...you know that every year 1.3 million women kill their unborn child? An estimated 43% of all women will have at least one abortion by the time they are 45 years old.” These women all have abortion and give up the joy of being a mother. They also take away the life of an innocent baby (AbortionNO). “Abortion is the tearing of unborn life from limb to limb to end a pregnancy.” (Crossed) Abortion is killing. At the moment of conception, a new and unique human being comes into existence with its own genetically distinct DNA. It may be a different sex and have a different blood type than the mother. (AbortionNO). Abortion is never the way to handle a pregnancy because there are many side effects, there are other options, and it is murder. Abortions go back to the 1800’s. It used to be a matter no one would speak of. “Choices once unanimously considered criminal and rejected by the common moral sense are gradually becoming socially acceptable; it’s the culture of death” (Paul). Abortion was a back alley process, but now it is accepted by people and considered a women’s “choice”. There are also laws allowing these killings to happen. This has become a very controversial issue in today’s society. Some believe it is a women’s right to do what she wants with her body. While others think that life is started at the time of conception, which is why having an abortion is killing a life. ...
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...Abortion: It’s Wrong Imagine not having any say in whether or not you want to have a life. How would you feel if someone took away your right to live? That’s the question women should ask themselves when they decide to have an abortion. Babies don’t have that choice or any other say in whether they want to live or not. To me, abortion is a selfish act. Children are the future and their ability to make a difference in the world is taken away when they are aborted. Adoption is an alternative for abortion. Instead of killing the baby, give it to a family who can’t have children. Abortions can also have long time effects on the mother. Last but not least, abortions are murder. When the thought of abortion occurs, women should consider adoption. Adoption is the best alternative other than abortion when a woman does not want her child. In the article, Why Do More People Choose Abortion Over Adoption?, Kristi Burton Brown stated: “In the USA, there are approximately two million infertile couples are waiting to adopt, many times regardless of the child’s medical problems such as Down Syndrome, Spina Bifida, HIV infection or terminally ill”. Putting a child up for adoption will give them a better chance at a happier life rather than abortion. Adoption also gives the opportunity to families who would love to raise a child as their own. Not to mention, adoption is the best solution and safer for the mother. Abortions can harm the mother and have long term effects on her body and...
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...Pro-Life How would you feel if someone took away your ability to live? Many women across the United States are having the procedure of abortion done, which is the termination of a pregnancy. To kill an unborn using horrible procedures is not only wrong for the doctors to perform, but morally wrong too. I believe abortion should only be legal if it is done in the first trimester of pregnancy or if a pregnancy will physically effect the mother. Besides those reasons, abortion should be outlawed because abortion is considered murder, unwanted babies can be adopted, and abortion can harm the mother’s body. Abortion is simply murder because you are killing a living being for your own interests or reasons. Firstly, pro-choice activists believe that aborting a fetus is not murder because it isn’t a human being yet. According to an article from sexinfo.edu on arguments for and against abortion, “The fetus is a human being from the moment of conception, this means abortion is murder.” Secondly, pro-choice activists also say that the baby will not feel any pain which is not only untrue but it also is painful for the mother. According to an article called Do Unborn Children Feel pain, “Many pro-life doctors maintain that fetuses can feel pain by 8 weeks after fertilization (about the time most surgical abortions take place).” Lastly, it is unfair to the baby who has no say in anything to be aborted. “The child who is in the womb of the mother has not done anything wrong to deserve...
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...Abortion: The Truth and Alternatives Abortion has been a very sensitive and controversial topic for numerous years, and still is today. Over the years, the number of women who have had abortion performed has risen. Can there be steps taken to lower this number, though? Sure, you can tell someone to use contraceptives to prevent an unwanted pregnancy, but that does no good if they have already conceived an unwanted child. There are alternative options for women who have an unwanted pregnancy. They just need to take the time to look into these alternatives. These alternatives can bring healing and in many cases, can even draw a connection between two or more individuals, so why not choose a positive alternative to abortion? In case some may not know what an abortion is, it’s the intentional termination of a pregnancy after conception. It allows women to put an end to their pregnancies, but involves killing the undeveloped embryo or fetus. The procedure involves dilating the cervix and inserting a long tube into the uterus for extraction of the fetus’s body parts, and lastly crushing the head of the fetus and extracting it as well. Knowing how this procedure is performed, many do not see it as positive. In America, abortion is legal due to the political issue that a woman has the right to her own body, but does this mean a woman should resort to an abortion because of an unwanted pregnancy? This may seem morally wrong, but despite the contrary, in rare cases women resort to an...
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...Abortion Thou shall not murder is one of the Ten Commandments from the Bible. Is a mother's right to choose considered murder? Several states in our country still allow the capital punishment for criminals who have committed heinous crimes. We, as a nation however, have moved on to the innocent and the unborn. It seems that our culture in today's time is strictly based on convenience. So why shouldn't terminating pregnancies be the same as committing murder? First of all, I would like to provide some interesting facts on abortion. Abortion became legal in the United States in 1973 with the landmark decision in Roe versus Wade. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Guttmacher Institute (AGI), there were 1.21 million abortions in the United States in 2008, which is the most recent data available. Abortion is the most common outpatient surgical procedure currently performed as noted by the Abortion Clinic Services. The leading state in the nation in the number of abortions in 2008 was New York, followed by Florida and Texas. The annual number of legal abortions doubled between 1973 and 1978 and peaked in 1990. There was a slow but steady decline in the number of legal abortions in the 1990s. There was then a 3.7% decrease in the number of abortions from 2000 to 2008. Nearly half of the number of pregnancies in American women are unintended with approximately 40% of those ending in abortion. According to AGI, 22% of all United States pregnancies end in...
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...Title: “Effects of abortion in the Philippines “ Objectives: 1. Identify the different causes of abortion. 2. To distinguish the reaction of others. 3. To know the effect of abortion in everyday life. Submitted by: Submitted to: Group 4 Mrs. N.C. Azuela Ma. Pauleen Omalin Juan Czarino Pimping Mark Dennis Pague Elainalyn Padilla Maricar Pehipol Maylyn Quiñosa Ely Paciente INTRODUCTION It is estimated that 2.4 million legally married Filipino women no longer want anadditional child (PFPP, DOH Overview, 1990}. This was based on a health survey which revealed that 63% of urban poor married women of reproductive age did not want an additional child, and nearly two-fifths did not plan their pregnancies. Of those pregnant during the survey, 41% admitted that their pregnancy was unwanted. (Phil. Star, 17 Feb1989) This number falls within the estimated 155,000 to 750,000 induced abortions estimated per year by De la Rosa (1987). Those women who did not want another pregnancy and those at high risk of complications including death are potential seekers of induced abortion. Found that 70% of women who were admitted for induced abortion in 8 hospitals studied in 5 health regions no longer wanted an additional child. This was also true of more than half of those who had spontaneous abortion (55.2%), and even those who had normal deliveries...
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...10 November 2015 Freedom of Choice: A Woman’s Right In 2011, approximately 1.06 million abortions took place in the United States. 85.5% of those abortions were performed on unmarried women. The reasons vary on why a women chooses abortion over birth. From having unprotected sex, failure of birth control and even rape are to name but a few. Either way, the birth of a child comes with lifelong responsibilities and affects both mother and child (Abort 73.com, 2009). Regardless of the reasons for choosing abortion, it comes down to having the freedom to choose what happens to our bodies. It is our bodies that will be subjected to the changes pregnancy brings as well as the risks. It is our finances that will support that child throughout its life. It is our maternal skills that will raise that child to be a caring, valuable member of society. Members of congress or pro-life advocates are not going to come to our homes and do these things for us so therefore, it has to be our choice to control whether we proceed with or terminate a pregnancy. If termination is our choice then we should have access to that option in a clean, safe environment. With over one million women choosing abortion over giving birth, lends to the supporting evidence in favor of right to choose arguments. Women should not be dictated to by laws of government or religious ideology in regards to their own bodies. They should retain control and be free to exercise their freedom of choice. Pregnancy can be a wonderful...
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...Abortion should continue to be a legalised surgical procedure. After much discussion abortion has finally become legalised in most countries, but was it the right choice to make? Abortion is the greatest cause of death in NSW and many women regret ever having an abortion. Many women suffer from pain and discomfort from the result of an abortion, when they could easily save their babies life and continue on with theirs, by putting it up for adoption. There are many women out there who continue to have abortions. It is the safest surgical procedure and if abortion became illegal it would result in even more deaths. Unwanted babies can ruin not only teenagers but many other women’s careers, sometimes resulting in an unsuccessful life. Abortion has and continues to be a major issue in society that clearly needs to be resolved. Each year there are sixty to seventy million abortions which occur worldwide, eighty thousand of those occur in Australia and forty thousand occur in New South Wales alone. Forty-one percent of deaths that occur in Australia are caused from having abortions, this makes it the greatest cause of death in Australia. The first place that a baby lives is in the womb. Although it may seem very safe and secure for the baby, it is actually the most dangerous place for an Australian to live. Eight-hundred abortions are performed each week in New South Wales and ninety-eight percent of those are done for convenience. Sometimes teenagers may not want their parents to...
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...Pro-Choice Abortion is a topic that has invaded the sanctity of our dinner table conversations, our English papers and even our court rooms. We are bombarded with those who are pro-life calling abortion doctors “baby-killers.” They complain about how abortion is unmoral, and how God wants us to choose life over death, but they seem to have no problem taking out their own frustrations on the doctor’s performing these procedures or their patients. The “pro-lifers” seem to think that abortion laws were just thrown together by uncaring “baby-killers” instead of Supreme Court justices. The fact is abortion used to be illegal. It wasn’t until the case of Roe Vs. Wade that the Supreme Court decided that a woman had the right to an abortion as long as certain guidelines were established and followed. The guidelines that were established following the Roe vs. Wade decisions are or still in effect today. The current Legislature says that the “state may not regulate abortion at all during the first trimester”( http://members.aol.com/abtrbng/conlaw.htm). That means that if a woman decides during the first three months of her pregnancy to abort the child she has the legal right to do so. The state’s interest during the first trimester is to the mother’s well-being. What is so special about the first 3 months? Well during the first three months the child is unable to survive outside of the mother’s womb, therefore dependent on the mother. During the second trimester...
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...Abortion has been a medical procedure for in the United States since as early as the 1880s. Historically it has been a medical procedure that was used when a woman’s life was in danger for medical reasons, rape, or incest. The Landmark case that set a new standard for Abortion in the United States came in 1973 in the state of Texas. “On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in Roe v. Wade, a challenge to a Texas statute that made it a crime to perform an abortion unless a woman’s life was at stake. The case had been filed by “Jane Roe,” an unmarried woman who wanted to safely and legally end her pregnancy. Siding with Roe, the court struck down the Texas law. In its ruling, the court recognized for the first time that the constitutional right to privacy “is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy” (Roe v. Wade, 1973). Roe has come to...
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...Abortion is the end of pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it can survive the growth of becoming a baby. Pregnancy ended before birth has become very argumentative between people who agree and disagree with decision of removing a fetus. When people started hearing about pregnancies ended before birth , people had their own opinions about it. I am pro-life . I think that if you put yourself into a position then you have to deal with the results.I also feel that if a women was raped which meaning she had not given a man the consent to make have sex with her then an abortion is acceptable.why should an innocent child have to give up there life because of two people's mistakes? if you are not ready for a responsibility don't risk it....
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...other choice? Death by abortion. Good morning fellow students and Miss Thomas Have you ever thought about killing anyone? Taking someone’s life? The life of someone so small they would not even have a say in such a decision. Someone so small they are considered unimportant. Abortion. Abortion means ending a pregnancy so that it does not result in the birth of a child but no matter how you say it, abortion is taking a life. According to Life Network Australia there is an estimated 80,000 - 90,000 surgical abortions are performed in Australia each year. That is 80,000 innocent lives being destroyed. 80,000 babies, losing the chance to live a life full of endless opportunities. Each and every child being aborted is priceless. The last child could have dramatically changed our world, they could have been the next Albert Einstein or Selena Gomez. A lot of people consider abortion as the only way to get rid of their “problem”. Is abortion acceptable in certain cases such as rape? Yes and no. Yes, because the woman had no say in this, and was violently forced to this action, and no since again you are taking away another human’s life. But only a small amount of all the women that choose abortion have been raped. Abortion is wrong for many reasons. The major one is the fact that every time an abortion is performed, another child, another human, who could change the future and make the world a better place, is killed. A lot of women think that Abortion is the only solution...
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...English 103 11/15/2012 Abortion How would you feel if someone decided that you could never get a chance at life? What if you were never born? Imagine a nervous young female at a Doctor’s office about to make a decision that will not only change her life forever, but change the life of the child growing inside of her. People say they don’t want others making a decision about their lives but they are more than willing to make a choice about someone else’s life. No matter what your views are on the subject of abortion, you have to admit that abortions are just a display of selfishness. A child is a living being regardless of whether or not it has yet to be conceived. Someone’s financial circumstances, level of maturity, or any other factor, doesn’t not change the fact that the “thing” inside a woman’s womb is a living person. Abortion should be banned because of the effects it has psychologically, medically and socially. Abortion has become the most common procedure in unwanted pregnancies. Over 1.3 million abortions are done yearly in the USA. According to The Kaiser Family Foundation, “Approximately one-fifth (19%) of the 6.4 million pregnancies that occur in the U.S. end in abortion. About 19% of women having abortions in the U.S. are teens; 33% are between the ages of 20 and 24; and 48% are ages 25 and older” (1). One can agree that murdering innocent people is wrong. However, legalizing abortion gives someone the right to end...
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...Pro-Life For many years abortion has been a very opinionated and thoroughly debated topic. For some people abortion is acceptable under certain circumstances such as the rape of an under aged girl. While other people strongly believe that no matter what stage the female is during her pregnancy they are consciously deciding to kill an unborn child. Some of the main reasons most people believe that abortion is the wrong decision is because they believe it is morally corrupt and it goes against their religious beliefs and it also could has severe and negative consequences that are not well-thought out beforehand. Many people believe that God is forgiving to those who go through with an abortion given certain circumstances. However, according to the Bible verse, Psalms 139:13-17, it states, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them”. This passage is from the Old Testament, which is used by both the Jewish and Christian faiths. God considers an unborn child to still be a child of God. This Bible verse shows that God already has...
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...Abortion: Why it's Wrong How would you feel if someone took away your ability to live? Imagine not having any say in whether or not you want to have a life. Well babies don't have a choice in their mother’s womb. If a woman decides to abort her baby, they can't do anything about their life being taken away from them. Their whole future is demolished. I believe abortion is wrong when committing it for a selfish reason. One reason why abortion is wrong is because there are many other safer solutions. In the article, Why Do More People Choose Abortion Over Adoption?, Kristi Burton Brown stated: “In the USA, there are approximately two million infertile couples waiting to adopt, many times regardless of the child’s medical problems such as Down Syndrome, Spina Bifida, HIV infection or terminally ill. Dr. Brad Imler, President of America’s Pregnancy Helpline, confirms the challenge of waiting couples by stating: Only 1% of the Helpline’s annual 40,000 clients inquires about adoption.” Putting him/her up for adoption will give them a better chance at a happier life rather than abortion. The solution for a baby should not be death. If it was for a selfish solution, you're sacrificing a life many other families would love to raise as their own. Another reason why I don't support abortion is because it can harm the mother as well. You are highly risking the mother's life and affecting her. Not only does it have an effect on the USA but, it affects other countries as well like...
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