Essay - Abortion and Women's Rights Abstract the Issue of Abortion and...

Abortion and Women's Rights

Abstract

The issue of abortion and abortion rights is a contentious subject that has raised a considerable amount ***** ethical and legal debate. However the rights of a woman to have an abortion are inextricably linked to other aspects of hum***** *****. The issue ***** abortion rights should therefore not be seen in isolation but ***** be considered in conjunction with and in relation to the general ********** of human and gender rights. In this context there cannot be an argument against ***** rights for women. There are also many examples of social realities, such as rape, discrimination and oppression that justify the right ***** women to choose to have an abortion. The question of abortion as a ***** ***** should therefore be ***** in the l*****rger and wider social ***** cultural *****; as well as in relation to ***** human ***** issues.

***** and Women's Rights

The issue of reproductive rights is an import*****t aspect ***** ********** rights and is one of ***** central issues in human rights debated in various regions throughout the world. The problem of reproductive rights is therefore inextricably ***** to larger women's rights ********** in that sex ***** reproduction ***** often used as ways of oppressing women in various cultures. Reproductive rights therefore refer ***** the issue of choice and the right for women ***** not men to decide for themselves - particularly with regard ***** their bodies and the important *****s ***** pregnancy and childbirth.

One study on this issue states ***** problem in the following way.

THE RIGHT to choose is just ***** aspect of a much larger issue of reproductive ***** - women's ***** to control ********** own ***** and reproductive lives. Although in recent decades the battle ***** centered around the right ***** abortion, ***** includes more than the right to terminate an unwanted *****--but also the ***** to ***** children

***** is every woman's right) central contention of this paper is that, in the light of the relationship between ***** reproductive rights and human rights in general, it ***** argued that the right to abortion is essentially a women's prerogative. This study will explore the various arguments ***** support ***** right of women to choose ***** themselves. The central thesis can therefore be summed up as follows: the ***** to legal ***** safe abortion and the ***** decision to terminate a pregn*****ncy forms part of ***** is intimately linked ***** the o*****r women's ***** and should not be seen as an *****olated aspect, but as a necessary part ***** the ***** issues relating to women's rights.

***** rights are defined clearly in the following quotation.

Reproductive rights include the rights of all individuals to control over ********** own bodies, to have sex that is consensual, free from violence and coercion, ***** to enter marriage ***** the free and full consent of both parties. Reproductive rights are essential for ***** exercise of their right to health. Women's ***** ***** concern the *****dom that women must *****