Sunrah Jones Block 1 Mr. Gloyd
Pregnant
To some, getting pregnant is the biggest blessing that they can receive. They are so happy to finally be a parent that they rush around the house, smiling at everyone; looking at empty rooms and thinking “this room might be good for a baby,”. They are ready for the responsibility that comes with raising a child and they have the support to manage through the ‘tough times’. Unfortunately, not all people who get pregnant have a similar story, especially if you are a teenager. So what do you do? With every pregnancy, you are given several options: you can either keep the child and raise it , put it up for adoption, or terminate the pregnancy.
A study has shown that between the year I was born [1994] and 2006, more then 54.8 percent of the Teenagers registered in the system, got pregnant , with only 37.2 percent of those people actually deciding to give birth to their child. For a women, deciding what to do with your baby is one of the most challenging decisions in the world. What most teens don’t realize when they make the decision to raise the child, is the challenges that go along with it. A new born is the farthest thing from a walk in the park. They require more time and money then a teen can make working part time and going to school. This is one of the main reasons most teen moms drop out of school within the first month of having their child. The amount of time a baby consumes of your life is more then most people can handle, especially the first couple months, when the child is unable to sleep through the night. And financially, the cost of diapers alone can bring a part time worker up short.
This explains why just a little less then half of the women who become pregnant choose to terminate their pregnancy. To terminate a pregnancy means that the women has the fetus removed from her body. This is done by first placing her on a mild anesthetic, then dilating the cervix and inserting a suction tube that cleans off the walls of the uterus. The process takes about four hours then afterwards you are given Advil or some prescribed drug for cramping. Most abortion patience experience severe cramping and bleeding after their abortion for anywhere from 1 to 14 days. Although this option seems simple, it is emotionally one of the hardest decision to make. Most women that don’t
do it, chose not to because they believe it is morally wrong. They think that terminating a pregnancy is murder for the child and is incorrect because the child has no say in the matter.
When you are unable to care personally for the child, to far along or unwilling to terminate the pregnancy, the remaining women decide to place their child up for adoption. There are two ways to have your child adopted: open or closed. An open adoption means that you work with a service to find parents for your child and are legally aloud to see and have contact with your baby and his or her adopted family. Most people that want to adopt a child ask for a closed adoption though. A closed adoption is when the mother relinquishes all rights for the child to the adopted family and refrain from contacting him or her until he or she is 18`or older.
With every Pregnancy women have several options. The women can have her baby and raise him or her up yourself which can be a very costly ordeal that can affect your schooling and force a teen to live a life that most are not ready for. She could also abort, which is about a four hour process that the mother undergoes to remove the fetus from the walls of her uterus. The third option is adoption that can either be open or closed and is in my belief the most hardest decision of the three because you not only have to carry the baby to term like you were if you were to keep the child, you also have to willingly give him or her up, which is mentally similar to an abortion. If you are a teen, there is really no beating the options, so the best thing to do is refrain from being placed in that position.
Work Cited
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080321183324AAiWGlf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy
http://www.garlikov.com/abortion.html