inserted through the cervix and the fetal material is removed by suction. Today, about ninety-eight percent of abortions that were legalized, are now performed by this method. Also, with the doctors being able to use a hand-held vacuum syringe, this procedure can take place eight days after conception, which only takes five minutes. There are a lot of women prefer this procedure because it is less painful and it is quicker. However, depending upon when the woman decides to have the abortion, she may or may not need anesthesia. For instance, if a woman decides to have an abortion during her fifth week of pregnancy, then she will not need anesthesia, however, if she waits until nine or ten weeks to have an abortion, then she will be given local anesthesia. The fourth way of terminating a pregnancy is by inducing the labor. This procedure is used for terminating the pregnancy if the woman waits longer than sixteen weeks to abort her child. The way this method works is by injecting a solution of hypertonic saline or prostaglandins (hormones which caused smooth muscle contractions) into the amniotic sac. This will induce the labor within forty-eight hours, and the fetus will be born dead. Kennedy 5 The last way of terminating a pregnancy is called intact dilation and evacuation. This is also known as dilation and extraction. This practice is performed during a very-late-term pregnancy and when the mother's health is at risk. The fetus's head is partially delivered and its brain is then removed by suction. Currently, these five methods of terminating a pregnancy are being used today to abort a child. The most common being used is the dilation and evacuation. Based upon the information I have read and what learned from others, having an abortion is and can be painful. However, if the mother is constantly having an abortion each and every time she gets pregnant, then there is a chance that she will face problems when she is ready to have a child. ROE vs. WADE Abortion has always been an extremely controversial issue. There are, and will probably always be many different views concerning the ethical acceptability as well as the social policy aspects of abortion. In fact, before the decision made in the famous court case of Roe vs. Wade, abortion was morally wrong and was constituted as a crime that could lead to a prison sentence of up to five years. The Roe vs. Wade case legalized abortion during the early months of pregnancy. The court case Roe vs. Wade began when a lady named Jane Roe