Contemporary Issues
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Introduction.
Contemporary Issue: Abortion
Abortion is the elimination of an embryo or fetus from the uterus. Abortion is a controversial issue with no common ground among those who agree and oppose it.
For Abortion
The constitution permits the legalization of abortion. Abortion is included in the right to privacy and the reproductive right as a counted right. Abortion is aimed at decreasing the number of unsafe abortions and make it accessible to those who need it. Furthermore, every woman is entitled to an abortion procedure when he or she needs it. She has the decision to make decisions about what happens to her body. Additionally, for decades, women have fought for their right to vote and be elected in offices; they have also fought to be counted as independent and not be counted alongside men. Hence it is their sole right to determine what happens to their body. Taking this fundamental right from them would cause a negative impact on the strides that have been made through the years in advance for women’s rights (Smyth, 2017).
Women should not be forced to carry a baby after the gruesome effects of rape. Such babies would serve as a painful reminder of the ordeal. Furthermore, the baby may have various complications due to the ordeal, so abortion is a solution in such a scenario.
Against
First of all, each and everyone should have responsibility for their actions and behavior. Many people use abortion to avoid bearing a child, so they may abort every time they feel like. Abortion also means killing life and further endangering the life of the mother in the process. Many view a fetus as a thing, and so they abort as a means of avoiding pregnancy.
Secondly, abortion is a highly dangerous affair. It is not as easy as people envision it. Abortion may cause a woman to be permanently barren and can even cause death to the baby’s mother is removed.
Contemporary Issue Two: Capital Punishment
The death penalty or capital punishment refers to the forms of punishment that the government gives to offenders, primarily death (Sarat, 2018).
For
Capital punishment saves the federal government billions of dollars since many prisoners are not confined in various prisons. Secondly, capital punishment creates closure to the family of the victims who has heavily suffered in the perpetrators’ hands. Furthermore, capital helps create deterrence to committing the same crime once again. Moreover, when capital punishment is meted, Justice is served to the victims of crimes such as rape and murder who will never be the same again due to the crime committed. The Justice system has for long showed sympathy to offenders who should be eliminated from the face of the earth.
Against
On the off chance that you murder somebody, don’t you lose the option to remain alive yourself? Furthermore, if individuals realize they may be executed for perpetrating wrongdoing, would they say they aren’t more averse to do it? In any case, if it’s a wrongdoing to slaughter somebody, for what reason is the administration permitted to do it? An eye for an eye mentality is wrong, and so should not be encouraged since the notion could spill to other sections of governance and life. Furthermore, the perpetrator’s family usually undergoes pain whenever they imagine that their loved one would be put to death by the state and undergo various emotional cases and appeals. Capital punishment goes against the Bill of Rights provisions, where it says every human being is entitled to live, and no one is allowed by law to take the life of another individual under any circumstance.
References
Sarat, A. (2018). When the state kills: Capital punishment and the American condition. Princeton University Press.
Smyth, L. (2017). Abortion and Nation: The politics of reproduction in contemporary Ireland. Routledge.