Abortion
“From Roe v. Wade through 2011, nearly 53 million legal abortions were performed in the United States – an average of about 1.4 million abortions per year. At 2008 abortion rates, three in ten US women will have an abortion before age 45” (“Should Abortion” 7). Abortion is murder. For anyone to think that the beginning of life starts any time after the fusing of the woman’s egg and a male’s sperm is completely irrational. Even if life begins as a small cell, it still starts, nevertheless. It is completely immoral and wrong to kill a human being that has no voice in the decision.
Abortion is legal murder. Murder is defined as the unlawful killing of one human being by another, especially with malice and forethought. The definition …show more content…
(“Live Video”) These choices should not be choices at all. They are cruel, and they should not be allowed to happen in a civilized country like the United States. Abortion also often causes psychological complications and problems with stress for the mother. (Lowen 1). There are many health problems that abortion causes on the mother. “An abortion can result in medical complications later in life; the risk of ectopic pregnancies doubles, and the chance of a miscarriage and pelvic inflammatory disease also increases” (Lowen 1). “Abortion promotes a culture in which human life is disposable. The legalization of abortion sends a message that human life has little value” (“Should Abortion” 3) People say that you are not killing a baby, you are killing a fetus. People try to make it easier on themselves. It is a fetus, but it is also an innocent baby. When it comes to the topic of abortion, fetus is a term used to dehumanize an innocent life. “Abortion is in direct defiance of the commonly accepted idea of the sanctity of human life” (Lowen 1). If society thinks that it is okay to kill innocent lives, who will we think it is okay to kill next? The fact that it is actually legal to kill your own child shows a loss of morals and a lessening value for human life. “Life begins at conception, so unborn babies are human beings with a right to life” (“Should Abortion”
“From Roe v. Wade through 2011, nearly 53 million legal abortions were performed in the United States – an average of about 1.4 million abortions per year. At 2008 abortion rates, three in ten US women will have an abortion before age 45” (“Should Abortion” 7). Abortion is murder. For anyone to think that the beginning of life starts any time after the fusing of the woman’s egg and a male’s sperm is completely irrational. Even if life begins as a small cell, it still starts, nevertheless. It is completely immoral and wrong to kill a human being that has no voice in the decision.
Abortion is legal murder. Murder is defined as the unlawful killing of one human being by another, especially with malice and forethought. The definition …show more content…
(“Live Video”) These choices should not be choices at all. They are cruel, and they should not be allowed to happen in a civilized country like the United States. Abortion also often causes psychological complications and problems with stress for the mother. (Lowen 1). There are many health problems that abortion causes on the mother. “An abortion can result in medical complications later in life; the risk of ectopic pregnancies doubles, and the chance of a miscarriage and pelvic inflammatory disease also increases” (Lowen 1). “Abortion promotes a culture in which human life is disposable. The legalization of abortion sends a message that human life has little value” (“Should Abortion” 3) People say that you are not killing a baby, you are killing a fetus. People try to make it easier on themselves. It is a fetus, but it is also an innocent baby. When it comes to the topic of abortion, fetus is a term used to dehumanize an innocent life. “Abortion is in direct defiance of the commonly accepted idea of the sanctity of human life” (Lowen 1). If society thinks that it is okay to kill innocent lives, who will we think it is okay to kill next? The fact that it is actually legal to kill your own child shows a loss of morals and a lessening value for human life. “Life begins at conception, so unborn babies are human beings with a right to life” (“Should Abortion”