Persuasive Essay On Abortion

Many individuals fail to understand the sheer magnitude of bloodshed, tribulation, and despair legalized abortion has initiated into the human experience – both in the United States and worldwide. Far more human lives have been violently ended by this immoral decision than any other war or genocide in history. It is one of the most controversial issues in today’s society. Abortion is the intentional decision to murder a human fetus by chemical, medical or surgical procedures. Those who support the rights of abortion argue that women should be able to decide what can be done to their bodies, yet the unborn baby inside a woman is a living being, and terminating that pregnancy is the equivalent of murder. These innocent children should not be held responsible for your mistakes. Don’t terminate pregnancy now, because you may not have children in the future at all.

Abortion has been one of the biggest controversies of all time. Many people believe it is 100% wrong and even consider it to be murder. The definition of abortion is; “The termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to being capable of normal growth.” These pro-life believers do not support the idea of abortion and believe it should be illegal. Many of these supporters do not know that if abortion were illegal they would still be performed, unfortunately by an uneducated staff. Over 70 thousand maternal deaths occur every year because of unsafe abortions. These women die, so the idea of supporting pro-life is contradictory, this is why the nation should be pro-choice.

Abortion in America is a hot topic in today’s society. With 1.21 million abortions in 2013 (Pro Life Action League), many people are starting to question if abortion should be outlawed. In 1973, the supreme court issued that banning abortion took away a woman’s right to life, liberty, and property (Pro Life Action League). This ban overlooks the fact of taking away another human’s right to life, liberty, and property; that human, is the fetus growing inside of the mother who aborts it. Abortion should be outlawed in America because it kills innocent human beings, frees people from taking responsibility for their own actions, and because there are other options to not having to raise a child.

You’ve heard the stories of the coat hanger and the back alley, those bloody days before Roe v. Wade. Sen. Patrick J. Leahy told one recently at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Neil M. Gorsuch. As a Vermont prosecutor in 1968, three years before the court struck down state abortion bans, cops woke Leahy up in the middle of the night, because “a young co-ed nearly died from bleeding from a botched abortion.” The senator’s drift was clear: If confirmed, Gorsuch could cast a vote, or several, to bring back those horrors (if not the archaic phrase “co-ed”).

Abortion is a controversial topic that has snaked its way through our nation. Some people claim that a “woman's decision about her own body is paramount”, while others believe that a “baby's life trumps all.” Pro-abortion and anti-abortion individuals have never achieved solidarity. People who support anti-abortion disregard a woman’s reason for having one and how having a child may affect their life. Society is focused on a life that has not seen the world. They don’t realize that a woman may not be financially stable, mentally stable, or healthy enough to bear a child. All three articles capture the idea that women should have the right to an abortion.

For centuries, philosophers, scientists, and theologians have argued the subject, and currently are still not in agreement in regards to which phase of fetal development should be associated with the right to life. Most, if not all, are in agreement that adult humans possess the right to life. Those who are pro-choice believe that the right to life is not secured by an egg fertilized through conception. Evidently, the right to life is obtained somewhere between conception and adulthood. The obvious question though, is when is this right acquired; when does a fetus become a person?

The vast majority of people in the United States support the rights of woman and men alike. This right makes them free to pursue dreams of happiness and freedom, to do as they choose as long as it does not infringe on the rights of other “humans.” That is honestly the root of the issue with abortion in this country; we firmly believe in the rights of humans, but we treat a fetus as if it was none human. Science has proven through deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that an unborn baby is indeed human, so if it is human then the only remaining question would be, “When is the fetus alive?” To find the answer, one must first start with the end in mind. This proposal will do just that, start at the end to explain the beginning and through a small amount of compromise, the abortion controversy will be solved with a common sense and responsible approach.

Abortion a very touchy subject that can spark debate, whether for or against. But what is abortions and why does it cause so much controversy? “An abortion is a medical or surgical procedure that deliberately ends a pregnancy before an embryo or fetus is born” (“Abortion”1)

There are several controversial debates regarding the medical procedure of abortion. Abortion is known to be the process of removing an undeveloped fetus from the mother's womb; ending the pregnancy. During early pregnancy, the yet to be mother has to make a choice: if to carry the unborn child to birth or to abort it before it is able to future develop. This procedure has created lots of bias and opinions: two opposing faction, on one side, individuals are all "for" the actions of abortions, supporting the actions of abortion and believe that women should be able to decide if they want to abort or not. In the other hand, there are many individuals who are all against the idea of abortion and want the action of aborting to be illegal. No nation committed to individual liberty should consider the wholesale murder of helpless babies with little to no concern for the well-being of the babies. Women are not forced to bear children, they choose to bear children by the act of having unprotected sexual intercourse. The practices of ending a pregnancy should be banned all around the world.

Abortion is one of the many topics that everyone has an opinion on. An abortion is “the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus” (Merriam-webster). Abortion has always been and most likely always be a controversial topic that not everyone will agree on. Throughout the argument, two groups have emerged; pro-choice and pro-life. Pro-choice supporters believe that women should be able to do what they want with their body no matter the circumstance. While pro-life supporters claim that life begins at conception, so an abortion at any stage of the pregnancy is considered murder. There are two types of abortions, in-clinic abortions and the abortion pill. There are a few types of in-clinic abortions such as; vacuum aspiration which happens during your first trimester, dilation and evacuation (D&E) which is during your second trimester, and dilation and extraction (D&X) if you are further along than that. However, dilation and extraction is now illegal in the United States as by the third trimester, the fetus is nearly fully developed, including its sense of pain, so this procedure is considered cruel and unusual. Abortions have been around for thousands of years, however in the 1800s abortions were illegal in the US due to the dangerous procedures and surgeries. It wasn’t until 1973 that the Supreme court granted women the right to an abortion, and abortions became legal in the United States. Ever since abortion got legalized, many people have argued whether it should be legal or not, people are either pro-life or pro-choice. Personally I am pro-choice because I believe that it is the women's right to decide what she wants to do with her body.

In her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Mother Teresa states: “The greatest destroyer of peace in the world today is the cry of the innocent unborn child… To me, the nations that have legalized abortion, they are the poorest nations” (Mother Teresa - Acceptance Speech). Abortion is one of the most controversial social justice issues facing the world today. A woman facing an unplanned pregnancy chooses to end the life of her preborn child by means of abortive pills or surgery. Several nations have legalized this depriving an unborn child of his or her right to life. These nations justify their decision by saying that a woman deserves to choose what she does with her body. Since it can cause serious health concerns for the mother, and pro-life alternatives exist, abortion should be illegal so as to not deprive anyone of their right to life.

Abortion is a controversial and sensitive problem occurring in today’s society. Multiple people argue constantly whether or not abortion should be allowed. In the United States it is legal to abort a baby up until the day of birth. Some people believe abortion is murder, while others believe it is a free choice of each person. Abortion refers to the termination of a pregnancy by removing or expelling the fetus or embryo from the uterus before it is ready for birth. The United States Supreme Court ratified the legalization of abortion in an effort to make the procedure safer; this was done through the Roe vs. Wade decision of 1973. Throughout many years of American history, abortion has been a very controversial subject. Abortion should be illegal because a fetus is a human being, which means it is murder, and therefore, abortion is a crime. The debate over the legal and ethical viability of abortion has been complicated in defining whether a developing embryo can be equal with human life.

Do women have the right to choose what she does with her body? When it comes to pregnancy, some women feel as if they shouldn’t keep their baby. Many women face criticism when making the decision to abort their baby because some people don’t support women getting abortions. Although some people believe getting abortions are morally wrong, make a bad situation worse, and have many health risks, for some, getting an abortion is necessary because of lack of money, the age of the mother, how the child was conceived and the health of the mother.

Abortion is always argued with different cases and play a main role in medical ethics (blackwell.,p291).It is evidently reasonable for some to argue that in moral situation, abortion is a murder and it should be illegal, while others may claim that abortion is woman’s right when concerning on autonomy ( The abortion debate in Australia). Opponents of making abortion legal claim that abortion is a kind of murder on extend of moral situation. It is always regarded as a sin to kill a person who is no aggressor in most moral communities (new ethics 1). Fetus is a biologically human as it is not just a part of the mothers, such as a lung or a kidney. On the contrary, it is obvious that fetus is human due to he or she has genetic code of human and human parents as well (abortion myth p5). Moreover, it has potentiality to be a person with primary moral worth (text book p210-211). As Gillion (new ethics) pointed out, every person has his right to life, especially he is not an aggressor. This point is also been pointed by (Rebecca and john,Blackwell p204), “embryos has a right to life” .The fetus is innocent and

“It’s an awe- inspiring force, the iron determination of a woman who refuses to bear a child she knows