Abortion

The first website I explored was the NARAL pro-choice site. This website did a good job stating the other argument and countering it without making personal attacks. The evidence from the arguments where deeply rooted in current statistics which helped my decision to which site I thought was better. It also gave many different current laws that the opposing side was trying to change and what they were planning on doing to change the restrictions on abortion. The second website I observed from the opposite point of view was the National Right to Life. Their website was much less user friendly with basically just a whole bunch of links to articles in favor of their opinion. This site didn’t talk about current laws or counter the opposing view point. The NARAL pro-choice website was much better in introducing the viewer of the website to the belief statement of the organization and did much more to show the user how they were changing current policies that restricted abortion. The requirement for parental consent for their child to get an abortion only discourages the use of it. Many parents don’t know their children are sexually active which causes tension between the child and the parent when they become pregnant. These parental consent laws only encourage teen pregnancies because the barrier between the children and the parent only grows when they have to make the confrontational conversation that they have been sexually active and got pregnant by accident. But I’m not necessarily saying that parental consent is a bad thing but I believe it shouldn’t be mandatory, but encouraged by the clinics that do abortions so that these teens can learn proper ways to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The father of the child that is going to be aborted should be ultimately notified but shouldn’t be an input in the decision. The mother has the ultimate decision because it is her body but I could see in most instances when it doesn’t involve teen pregnancy the father trying to make his voice heard because it really is also his responsibility for the next eighteen years just as much as the mother. Illinois as a whole is a very mixed basket of opinions and this reflects in the laws. If I was a part of the decision making process for abortion laws in Illinois I would approach the panel in a way to establish a wide spread opinion on this issue and make the laws accordingly. Right now Illinois is basically on the fence about the issue, it has laws that promote abortion and others that restrict it so if I was to make a change it would be to choose a side and stick to it. By making laws that encouraged only one side or the other and not both at the same time.