Every Child Deserves a Chance
Over 54 million “unimportant and unwanted mistakes” have been stripped of the right to live. That’s 54 million less people to be loved, appreciated, cherished, and respected, even if not by the actual biological parents, but by an adoptive parent. Children who could have been future presidents, lawyers, physicians, businessmen or women, architects, moms, dads, soldiers, etc.. Abortion threatens both the individual rights of human beings and the common good. The unconstitutional law that lets women have abortions needs to be changed. Every child deserves a chance at life. An abortion, defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is a “medical procedure used to end a pregnancy and cause the death of the fetus.” Abortions …show more content…
Instead, they should consider putting the child up for adoption. Each year in the US, 51,000 American children, on average, are put up for adoption. In addition, an estimated 6,500 foreign children are adopted by Americans. That is a total of almost 58,000 children adopted per year. That isn’t even including the somewhere between one and two million couples waiting to adopt in the US today. “It soon occurred to me with tremendous force that every child is... infinitely valuable and beautiful, no matter how (unplanned or) inconvenient. From that heart-stopping realization to making... signs (for pro-life campaigns) was just a short step. I looked around our country and realized that our culture … (believes that) nothing restricts personal liberty like (an unplanned) pregnancy and parenthood. As a doctor I can tell you that no scientist questions the fact that a zygote, embryo, fetus and infant are all human beings in different stages of development. Those who believe in unrestricted abortion license do not acknowledge the conflicting right of the little human being, who might be (unplanned or inconvenient), but is just as valuable and beautiful as a wanted child.” (Christie, Grazie.) Many think that adoption is a horrible experience to put a child through. However, there are many benefits. Adopted children are more likely to be read to, be sung to, or told stories to every day as a young child. They are more likely to participate in extracurricular activities as school-age children. More than half of adopted children are reported to have excellent or very good performance in reading, language arts and math. Often times children who have been adopted feel secure in their relationship with their adoptive family. They come to terms with their adoption are able to lead happy, healthy and
Over 54 million “unimportant and unwanted mistakes” have been stripped of the right to live. That’s 54 million less people to be loved, appreciated, cherished, and respected, even if not by the actual biological parents, but by an adoptive parent. Children who could have been future presidents, lawyers, physicians, businessmen or women, architects, moms, dads, soldiers, etc.. Abortion threatens both the individual rights of human beings and the common good. The unconstitutional law that lets women have abortions needs to be changed. Every child deserves a chance at life. An abortion, defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is a “medical procedure used to end a pregnancy and cause the death of the fetus.” Abortions …show more content…
Instead, they should consider putting the child up for adoption. Each year in the US, 51,000 American children, on average, are put up for adoption. In addition, an estimated 6,500 foreign children are adopted by Americans. That is a total of almost 58,000 children adopted per year. That isn’t even including the somewhere between one and two million couples waiting to adopt in the US today. “It soon occurred to me with tremendous force that every child is... infinitely valuable and beautiful, no matter how (unplanned or) inconvenient. From that heart-stopping realization to making... signs (for pro-life campaigns) was just a short step. I looked around our country and realized that our culture … (believes that) nothing restricts personal liberty like (an unplanned) pregnancy and parenthood. As a doctor I can tell you that no scientist questions the fact that a zygote, embryo, fetus and infant are all human beings in different stages of development. Those who believe in unrestricted abortion license do not acknowledge the conflicting right of the little human being, who might be (unplanned or inconvenient), but is just as valuable and beautiful as a wanted child.” (Christie, Grazie.) Many think that adoption is a horrible experience to put a child through. However, there are many benefits. Adopted children are more likely to be read to, be sung to, or told stories to every day as a young child. They are more likely to participate in extracurricular activities as school-age children. More than half of adopted children are reported to have excellent or very good performance in reading, language arts and math. Often times children who have been adopted feel secure in their relationship with their adoptive family. They come to terms with their adoption are able to lead happy, healthy and