Abortion - America's Answer to Hitler Essay

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Abortion - America's Answer to Hitler

Who should live, and who should die? Who has the right to make these decisions? People have been asking these questions for years but can't seem to decide if abortion should really be considered murder. Is it right to kill a blessing from God when the baby is healthy and so is the mother who carries it? And is it acceptable to abort if imminent death is the only thing in store for the baby after its birth? As difficult as these questions may seem, I believe that we must protect all human lives at any stage of development whether it be puberty or the first trimester. However, if terminal diseases are to cut short the lives of these little ones, and pain and suffering will be all
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A woman should put aside her own selfishness and be concerned more with the life that she holds in her. When a healthy woman, with a healthy baby growing inside of her, requests an abortion, she is probably seeking only her own happiness, but scripture says, "But if you do what is right and suffer for it, you patiently endure it; this finds favor with God" (1 Peter 2:20).

From the moment of conception, all human beings must have the same rights as those who are already born. All people, no matter how old, should have protection from death. A child at sixteen is not radically different from one at fifteen and a half (the children being nine months apart); we could say that they both deserve the same protection and right to life. If we refer to when these children were infants, wouldn't this still apply if one had just been born and the other just conceived? A change in location (from the womb to the wider world) does not change the person in this situation. "You do not lose your right not to be killed simply from walking from one room to another" (Baird & Rosenbaum 254).

Knowing that killing a healthy, growing child is unjust, can we say ending the life of a suffering child is just? There are terminal diseases such as Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome and Krabbe disease which are extremely painful for the infant and ultimately lead to death within six months. It is possible to know
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