Would you want someone else having the power to decide whether you live or die? Would you want your life to end before it starts? Abortion does just that. Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, so the baby is not born. Both sides of this topic can be taken to the extreme. Some people believe women have a right to their own body and they are correct, but the child also has a right to at least have the chance to live a long, wholesome life. Abortions end lives, cause the fetuses pain, and leave lasting psychological damage on the would-have-been mothers, therefore, abortion should be illegal. Many people commit abortion without thinking of the fetus as a child. They keep emotions out of the equation, but fetuses grow up to be real people.
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We may never know the actual extent of the pain they feel, and every fetus probably feels different levels depending on their development at the time. Everyday the fetus is growing and developing into a live human. While most people have their abortion in the first trimester, there are those who have them later on. One source says “about 90 percent of abortions occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy; about 1.3 percent take place after the 21st week” (Eichenwald). In the article “Can Fetuses Feel Pain?” by Stuart Derbyshire, he writes, “The US Government is considering legislation that will require doctors to inform women seeking abortions that ‘there is substantial evidence that the process of being killed in an abortion will cause the unborn child pain.’ The bill mandates that a fetus of more than 22 weeks’ gestation age should receive pain reducing drugs before an abortion. Doctors who fail to comply can be fined $100,000 and can lose their license and Medicaid funding” (Derbyshire). If the fetus must be given pain reducing drugs then it should be obvious that the pain they feel is real and excruciating. This invalidates the argument that the fetus is not a real person yet. People feel
We may never know the actual extent of the pain they feel, and every fetus probably feels different levels depending on their development at the time. Everyday the fetus is growing and developing into a live human. While most people have their abortion in the first trimester, there are those who have them later on. One source says “about 90 percent of abortions occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy; about 1.3 percent take place after the 21st week” (Eichenwald). In the article “Can Fetuses Feel Pain?” by Stuart Derbyshire, he writes, “The US Government is considering legislation that will require doctors to inform women seeking abortions that ‘there is substantial evidence that the process of being killed in an abortion will cause the unborn child pain.’ The bill mandates that a fetus of more than 22 weeks’ gestation age should receive pain reducing drugs before an abortion. Doctors who fail to comply can be fined $100,000 and can lose their license and Medicaid funding” (Derbyshire). If the fetus must be given pain reducing drugs then it should be obvious that the pain they feel is real and excruciating. This invalidates the argument that the fetus is not a real person yet. People feel