Analysis Of The First Scenes Of Spring Awakening By Wendla...

Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. However, I believe that it is a woman’s right to be able to decide for herself what she does or does not do. It is not the government’s place or a man’s role to influence her decision. During the first scenes of Spring Awakening, Wendla Bergmann begs her mother to tell her about where babies come from. Although her mother acknowledges that Wendla is becoming a young woman, she cannot bring herself to explain these life lessons to her daughter. Wendla laments about her mother giving her â€Å"no way to handle things,† in the song â€Å"Mama Who Bore Me.† Conflicted, Wendla’s mother finally responds, â€Å"to conceive a child, a woman must love her husband with all her heart.† As a result of her mother’s desire to protect the innocence within her daughter, Wendla unknowingly has sex and gets pregnant. The young girl is then forced to undergo an abortion procedure that consequentially ki lls both Wendla and her unborn child. While Donald Trump is openly against abortions, the presidential candidate said that if the procedure is banned in the United States, women who seek them should be subject to some form of punishment. The notion that women who are victims of sexual assault should be denied the right to terminate a pregnancy and then undergo further torture and torment because they sough such measures is against the values of our nation. We are faced with choices every day. Some are easier than others. Some are harder than others. However, they