Lesson 12 Digging Deeper: Shaping an Argument

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Lesson 12 Topic: What Percentage of Women Regret Undergoing Abortion Procedures in The Long Term?
THESIS
Most of the women choosing to undergo abortion procedures, in order to terminate pregnancies, would be regretting such a decision in the long term due to its reputed correlation with feticide.
SUPPORTING POINTS
Supporting Point 1. Women choosing to undergo abortions prefer to choose temporary relief over prolonged feelings of distress that gradually embolden due to the innate emotional connection between a mother and her child.
Supporting Point 2. Most women harbor a sense of regret due to the act of murdering their own flesh and blood, deeming it as a vile and abhorrible deed of which grief is a suitable consequence.
Supporting Point 3. Majority of the women choosing abortion tend to be young and inexperienced and concur to such a procedure in a state of panic and frenzy, influenced by the upcoming burden of responsibility.
SUPPORTING FACTS OR EXAMPLES
Supporting Facts or Examples 1. The formulation of the maternal bond from the early onset of pregnancy is widely justified by medical publications, terming it as a period of “socialization” that affects both the mother and child by the manner in which the relationship is managed (Bornstein et al. par. 10).
Supporting Facts or Examples 2. A study published in The Journal of Clinical Ethics confirms that the psychiatric consequences faced by women long after undergoing abortions are due to the choice of partaking in an activity that is analogous to feticide (Brown et al.

par. 1).
Supporting Facts or Examples 3. CDC reports that the highest rates of abortion are evident in females aged around 20 years and the usually preferred time for abortion is during the early phases of gestation (Jatlaoui et al. par. 3).
ANTICIPATED COUNTERARGUMENTS
Anticipated Counterargument 1. The period of socialization only strengthens with the passage of time whereas abortions usually terminate pregnancies early on.
Anticipated Counterargument 2. The negative psychiatric feeling can also be influenced by confounders such as lack of government, family, and/or partner support that is needed for the healthy development of any young woman.
Anticipated Counterargument 3. The inexperience is not the cause for abortion but the lack of public health mechanisms needed to empower young women to feel confident in taking major life decisions is to be blamed for regret.
CONCLUSION
In light of the evidence provided, the original hypothesis encompassed within the thesis statement proves to be significant wherein it can be concluded that women do incrementally harbor regret and grief after undergoing abortion due to the correlation of the procedure with murder.
Works Cited
Bornstein, M. H., Suwalsky, J. T. D., and Breakstone, D. A. “Emotional Relationships between Mothers – and Infants: Known, Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns.” Development and Psychopathology 24.1 (2012): A4. Web. 27 Dec. 2018. Accessible at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426791/Brown, D., Elkins, T. E., and Larson, D. B. “Prolonged grieving after abortion: a descriptive study.” The Journal of Clinical Ethics 4.2 (1993): A4. Web. 27 Dec. 2018. Accessible at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8334275Jatlaoui, T. C., Boutot, M. E., Mandel, M. G., Whiteman, M. K., Ti, A., Petersen, E., and Pazol, K. “Abortion Surveillance-United States, 2015.” Surveillance Summaries 67.13 (2018): A4. Web. 27 Dec. 2018. Accessible at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/ss/ss6713a1.htm