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Definition Essay On Abortion

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The dictionary definition of life is, ¨The condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity of growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.¨ Life is when something has ¨growth.¨ When a woman conceives making her pregnant there is automatically growth. Because human life begins at the moment of conception, getting an abortion is murder.

In Kentucky abortion is only legal until around 20 weeks of pregnancy. After 20 weeks abortion is only allowed if the mother is in danger. Guttmacher Institute states ¨An abortion may be performed at 20 or more weeks post fertilization only if the womanś life is endangered or if her physical health is several compromised.” Since human life begins at conception, why would the law give the option to murder up until 20 weeks of pregnancy? The answer is, some people …show more content…

The dictionary definition explains, birth means ¨The emergence of a baby or other young from the body of itś mother.¨ The explanation is simple because if a person believes life begins at birth the only reason would be, when a person is born they can now breath, eat, sleep, and develop, and reasonable because a baby does breath, eat, sleep and develop after birth. Also wrong because not only does the baby breath, eat, sleep, and develop after birth he/she also does before birth. Development happens throughout a pregnancy. After fertilization, then implantation(conception), the egg turns to an embryo, then a fetus, then a baby. Some of the development which happen between the transformations are, body parts and systems form and start to function, the senses of smell, taste, and sight start to work, the baby inhales and exhales amniotic fluid helping him/her learn to breath, and he/she starts to sleep. Life does begin when development, breathing, sleeping, and eating begins, therefore life begins at

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