THW construct additional abortion clinics in populated areas where there are few

Introduction:Imagine that you’re pregnant. You can’t bear to go on with the pregnancy, because your newborn would surely not fare well under your current economic state, in which you are burdened with so much debt that you could barely provide for yourself, let alone a newborn. The nearest abortion clinic is a few hundred miles away in another city—another city that you cannot travel to, considering the fact that your car has been repossessed. Desperate, you look into your kitchen cabinet and try to find out a way to end the pregnancy on your own. [4]In our world, when women have too little access to abortion clinics because they aren’t close enough to where they live, tragedies like this happen; in places with harsh regulations on abortion, abortion clinics might not even be built, forcing women to travel elsewhere to end unwanted pregnancies. This often isn’t an option, since many of the same women who cannot afford raising a family are also people who cannot afford travelling long distances. Thus, as a solution to this problem, I am proud to propose the motion that this house would construct additional abortion clinics in populated areas with none close by. Model:In this debate, this house shall be modelled as the United States, where both politicians and citizens are more opposed to abortions than their counterparts in other western liberal democracies. This proposal means that the government would construct an abortion clinic in each city where there is none. Signpost:In order to demonstrate why my proposal must be put in place, I first demonstrate that abortions benefit society and then analyse why, knowing that, we must use this proposal to make it more accessible. Constructive points:1. Benefits of abortionAbortions could benefit both the potential mother and the potential child and, in some cases, are better than their alternatives. With abortions, mothers’ lives could be saved from complications that would otherwise arise from continuing on with the pregnancy, such as severe infections, heart disease, or stroke. [1] They could also help prevent unwanted pregnancies from happening to poor women who otherwise would have given birth to a child that would financially burden them. At the same time, abortions could prevent children from being born in bad situations. The two options available to a mother who has an unwanted child are adoption and raising him on her own; neither alternative to abortion is always feasible. Children in foster care are generally in a bad state; 75% of them have been sexually abused at one point while under foster care. [5] On the other hand, having the parent raise the child isn’t always an option; the mother could be too impoverished, and the child might end up in prison or in a life of crime due to being born in a bad situation. Thus, we can see that abortions sometimes bring a benefit to both parties involved: the mother and the child.2. Accessibility of abortionSince, at least in some cases, abortions are good or even necessary, mothers everywhere should be able to choose to get an abortion. However, in the status quo, abortion clinics can be hard to find in some areas such as Mississippi or North Dakota,[2][3] and state legislatures are constantly trying to pass new bills that would make abortion clinics even rarer. This means that many women wishing to have an abortion would have to travel long distances to get one, which makes abortions practically inaccessible for poorer women who cannot afford such travel, the same women who abortions would likely benefit. The inaccessibility of abortions prevents women from benefitting from them in the manner described above, and also causes harms of its own. In states with few abortion clinics, attempts at do-it-yourself abortions are drastically higher than in states with more abortion clinics; Google search results show that users from states like Mississippi with very few clinics are more than 10% more likely to search about DIY abortions than the national average. [6] In one instance, a woman who couldn’t travel to San Antonio for an abortion called an abortion clinic and asked “what if I tell you what I have in my kitchen cabinet and you can tell me what I can do?”[4] DIY abortions are harmful to the health of women because they aren’t conducted by trained professionals and are often unsanitary. In addition, desperate impoverished women have a great incentive not to have kids; if they are unable to get an abortion in time, one possible alternative would be to abandon or even murder the child.Under my proposal, abortions would become far more accessible because there would be a clinic in every moderately sized city. Thus, the incidences of harmful DIY abortions would be reduced drastically.ConclusionAs I have demonstrated above, abortion clinics serve an important role but, in some places, aren’t accessible enough to actually help people; constructing additional clinics would aid in solving problems such as DIY abortions. Thus, this house should construct additional abortion clinics in areas where there exist few. [1]http://www.usatoday.com...[2]https://en.wikipedia.org...[3]http://www.bloomberg.com...[4]http://www.vogue.com...[5]http://www.hg.org...[6]http://www.nytimes.com...