Argumentative Papers On Abortion

Abortion is the premature termination of a pregnancy. There are a multitude of procedures a woman can have done in order to remove or destroy the growing fetus inside of her womb. Many pro-choice activists believe that the fetus is not yet a living organism because it cannot survive on its own. They argue that because no one is able to determine when life begins, no one is able to dictate whether or not a woman can prematurely end her pregnancy. Specific reasons that a woman may consent to an abortion include, but are not limited to: young age, new career, insufficient finances, health of mother or fetus, and so on. Another defense one might use is the right to privacy. This is the idea that everyone has a right over his or her body. This is often seen as a civil rights issue. Those who support abortion usually do so because they hold to a secularist worldview, which minimizes the value of human life by seeing it as just one more cosmic accident, and it has no greater purpose. They hold to belief where there are no absolutes, and …show more content…
A well-known verse is Jeremiah 1:5, in which Jeremiah explains that God crafted him inside of his mother’s womb, and illustrates that God already had a plan for Jeremiah before he was born. From conception, God has a plan in place for each person’s life, and man does not have the right to prematurely end the life of an unborn child in order to simply make life easier for the mother. Knowing that the fetus inside of the womb is alive, ending his or her life early would be murder, something that the Lord warns against in Exodus 20. In Genesis 1:26 God declares that man is created in His image, therefore we are of great value to Him, and bringing harm to any human, for reasons other than self-defense, is a great offense to the Lord. It is an assault on His creation and an attack on His