Abortion
There is a lot of controversy over whether abortion should be illegal or legal. Abortion is wrong and should be illegal in this country. Abortion is the process of terminating a pregnancy within the first trimester. Think about it, that is a life that doctors are taking, most people do not even think twice about it. At 7 weeks, the fetus already had arms and legs, and a brain. Unwanted pregnancies, rape, incest, birth control failure and not being able to afford to provide care are the main causes of abortion. Abortion should be illegal because adoption is the best alternative, it can result in medical complications later on in life, and it offends God. Adoption is the best alternative to abortion. “Adoption is the process of taking legal …show more content…
Keeping the baby and having to go through nine months of torture is just unfair to the woman. “This would keep reminding her for nine months of the violence committed against her and would just increase her mental anguish. It is reasoned that the value of the woman’s mental health is greater than the value of the fetus” (Beckwith). Having a baby due to rape or incest is harmful to the woman’s mental state and could result in horrible consequences. Abortion would be best to help them move on with their life, and hopefully get past their trauma. A fetus is only considered a fetus once a pregnancy has reached the 3-month mark. In the early stages of pregnancy, the fetus is not, in fact, an infant. “If we consider what it is rather than what it might become, we must acknowledge that the embryo under three months is something far more primitive than a frog or a fish. To compare it to an infant is ludicrous” (Peikof). If a woman decides to have an abortion before the first trimester is over, she is not committing murder as some say, and therefore, is not violating the potential baby’s
There is a lot of controversy over whether abortion should be illegal or legal. Abortion is wrong and should be illegal in this country. Abortion is the process of terminating a pregnancy within the first trimester. Think about it, that is a life that doctors are taking, most people do not even think twice about it. At 7 weeks, the fetus already had arms and legs, and a brain. Unwanted pregnancies, rape, incest, birth control failure and not being able to afford to provide care are the main causes of abortion. Abortion should be illegal because adoption is the best alternative, it can result in medical complications later on in life, and it offends God. Adoption is the best alternative to abortion. “Adoption is the process of taking legal …show more content…
Keeping the baby and having to go through nine months of torture is just unfair to the woman. “This would keep reminding her for nine months of the violence committed against her and would just increase her mental anguish. It is reasoned that the value of the woman’s mental health is greater than the value of the fetus” (Beckwith). Having a baby due to rape or incest is harmful to the woman’s mental state and could result in horrible consequences. Abortion would be best to help them move on with their life, and hopefully get past their trauma. A fetus is only considered a fetus once a pregnancy has reached the 3-month mark. In the early stages of pregnancy, the fetus is not, in fact, an infant. “If we consider what it is rather than what it might become, we must acknowledge that the embryo under three months is something far more primitive than a frog or a fish. To compare it to an infant is ludicrous” (Peikof). If a woman decides to have an abortion before the first trimester is over, she is not committing murder as some say, and therefore, is not violating the potential baby’s