The Unborn

As a writer of the Lost Generation, Ernest Hemingway wrote about many difficult human realities. In fact, throughout Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants, the author illustrates the theme of abortion despite its setting in 1927. Although it does not blatantly say what exactly the circumstance is that the two characters face, the use of a sense of vagueness, symbolism, characterization, and uncertain mood helps to explain the looming issue and their indecisiveness towards it. Noting that this…

The Sixth Commandment of the Bible says, “Thou shalt not kill”(Exodus 20:13), this command does not apply to only born babies and grown humans, this applies to unborn children as well. A commandment is a law given by God himself for every human being to follow. In Jeremiah 1:5 God says, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sacrificed thee...” God sees all…

reasons, spiritual reasons or mental reasons but regardless of what the reason is they all ultimately end the possibility of a human being born. Even if a mother is otherwise healthy and the unwanted pregnancy does not pose a threat to her or her unborn baby’s overall health the “physical” reason may be that she does not want the pregnancy to change certain aspects of her pre-pregnancy body. Even though the mother may have access to financial resources that would reasonably allow her to carry…

Regardless of the situation, it takes a toll mentally on everyone involved. The decision to terminate a pregnancy can strain the relationship between the mother and father of the child. In Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants”, the mother to the unborn child is afraid after her procedure the father will not love her anymore. She questions him about their future, saying “you think then we’ll be all right and be happy”. Even though she knows it’s for the best she doesn’t want to lose her…

lead to everyone being "perfect", which is not how our society works. A society filled with discrimination should not be allowing science to encourage a method that allows narrow-minded and biased parents to be able to select everything about their unborn baby. Using this method will spark gender stereotypes and the assumption that one sex is superior to the other. For example, is engineered to be intelligent, to live longer, and to live a life without a disorder, may lead to demographic…

run more smoothly. Another important influence is mental illnesses both parents should try avoiding any type of infections because it is crucial for the fetus. Furthermore maternal anxiety and stress during pregnancy may have harmful effects on the unborn child. Maternal age is also a serious issue that cannot be taken lightly the reason being women over 30 to 35 years and over are at risk for experiencing a premature delivery and are at high risk for their child to show retarded fetal growth,…

a pregnant women, argued the fact that if abortion is was illegal, then it violates the 14th amendment. On January 22nd, 1973, the supreme court voted with Roe that illegal abortion violates a woman's right to privacy. Since that day millions of unborn citizens rights and lives have been lost. On an update is January of 2015 approximately 57.5 million babies have lost their lives. In every war the United States has been involved in combined, the number of deaths is still less than how many…

environment, I mainly focused on drug use, but there is more than just that. A mother’s diet, a mother’s age, a mother’s prenatal support, her health, drug use, and use of alcohol and tobacco, all have a possibility of disrupting the development of an unborn child. For example, when I plan to become a mother, I should be aware of my own health first, I should assure that when I am pregnant that I have a proper diet for supporting the developing child, I should assure my body is healthy enough to…

adoption. Realizing that many people may want their own children, this life threating instance may not happen in any other of the woman’s future pregnancies, so why would someone lose all chances of that by terminating the mothers’ life instead of the unborn child’s. While choosing to terminate the pregnancy, to save the mother’s life, undoubtedly causes guilt it also opens many more doors for the…

free man, the would pay 10 shekels of silver. That’s way too unjust! He does have to pay, of course, but an 8 shekel difference? These examples show that Hammurabi’s Code was unjust because an unborn baby, no matter what race or who it’s being carried by, is harmless and is worth the same as any other unborn…