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Moral and Ethical Dilemmas of Abortion Essay

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In 1997, there were 1,184,758 legal abortions. Imagine; those babies could have been lawyers, doctors, presidents… These babies could have found the cure to cancer. Some may say that abortion is as American as apple pie, but it’s not. Abortion is an abomination. It is destroying our culture by making society devalue the sanctity of life. It’s murder and it may have lasting physical and emotional side effects on the women that receive the abortion. Abortion, in all stages of pregnancy, needs to become an illegal procedure.
Abortion may have a large part to play in society’s decline in moral values, but it is definitely at fault for society’s deterioration of respect for life. The main reason an unborn baby is called a fetus is to dehumanize …show more content…

After an abortion, most women will develop PAS. PAS stands for Post Abortion (stress) Syndrome. This is a form of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. PAS deals with the grief, pain, and regret felt after an abortion. And though the mental effects may be unbearable, there are also severe physical effects. Immediately after abortion, possible side effects include intense pain, excessive bleeding, infection, shock, coma, damage to organs, and death. Some effects that may happen with time are infertility, miscarriages, premature births, tubal pregnancies, and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. Women that have had an abortion are fifty-eight times more like to die during childbirth. Sadly, some women end up dying and other’s emotional scars will never fade.
Perhaps the most important reason abortion should be illegal is because it is murder. Prochoice advocates say that a fetus is nothing more than a clump of tissue. However, anyone who studies or works in the medical field knows that this is anything but true. Before even twenty days after conception, a baby has a heartbeat. This baby has DNA distinctly different from its mother. The baby that has been conceived will never, ever be repeated again in nature. At eight weeks old, all of the baby’s organs begin to function. At nine weeks, the baby has its own unique set of fingerprints. By the ten week mark, the unborn baby can feel pain, and two weeks later the baby can smile. Let’s step away from these facts for just a

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