“Abort: One: To end a pregnancy early in order to prevent a baby from developing and
being born alive: to abort a child. Two: Cause to end fruitlessley or prematurely. Three:
Abandon or terminate” ( Student's Oxford Canadian Dictionary). Abortion is murder and should
be treated as such and be illegal and charged for just the same as any other murder. I will be
telling the facts to support why this is. Killing a person is murder, no matter how old that person
may be. The age that someone is at the time of their murder does not change the fact that it was
murder, neither does it in any way alter the definition of murder, which is, “One:To kill a human
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So why would it not be murder if a mother decides
to kill her own son or daughter only six months before that? That's right, it is still murder. That
baby that is being aborted is alive and is in fact a human; he or she is being murdered with out
even getting a chance to see the light of day. At the very latest, a baby's heart starts beating 20
days after being concieved. An abortion can not even happen until 49 days at the very earliest
because the baby has to be developed enough to be able to function on it's own in the outside
world with only a little bit of help. The human fetus must be developed enough so it can be
murdered. By only eight weeks in the mother's womb, all major organs are functioning in a
baby. The brain is working and the nervous system is working which means that by this time,
babies can feel pain and respond to it. Babies will suck their thumbs, they are able to respond to
sound and there is evidence that babies have dreams. They have a finger print by this time and
we are able to see them smile at us through ultasound. Smile at us, wow. Abortion should be
illegal and charged the same as a murder; because by the deffinition of murder being that