Imagine a world where murder is legal. The average person would picture thousands of criminals killing people in the streets with thousands of others fleeing for safety. But think again. That world is here. That world is now. The only difference is those who are being murdered are unable to scream for help. In the United States and across the world, abortions are used to end the lives of babies with their entire lives ahead of them. Abortion should be illegal in all circumstances because it robs an innocent person of life. The abortion industry in America is greatly flawed, but the worst aspect of it is its refusal to acknowledge that a fetus is a living, human being. In the womb, fetuses begin to look more and more like the average newborn
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There is not one single person on earth who can say that they have never been physically hurt before. Babies still in the womb also share in this aspect of human life, even as early as a few months before they are born. When fetuses twenty weeks and older are given surgery while still in the womb, they are given medicine to numb the pain (Johnson). Physicians have studied these fetuses reacting to painful stimuli, so anesthesia is administered before surgery (Johnson). Abortion, of course, is something that would involve extreme pain for the child in the womb. Even though it has been proven that fetuses can feel everything that is happening to them after about twenty weeks gestation, it is still completely legal for abortions to take place extremely late and close to the time the child is due to be …show more content…
Late-term and partial-birth abortions are legal in America due to liberals fighting for the inclusion of a health "exception" ("Late-Term Abortions..."). Congress has looked into banning partial-birth abortions, but President Obama and other liberals insisted that this "exception" must be included: if the abortionist judges that the safest method of performing the abortion would be to partially deliver the child, crush its skull, and vacuum out its brains, then he/she must be free to do so ("Late-Term
There is not one single person on earth who can say that they have never been physically hurt before. Babies still in the womb also share in this aspect of human life, even as early as a few months before they are born. When fetuses twenty weeks and older are given surgery while still in the womb, they are given medicine to numb the pain (Johnson). Physicians have studied these fetuses reacting to painful stimuli, so anesthesia is administered before surgery (Johnson). Abortion, of course, is something that would involve extreme pain for the child in the womb. Even though it has been proven that fetuses can feel everything that is happening to them after about twenty weeks gestation, it is still completely legal for abortions to take place extremely late and close to the time the child is due to be …show more content…
Late-term and partial-birth abortions are legal in America due to liberals fighting for the inclusion of a health "exception" ("Late-Term Abortions..."). Congress has looked into banning partial-birth abortions, but President Obama and other liberals insisted that this "exception" must be included: if the abortionist judges that the safest method of performing the abortion would be to partially deliver the child, crush its skull, and vacuum out its brains, then he/she must be free to do so ("Late-Term