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Should a woman have the right to choose abortion?

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Regardless of what the law allows us to do and to get away with, abortion is still the killing of a potential human being. So in essence we have laws that simply support murder. So what is murder? Why do we support it? According to the American Heritage Dictionary, murder is "the malicious and unlawful killing of one human being by another. All jurisdictions, ancient and modern, consider it a most serious crime and impose a severe penalty for its commission."

Malicious is defined as "having the nature or resulting from malice, deliberately harmful, and spiteful."

Point in fact; having an abortion is malicious and murderous.

The most important of all matters is "Life". Some may dispute this claim and say that there are many other things more important in life. Some may say; family, children, love, health, honor, power, and wealth or any number of other things they consider most important, but before you can obtain any of the them; first you must be alive; first you must have life. Without it nothing could ever come to be. Life being the most important of all matters brings me to the abortion issue. Abortion takes away life, and abortion is a malicious act.

Whether one believes a fetus is a human being from the time of conception has no place here. That point, clear or unclear does not matter. One who chooses to have an abortion is willfully and maliciously killing a potential human being. No one can argue that if given a chance the fetus would eventually become a human being. Without disruption, the fetus attached to the womb will indeed feed, grow and prosper and eventually be born. This is life, as we all know it. Without that chance, the mother has made the decision that affects the life of that potential human. Some may argue that it is a woman's right to do as she sees fit with her own body, and I for one, do not dispute that in MOST cases. However because conception took place, it is now not only her body we are speaking of. The child that is forming in the womb will eventually be a human being just like the mother, and like her mother, father, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles etc.
Where are that child's rights?
If she killed any of the above-mentioned people, it would be considered murder and the penalty would be great. So why is it that she can become judge, jury and executioner and take it upon herself to kill a potential human being?

Our laws state that she has the choice, but because it is law, does that


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