Against Abortion

Why is it that by 21 days into the fetal development the baby's heart begins to

beat, but yet in most people's eyes the baby is still not "technically' alive? That heart beat

means nothing, it doesn't represent a human person whom God has created in his own

image and has had a plan for that baby ever since the beginning of time. To most people

that statement isn't allowing women and their families freedom of choice. And yet that

baby isn't given any say in its freedom to live. This paper will give many supporting

statistics towards the right to life, I am pro-life.

*Forty-nine percent of pregnancies among American women are unintended, half

of these are terminated by an abortion. Each year, two out of ever one hundred women

aged fifteen- forty-four have an abortion, forty-eight percent of them have had at least

one previous abortion and sixty-one percent have had a previous birth. This means that

these women understand the joy of a baby being born, and still choose to take away their

privilege to live. They've carried this children before and know the happiness of seeing

their own healthy child in their arms for the first time. Why then, when they know they

are creating new life inside of them, choose to deprive their child the right to live and

experience everything life has to offer. They willingly decide to kill that child, certainly for

their own benefit.

Each year, an estimated forty-six million abortions occur worldwide. Of these,

twenty million procedures are obtained illegally.* Why are there stories on the news

everyday of people being murdered and mistreated and the culprit being sent to jail of

punished in some way for the crime they've committed. Yet I don't think I've ever heard

on the news of a women being sent to jail for the murder of her unborn baby. It's still

illegal, it's the murder of a child, they are given no freedom, and the mother goes

unpunished. *On average, women give at least three reasons for choosing abortion; 3/4

say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or other responsibilities; about

2/3 say they can't afford a child; and 1/2 say they don't want to be a single parent or are

having problems with their husband or partner. A baby would interfere with their

"responsibilities", one of the biggest responsibilities as a sexually active person is to use

contraceptives or discuss with their partner the consequences of having sex. If they aren't

responsible enough to do that they shouldn't be having sex to begin with. Adoption is

always an option. If having a child will interfere in their lives so much then they should

share the gift of a newborn with a couple whom are unable to have children of their own.

At least then the mother can move on with her "responsibilities" and the child isn't

deprived of it's right to live.

There are different ways to abort a baby, medical, partial-birth and simple

procedures during the early weeks of pregnancy. In September, 2000, the U.S. Food and

Drug Administration approved the abortion drug to be marketed in the U.S. as an

alternative to surgical abortion. Also called mifepristone, medical abortions are

administered within the first nine weeks of pregnancy and stops the development of the

baby and will help expel the pregnancy. Women who agree to have a medical abortion

must also agree to have a surgical abortion if the mifepristone doesn't work. About

37,000 medical abortions were performed in the first half of 2001, costing the "mother"

about $490.

Partial-birth abortion is performed in the second and third trimesters and entails

inducing a breech delivery with forceps, then delivering the legs, arms and torso only, and

puncturing the back of the skull with scissors or a trochar, next by inserting a suction

curette into the skull, and suctioning the contents of the skull so as to collapse it, and

finally completing the delivery. A partial breech delivery is not considered a "birth" at

common law, where it is the passage of the head that is essential. With the gruesome

description of this procedure, how can anyone feel remorse for the cruel treatment of the

Jews, and other minorities and not for these unborn babies?

Laws to ban this controversial late-term abortion procedure have been passed in at

least thirty states, including: Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas,

Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. Additionally, Massachusetts and

Indiana have a specific ban on state funding of these procedures. These states criminalize

the performance of partial birth abortion unless it is "necessary to save the life of the

mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder."

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