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Arguments Against Abortion Research Paper

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However, conservatives argue that unborn babies are human beings and that abortion is taking their lives, which is murder. This person has unalienable rights the same as everyone else. Abortion is deliberately ignoring the sacredness of life.

In the occasion of rape and incest, proper medical care can assure that a woman will not become pregnant. Abortion punishes the innocent child; instead, it is the rapist that should be punished. Those who choose abortions are often young women without appropriate life experience to understand fully what they are doing, since brain development isn't complete until at least the age of 25. Many have lifelong regrets afterward and are more likely to suffer from psychological damage. Women who undergo an abortion have an increased risk for severe depression and have significantly higher anxiety levels within the next five years following the procedure. Out of 173,000 American women, those who aborted were 154% more likely to commit suicide than those who did not. A study published in the British Medical Journal reported that the average yearly suicide rate among women who had an abortion was 35 per 100,000 and a Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology study of men whose partners had abortions found that 52% of the men expressed regret, 45% felt sadness, and 26% experienced depression. …show more content…

The lack of women putting their children up for adoption caused the number of United States infant adoptions to drop from about 90,000 in 1971 to 18,000 in 2007. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2.6 million American women were trying to adopt children as of

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