There are approximately 42 million abortions a year and approximately 115,000 every day ("Abortion Facts| Facts on Abortion | Abortion Facts and Statistics"). Abortion is a controversial subject that everybody has an opinion about. There are several reasons as to why this is the case. Abortion is a terrible act that should be abolished because it violates the rights of the unborn child, murders the unborn child, and can cause health problems for the mother in the future. When a woman aborts her baby, she is violating the rights of the unborn child. People do not often take into consideration that everybody has rights whether be an embryo or an adult. Life begins when the sperm implants the egg- embryo. Meaning at any point from the moment
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Whether one is religious or not, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, whoever is guilty of murder in the first degree shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for life; whoever is guilty of murder in the second degree, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life. When a pregnant woman is murdered it is considered a double homicide, so the thought that a fetus is not a human is not relevant. If a fetus was not a considered a person, the system would not have an issue with a pregnant woman being murdered. ("18 U.S. Code § 1111 - Murder"). Roe vs. Wade is the main court case when talking about abortion being illegal or legal. Harry Blackmun wrote the majority opinion in this court case. The Supreme Court ruled that “All state laws barring or restricting abortions during the first three months of pregnancy violated a woman’s fundamental right to privacy.” Justices Byron White and William Rehnquist wrote against Blackmun. White brought to the table that “Nothing in the language or history of the Constitution” supported the notion of abortion. Rehnquist pointed out that state legislatures made up their own versions of abortion laws. He said that “The Court’s sweeping invalidation of any restrictions on abortion during the first trimester is impossible to …show more content…
Like stated above, the personal view of when life beings is subject to what one believes. This can be based on religious, scientific, or personal thoughts and opinions. What one has to take into consideration though, is that it is not only the one human being affect. Most women think that they have a right to their own body but do not consider that they are taking another life. No matter the stage of life that the induced miscarriage is performed, most of the time that could have been a viable life. It is important to think about adoption as an alternative. Abortion is the debate if a woman should be allowed to sacrifice another human life just because she doesn’t want to deal with it. Martin Luther King Jr. even had a say so on the subject in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, quoting St. Augustine, "An unjust law is no law at all." He says that right and wrong cannot be created through a law or Constitution if goes against basic human rights (Johnson).
As long as the world is still rotating, the controversy of abortion will still be an issue. Things like whether an embryo or fetus is considered a human, and if abortion is considered murder or not should be taken into consideration. Abortion is a prevalent problem in America and women need to realize that there are other opinions instead of murder. PAS is a prevalent syndrome among post-abortion women that could be avoided if
Whether one is religious or not, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, whoever is guilty of murder in the first degree shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for life; whoever is guilty of murder in the second degree, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life. When a pregnant woman is murdered it is considered a double homicide, so the thought that a fetus is not a human is not relevant. If a fetus was not a considered a person, the system would not have an issue with a pregnant woman being murdered. ("18 U.S. Code § 1111 - Murder"). Roe vs. Wade is the main court case when talking about abortion being illegal or legal. Harry Blackmun wrote the majority opinion in this court case. The Supreme Court ruled that “All state laws barring or restricting abortions during the first three months of pregnancy violated a woman’s fundamental right to privacy.” Justices Byron White and William Rehnquist wrote against Blackmun. White brought to the table that “Nothing in the language or history of the Constitution” supported the notion of abortion. Rehnquist pointed out that state legislatures made up their own versions of abortion laws. He said that “The Court’s sweeping invalidation of any restrictions on abortion during the first trimester is impossible to …show more content…
Like stated above, the personal view of when life beings is subject to what one believes. This can be based on religious, scientific, or personal thoughts and opinions. What one has to take into consideration though, is that it is not only the one human being affect. Most women think that they have a right to their own body but do not consider that they are taking another life. No matter the stage of life that the induced miscarriage is performed, most of the time that could have been a viable life. It is important to think about adoption as an alternative. Abortion is the debate if a woman should be allowed to sacrifice another human life just because she doesn’t want to deal with it. Martin Luther King Jr. even had a say so on the subject in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, quoting St. Augustine, "An unjust law is no law at all." He says that right and wrong cannot be created through a law or Constitution if goes against basic human rights (Johnson).
As long as the world is still rotating, the controversy of abortion will still be an issue. Things like whether an embryo or fetus is considered a human, and if abortion is considered murder or not should be taken into consideration. Abortion is a prevalent problem in America and women need to realize that there are other opinions instead of murder. PAS is a prevalent syndrome among post-abortion women that could be avoided if