...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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...However, not every parent is prepared when giving birth to a beautiful baby. Which is why, before the child is supposed to be born, the woman manages to get an abortion. An abortion means to terminate the life of a fetus and it most often happens within the first 28 weeks of the pregnancy. However, it may be much later as well. According to students from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, there are about 1.1 million abortions each year in the United States. It is said that many women who perform abortion do it simply because they are not ready for a child and/or they will not be able to provide for the child after it is born. It is agreed that if a child will not be able to have a decent lifestyle, why bring them into the world? However, there are many other options other than abortion. Abortion should not be legal at any time of the pregnancy, simply because it means means ending a life of an innocent child, it not only affects the fetus but it...
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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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...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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...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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...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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...Abortion Picture this, a happy, content, defenseless baby safe and warm inside his mother’s womb; little does he know, that at any moment he’ll be torn from this world and from his parents forever. Picture the same small baby being torn apart limb by limb as hear screams and wails because he’s in such terrible terrible pain, picture him dying a long, slow, painful death just because his mother and father didn’t want him or because they did not think they’d be capable of taking care of him. Now, picture the same baby, but before the abortion. If his mother would’ve went full term and carried him all nine months then gave birth to him she could've given him up for adoption. Then he’d have a better chance of living a happy, healthy life with...
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...later she discovers that she is pregnant. What should she do? She has two options: either have the child or abort the child. To an advocate or pro-choice, this would be considered an aggravating circumstance and a reasonable excuse to abort the child since it was not conceived out of love or by the woman’s choice. To an advocate of pro-life, although this is an unfortunate occurrence, aborting this child would be morally wrong and considered murder. Abortion is touchy subject that has essentially divided the nation. On one side people believe that is a woman’s choice regardless of the circumstances. On the other side, there are people who believe that the unborn child is a human being at conception and has the right to a life. Abortion is a very controversial public issue, which highlight two opposing views in regards to abortion and support both views with research. We must first get the full meaning of the word “abortion” before we can talk about it. According to the book “Introduction to Abortion,” it is any procedure that removes a fetus from a woman’s womb” (Roleff). Abortion end’s a pregnancy and terminates a fetus’s life. For most people this very harsh thing to do, but to the women who were sexually assaulted, they feel it is the best decision for them. Who is right? The debate over abortion has divided people in two groups: pro-life and pro-choice. Pro-life group are against abortions and believe that life begins at conception. They also believe the unborn...
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...Topic: Abortion Claim: Abortion is not the best solution. Thesis Statement: Abortion is not the best solution because abortion is murder, it is an unsafe procedure which endangers the lives of women and it disallows for safer options such as adoption. Points It contributes to mass murder It endangers the lives of women It disallows for options such as adoption Introduction The dictionary defines Abortion as: The termination of pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or of a fetus that is incapable of survival. This simply means, inducing birth to kill the fetus, or baby before it is carried to full term. However, I would define abortion as morally and spiritually wrong. How would you feel if you were denied the right to live? Imagine being held against your will, gagged, and your hands bounded as you are placed in front of a firing squad about to be killed for absolutely no reason. Your right to live depends solely on someone else’s decision, hoping and praying that their decision is one that will be one of moral and ethical consciousness and would allow you your right. This is exactly what abortion entails, denying you your right to live. There are many women who might have gotten pregnant and thought that they were not ready to have a child. For most of them, they turn to abortion and see it as their only way out. I am certain many of these women have not fully understood the consequences behind abortion or does not realise that there are many other alternatives rather...
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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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...2012 English Language and Composition The Issue of Abortion - A Modest Proposal The issue of abortion has become an increasingly controversial topic over the past few decades, especially in the United States. Before the 1970s, the word “fetology” had not even come into existence. As knowledge of this subject expanded, the development of the Ultrasound led to many discoveries about the human fetus. Unfortunately, another fruit of the Ultrasound’s discovery was that of abortion. Statistics show that “39% of deaths in the United States are due to abortion”, making it the number one reason of deaths in the country ("ABORTION: The Number One Cause Of American Deaths.") Additionally, the total average of worldwide cases of abortion adds up to “115,000”. Yet the rate of abortions in America is about “3,700 per day”, which puts the percentage of abortions in the U.S. at only 3% ("Abortion Statistics." Abortion Statistics) This is certainly not only a crime in America, but a worldwide epidemic. Countless precious and unborn lives have been lost in this relentless act of inhumanity, and it seems that their “silent scream” has yet to be heard ("Silent Scream.") Of course there have been organizations, websites, and campaigns to raise awareness about this robbery of innocent life. Pro-life institutions such as the American Life League advocate the protection of unborn lives through adoption and donations for the cause of anti-abortion. Various websites, abort73.com for example, promote...
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...Abortion and Health Care In the last few decades, abortion has become a much-discussed subject. It has been a central point in many political affairs. It is a topic that almost always comes up when selecting justices for the Supreme Court, and candidates for state and local offices as well as for the U.S. Presidency. What exactly is abortion? Depending on who you ask, you will always get a different answer. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines abortion as “the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus during the first twelve weeks of gestation”(“Merriam-Webster”).The moral question has always been whether or not it should be a woman's decision to get an abortion. Pro-life believers feel that from the moment of conception, the embryo is alive and this life imposes a moral obligation to preserve it. After only eighteen days, the heart is formed, and after twenty the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system begin to develop. The heart starts beating four days later (Adoption for America). They believe that although abortion is regarded as a women’s right, it should be banned with no exceptions because it is considered murder. Pro-Choice, though it does take the side of legalizing abortion, does not mean pro-abortion. Pro-choice is the right to choose whether to reproduce, adopt, or abort. Pro-Choice is the best option because it gives women the right to access their full reproductive health options with...
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...Abortion - The ending of a pregnancy before birth. This is the book definition of a very substantial topic that has been gaining a lot of attention recently. People in the U.S.A. have been arguing whether or not abortion should be legal. They are separated into two different groups; pro-life and pro-choice. The pro-life side believes that personhood begins at conception, therefore considering abortions “the immoral killing of an innocent human being”. The pro-choice side believes that having an abortion is a right that should not be limited by governmental or religious authority. The pro-choice side also believes that personhood is separate from human life, as the fetus has not yet been able to experience life. Abortion is justified because it is the woman's own body and she could do what she likes, the woman could be living in poverty, and adoption just isn’t a viable alternative to abortion....
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...Abortion: A Never Ending Controversy Approximately 205 million abortions occur each year worldwide. Over a third are unintended and about a fifth end in abortion. What is abortion? Abortion is the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus prior to viability. In other words, it is when a mother decides she doesn’t want to go through with her pregnancy. Abortion in today’s society has become very political. You are either pro-choice, pro-life, and there doesn’t seem to be a happy medium. As we look at abortion and research its history, should it remain legal in the United States, or should it be outlawed, we must consider both points of views. November 14, 1979, with the temperature outside at fifteen degrees, a two pound baby girl was found in a field wrapped up in a wet, dirty, old shirt. The umbilical cord was still attached, and the baby had been aborted twelve weeks prematurely. With little chance of survival, the baby was taken to a medical center. The little girl survived surgery and other efforts to save her. The baby was later adopted by Susan Morrison, one of the nurses who attended to her. The baby was named Christelle, and now she and her mother talk to thousands of people about abortion and the pro-life movement. There are 1,600,000 other abortion stories every year in the United States. “Abortion is the termination of pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by death of the embryo or fetus. Because...
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...Abortion versus Adoption Murder, gruesome death. Blameless, young infant. These terms do not belong together, but sadly, every twenty-two seconds, a baby dies from abortion (Just). The Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 legalized that a woman, along with her doctor, could choose abortion in earlier months of pregnancy without restriction, and with limitations in later months. Unexpected pregnancies commonly end in a termination of life. Scared and confused, new mothers assume that an abortion is the only option. Women, who are considering abortion for personal reasons, should instead choose adoption. Adoption is the second choice, as well as the better choice. Above all, abortion is morally wrong. Throughout weeks one to four of the pregnancy alone, the foundation of the nervous system forms as well as the heart and circulatory system. After only a month of pregnancy, a baby has the basis for thought, senses, and feeling. Though still in the beginning stages of life, this very life support system is what will carry the baby throughout his life (Fetal). Because life begins at conception, aborting a child is equal to murder. Aborted children have done no wrong, so there is no reasonable explanation to punish these children with death. In Exodus20:13, God commands all people not to murder (Holy Bible, Exodus 20.13). Just as the Israelites of the Old Testament followed this command, the Gentiles of this generation must also abide by this law. This commandment, along with others, has not...
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