Shayira Farmer senior project

On April 12 senior Shayira Farmer came to our Journalism class and presented her senior project on abortion. For the presentation she needed a powerpoint and a ten page research paper. Her Thesis was Abortion is murder and demeons the value of life. She said she picked the topic abortion because she wants to let people know that there are different things you can do if you do not want your child. These things were birth control, condoms, and adoption. Some of the facts she said was the U.S. has 1.2 million abortions each year. Shayira stated that in 1973 the U.S. legalized abortion. She worked with the youth empower program and stated that millions of women get abortions every day. She said that 50% of the women that got abortions did not think of any other way to not get an abortion. She also told us that abortion is the most common surgical procedure in the U.S. More Teenagers get abortions than older women in the U.S. Some of the reasons people got abortions is because they could not afford to have a child at a young age or because they have to focus on school and might have to take care of the child slack n their work. Shayira thinks that abortion should not be legal but if she was in a situation to have a child at the age she is at she would get an abortion.