Abortion And Adoption Case Study

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5. I believe that abortion should be illegal except for in circumstances where the mother’s life is in jeopardy or rape. • When life begins
- Life begins at fertilization when the sperm and egg join together to form one human zygote with a complete set of 23 pairs of chromosomes.
- Princeton University states, “ The product of fertilization is a living human being with 46 chromosomes. “
- 46 chromosomes is the complete set of chromosomes in the human genome and thus during fertilization when the zygote develops is when they are characterized as a member of human species.
• Murder
- Abortion is the killing of an unborn innocent child in the mother’s womb.
- Abortionist Judith Arcana admits, “We should never disregard the fact that being pregnant
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• Life of the mother
- One stipulation that I have towards abortion is that I believe that if the mother’s life is in jeopardy and having the baby could potentially kill her, she should have the choice to choose whether she wanted to continue with the pregnancy or get an abortion.
- When the life of the mother is in jeopardy the situation then becomes a decision the family should get to make because of the woman’s life at stake. This terrible occasion is one special stipulation to abortion because the woman has to choose if she wants to risk dying while having the baby or if they should continue and have the baby.
- This is a rare circumstance but it is still a hypothetical situation that could happen. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System stated, “1294 deaths that occurred within a year of pregnancy termination were pregnancy-related.”
- US Abortion Statistics states, “Only 12% of women included a physical problem with their health among reasons for having an
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• The U.S. Constitution never directly states that individuals have the right to privacy it only reflects the concerns of protecting certain rights such as the privacy of belief that is in the first amendment.
• The right to privacy is never absolute because other rights, such as the right to life, govern it.
• Natalie Tansill states, “when a woman makes a decision to kill her child by having an abortion, that decision doesn’t affect only her, but another person’s also. That choice infringes the right of the child for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
- All women have the right to their own body and that includes a fetus because it is in the mother’s woman and dependent on their mother for survival.
• I agree that a woman does that have the right to her own body, but the unborn baby as well has rights that are protected by the government.
• The baby is separate from their mother and father with different DNA and its own organs such as a heart and

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