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Add to FavoritesIt is amazing that this topic is still a major issue in today's society. Though women have gained the right to choose, we constantly nitpick and tear them apart for doing so. The decision to have an abortion outweighs any factor on whether women should be allowed to have them or not. Though pro-life activists might think that choosing to terminate a pregnancy is an easy decision, they are sadly mistaken. Not only do you have to make the decision to terminate the pregnancy, in addition you have to live with that decision for the rest of your life.
Let's put situational ethics aside for a moment and focus on the act of having an abortion. An abortion is a medical procedure. This alone should tell you that it is not the government's right to chose, or even your neighbors. I would not consult congress or my next door neighbor if I wanted to have a hysterectomy, which is also a medical procedure. So why are so many people fighting to make the decision for others?
Furthermore to include situational ethics into the argument, how can we honestly deny a woman who is pregnant as a result of victimization? You might say that she has the right to put the child up for adoption. While that is a commendable act, we are paying for too many children that are in foster care and orphanages as it is. Instead of overpopulating the world with children who were deemed unwanted at birth, why can't the pregnancy be terminated? It is a slim chance for a child of a certain age to be adopted. Therefore, they are stuck in foster care or state care until they become eighteen. These children are more susceptible to criminal activity and drug usage because of the care they received from our government with our tax dollars. These children are the ones that we complain about when we are talking about juvenile delinquency. Imagine the ripple effect that we stop by allowing women to choose.
In addition, why should a woman with a medical condition be forced to carry to term and risk her life? Is it moral to allow a woman to sacrifice her own life for a fetus, which is not technically a child? It is absolutely absurd to allow a woman to make the decision between her life and that of a child the size of a pen point.
In conclusion, it is easy to state your beliefs on abortion if you have never been in the situation where one might be warranted. In some instances such as victimization (rape), medical problems, and sometimes naivety and youth, abortion can be an admirable choice. Why should we condemn two or three lives, when they could all be spared from a life of unreachable dreams and unnecessary hardships?
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If the fetus were already born, cutting up the baby and vacuuming it into oblivion would be illegal. It would be first degree murder, intent to cause bodily harm, conspiracy and cover up of the evidence. The legal artifice that the baby is still inside its mother does not change the brutal facts of what abortion involves.
To me it is incredibly ironic that the law prohibits suicide, which harms directly nobody else, but permits the brutal termination of a pregnancy for any reason or no reason at all. Somehow, liberal politically correct persons who are concerned for the fate of neglected animals, abused children and disadvantaged illegal aliens defend the wrong of allowing any woman to practice infanticide of the unborn infant! Who is more helpless than a baby? Yet, because a baby is still in the womb, it is not alive?
There is no doubt that raising children is tough work, but how that justifies terminating the unwanted pregnancy is beyond my ability to comprehend. Clearly, this is case of over intellectualizing the crime. The mother has a right to legal representation if she is condemned to death, so what about the unborn baby? What crime did the fetus commit? None! Yet it has no rights, but only if it is its mother who wants to kill it? If it is another person who kills the pregnant mother, only then the fetus has legal rights?
I predict that there will be a time that people will look back at this period and shake their heads in disbelief. I am not a lawyer, but I am incredulous that the court system has not been flooded for stays of executions on behalf of the rights of unborn babies. Abortion is an abomination and there must be legal arguments to prove that. In my mind, the issues are very basic.
Abortion ends the life of the fetus that would otherwise expect a normal and healthy birth. What gives the right of the executioner to the mother before birth, but not after? If a mother decided after birth that a baby was not right for her, if it was surgically reintroduced to the womb, would an abortion then still be legal?
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