Abortion And Abortion

The topic of abortion is heavily debated. One of the major controversies surrounding abortion is whether or not the embryo is a human life and able to receive the same rights as any other human. Is the embryo mentally developed enough to be considered as a human life? It is medically proven that after conception, the human brain takes many months to develop, so the “personhood” of a fetus cannot begin until about the seventh month.

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy before the time of extra-uterine viability. An abortion terminates the life of the embryo, (the fertilized egg before three months of growth) or the fetus after three months” (Pederson & Watson, 2003).

In ,“pro life: Abortion Controversy”, waltman states, “According to the Endowment for Human Development, between three and four weeks after conception, an unborn-child's heart begins to beat, and roughly nine weeks after conception a baby will respond to sound, yawn, and suck their thumbs” (Waltman). By week ten , all the major body organs have formed. During the last week of the first trimester (week twelve), blood begins to form in the bone marrow of the fetus, the kidneys begin to create urine and the fetus can fall asleep and wake up. Also by week twenty, the fetus is able to feel and recoil from pain. Taking that into consideration, if a woman was to have an abortion at or after twenty weeks of a pregnancy, the baby would be able to feel the pain of its limbs being tugged on and ripped off. In biology the definition of life is, the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death. Knowing the Biology definition of life, the fetus is growing, has functional activity, including sucking its thumb, rolling over, and recoiling/ feeling pain, therefore the fetus could easily be born prematurely (early) and

Worldwide, breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for women; is the leading cause of cancer death for women between the ages of twenty and 59; one in ten of all new cancers are female breast cancers; and the highest incidence of breast cancer in the world is in North America (Lanfranchi et al. 110). In light of these upsetting statistics, if studies had found a potential risk factor that may substantially increase a women’s risk of developing breast cancer, then women should be informed about this risk factor and the topic should be researched more thoroughly. This potential risk factor is not simply a hypothetical scenario, however; this has actually happened. The potential link some researchers believe to have found is between having an induced abortion and an increased risk of developing breast cancer. The first epidemiological study that claimed to find a positive link between abortion and increased risk of breast cancer dates back to the late 1950s. Although when the theory was first proposed is irrelevant to whether the abortion-breast cancer link (ABC link) is a reality or merely conjecture, some have not heard of the link regardless of the fact that the hypothesis has been debated for 50+ years. A personal survey conducted on November 28th, 2017 revealed that out of 100 respondents, only 60 had heard of the abortion-breast cancer link (Bertsch).

How would you feel if u weren 't given a chance of life and someone decided to just give you up and kill you? Approximately 125,000 abortions occur per day. 1.1 million U.S. abortions each year. Nearly 1 in 4 (22%) of pregnancies end in abortion. 50% of women now seeking abortion have had at least one previous abortion. The U.S. abortion rate is among the highest of developed countries. 51% of abortions are performed on women less than 25 years of age. Approximately 1/3 of American women have had an abortion by age 45. Abortion disproportionately affects black and Hispanic women. (Alan Guttmacher Institute). When it comes to abortion it is one of the most important issues in the world. Some people believe that abortion is sinful because

Furthermore, some believe that until the human embryo can sustain life independently it is not considered “alive”. However, the general definition of death is considered to be the cessation of the heart or the end of electrical activity in the brain. With this in mind, human development demonstrates that just twenty-two days after conception the heart begins to circulate and electrical activity can be detected as early as six to eight gestation weeks. Additionally, in today’s modern era parents are able to see the human development of their child before their eyes, with not only pictures but also live video. They get to see the child move, grasp its hands, kick its legs, and even smile as early as twenty weeks gestation. All of this serves to demonstrate that life begins at conception therefore defining abortion as murder of an unborn child. The claim that no one knows when life begins is a cheap justification that completely ignores the vast available knowledge of science and human development and instead chooses to defend individual beliefs based on politics, philosophy, or self gain.3

“When Does Human Life Begin?” written by Arthur Caplan in 2014, takes an inside look at the question that is centered at the root of the abortion argument. Caplan addresses the scientific foundation of when human life actually begins, why the facts are not publicized, why some embryos cannot become human beings and why scientists are hesitate to correct their mistakes. The article is well written and completes the task of answering the initial question: When does Life begin?

Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. Abortion is one of the many options on what to do if you are pregnant. The abortion debate has gone on for several decades and has been a repeating debate. Although some may disagree, Abortion should be illegal because it causes physiological damage, kills innocent babies, and breaks God's law.

A long on-going subject that has been greatly debated in our society is abortion. Many people argue that because the baby in the mother’s womb is not alive, aborting him or her is not considered a murder. However, others say that as the baby’s heart and brain are the first things to develop, the baby is technically alive and killing it would be a murder. As soon as the baby has a heartbeat, it has life. Abortion has many characteristics of a murder, including the killing of one human being by another, it’s unethical, and it is done without the consent of the person.

If a woman just finds out that she is pregnant, the group of cells in her womb is not a child, or anything for that matter, that can even have the potential to think on its own and be its own person according to pro-choice advocates. There was a case that was written about in Randy Alcorn’s book, Pro- Life Answers to Pro- Choice Arguments Expanded and Updated, (page 33) where a doctor was about to perform the abortion and Randy writes, “As the surgeon was closing the womb, the miracle happened. Baby Samuel pushed his hand out of the womb and grabbed the surgeon’s finger. Photographer Michael Clancy caught this astonishing act on film. And in that instant, Clancy went from being pro choice to being pro life. As he put it, ‘I was totally in shock for two hours after the surgery… I know abortion is wrong now- it’s absolutely wrong.’” If a baby is taken out of its mother before the abortion is performed, and it already knows to grab and hold onto a finger then it is not just some cells. All babies do that in order to show and be shown affection. If the baby is “not alive” then why and how did it know to do that already when it has not been born

Abortion is defined in several ways all of which stop a pregnancy. There are different ways of abortion, which are spontaneous abortion, surgical abortion, and medical abortion. Abortion has been arguable topic for decades. One can neither believe abortion to be good nor bad. The idea of individuality and human life is not quite the same. Idea of human life has come from conception; simultaneously on the other hand, fertilizer eggs used for in vitro fertilization are also human lives but eggs unable to implant are routinely thrown away. Would you like to call it a murder and if not, then how is abortion a murder? Arizona is known as a state that is very much against abortion. In 2012; Arizona was named Americans United for Life’s “Pro-life All-Star.” Since 1995, center for Arizona policy has supported 30 bills that have been signed into law that promote pro-life.

How could one deny the existents of life when, once the sperm penetrates the egg a new cell is form called “zygote”. Which has its own unique genetic composition(DNA), it is unlike its own mothers therefore making it undeniably alive. This fact also disproves the idea that an abortion is between a woman and her own body. (3) Next we can physically see a heartbeat with ultra sounds after 22 days after conception. (4) This forms an understanding of two separate human-beings, one is just dependent on the other for survival. Foremost, they preform fetal surgeries on pregnant women. Removing tumors, or bypass surgery, etc. (5)

Ecclesiastes 1:9 in the Bible states, "What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun." (The Woman's Study Bible NIV, 2012). This is how the Bible relates to the recent advances in science and technology and the Bible outlines the ethical and unethical principles of life. The recent advances in science and technology are unethical for several reasons. Some recent unethical technologies include the use of fetal tissue for scientific studies, altering the genetics of humans, resurrecting extinct species, creating chimeras, and cloning.

Scientific theories are helpful to understand how the abortion-breast cancer could be true, but how is one to know whether what has been hypothesized has actually happened? How can one know whether ABC link is highly probable, rather than merely possible? To see the effects of abortion on breast cancer, one must move out of the realm of hypotheses and theories and into the realm of concrete data. Such is the case with the information presented in the book published by The de Veber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research; Complications: Abortion's Impact on Women. In it, the authors of the book conclusively state, “There are now 56 studies that show a positive association between abortion and breast cancer, of which 35 are statistically significant” (Lanfranchi et al. 121). Studying China in particular is a good illustration of the abortion-breast cancer link. After the one-child policy was enforced, there was a significant increase in abortions, and a corresponding substantial increase in breast cancer rates (Lanfranchi et al. 123). In 2012, a Chinese study found a dose-response association between abortion and breast cancer, with an increased 33 percent risk for one abortion, 76 percent increase for two abortions, and 165 percent increased risk for three or more abortions (Lanfranchi et al. 121). In addition, epidemiological studies concerning the ABC link meet the Bradford-Hill criteria for “classifying abortion as a causal risk for breast cancer” (Lanfranchi et al.

There has been plenty of controversy over whether or not abortion is right or wrong. The debate that we face today surrounds legal, moral and religious views. In some cases abortion is completely necessary like if a women is raped, has a medical condition or does not feel ready to be a mother. It can be an uncomfortable topic for most people but it should be discussed so people can be more aware of the facts of the subject. Government are still passing laws about abortion trying to make it harder for women to be able to have one. The people that are passing these laws are mostly Christians that do not think it is morally right for a women to have an abortion. It is crucial that a women should be able to make this choice for herself. Ultimately they should be able to have the free will too decide.