Should Abortion Be Legal?

A baby’s heart begins to beat eighteen days after conception and most abortions usually take place between fourteen and twenty weeks into the pregnancy. Many people argue about when actual human life begins. At conception all of the genetic material for human life is there and nothing is added genetically after conception. The gender of the baby is also determined at the moment of conception (Moreland 34). French geneticist doctor Jerome LeJeune once said “to accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical contention, it is a plain experimental evidence”.The baby inside the mother is most defiantly alive at that point and should have the same right as all other living

Kristen is also accurate in her claim that fertilization is only the beginning of biological life, not the start of a conscious human life. This argument is interesting because many do not consider “biological life” when arguing whether or not a fetus is a human. However, a fetus can be biologically alive, but not consciously. There are so many stages during pregnancy, that people believe signifies the start of human life. The first sign of brain activity is another point in fetal development which people believe signal the start of human life. However, this minimal brain activity does not suggest that a fetus is conscious and self-aware, but merely a stage of development for the

When is a person alive? At the moment he or she starts growing and as such being true, a human is alive when the embryo starts developing. At five weeks’ gestation, the heart, brain, and other organs start to form, at six there is a heartbeat. Abortion is atrocious and barbaric and as such, it is imperative to make abortion illegal. Abortions are the action taken for an unintended pregnancy, in certain circumstances, despite the use of contraceptives. The reasoning for an abortion ranges from financial, physical, and emotional disquietude. The ages of the aborting women and the weeks of gestation are the antithesis.

The debate of whether life begins at conception or after birth is an age-old argument. In fact the reason for the debate is because it has not been proven that life absolutely begins at conception. “There has never been a scientific consensus as to

or does life begin once the child takes his or her first breath into this world? Most importantly,

A baby’s cells begin to grow very soon within pregnancy and its life begins even from the first day of conception (Pro-life Across America). For example, a baby boy named Rowan was 22 weeks old when his mother decided she did not want another child, so she aborted him. His heart was injected with a chemical called digoxin to kill him in what was perceived as the least painful way. However, some babies survive abortions, and Rowan was one such baby. The next day, the mother gave birth to an alive baby. The doctors had meant to kill Rowan, but nevertheless, he was born alive. However, the chemical was still in him, so he died anyway (Live Action News). If women were required to abort their babies after they had had a certain number, many could end up like

Abortion laws are an incredibly controversial topic, consistently making their way into the minds of many people, including some who would not usually be concerned with such an issue. A human life is the most precious and important thing there is. The thought of destroying the chance for an unborn human to live its life is one that is most often than not seen as very negative. What most people do not understand, however, is that there are a lot of misconceptions about abortion laws and the way that they are made. Because of a lack of scientific support in regards to when an unborn fetus becomes a person, lawmakers tend to make hasty decisions based purely on religious beliefs or emotional connections. They use their personal opinions and experience

The battle over abortion began with the case of Roe versus Wade on January 22, 1973. This conflict has quickly become one of the most predominant matters of society. By analyzing philosophical theories, biological facts, and psychological affects of abortion, one is able to conclude that abortion is murder. Through education and awareness programs, abortion can be acknowledged as immoral and unethical, thus preventing such crimes from being committed. This process of education starts with the recent history of the battle over abortion in our country.

Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being—a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings.

Every life is valuable, whether the life is growing inside of the womb or outside of the womb. There are many controversies regarding the subject of the rights of a fetus. Some believe that because the fetus it not yet in this world and has not yet taken its first breath, it has no rights. Others believe that right at conception, the fetus has human rights. I believe that God made all of us unique individuals right at fertilization and even as a tiny new form of life, we were all human beings which possess human rights. A fetus is its own being and should have its own human rights.

One of many questions being debated today is Abortion and the moral legal rights of the fetus. Usually debates about abortion focus on politics and the law. Some believe that the law shouldn’t legislate morality, but all good law is based upon moral values. Behind the debates are more fundamental ethical questions which aren’t always given the specific attention they deserve, like debating the legal status of the fetus. Is the point of conception considered life of the fetus and does that fetus have rights? Many consider the point of conception as the first stage in human development. From a political perspective the first and most fundamental human right is the right to live. If this is so then the fertilized egg would not only have the right to life, but should have the right to develop like any other person.

When discussing this question, the term ‘viability’ is often proposed when a question regarding the personhood arises. Viability is the stage the stage of pregnancy that recognises when the foetus can survive birth and exist independent of its mother. This used to be referred to as quickening, when the mother first felt the movements of the unborn foetus. However, this first movement feeling has no connection to viability today.

Life starts at the moment of conception. Existence of life comes all at once and gradually unfolds an unborn child’s potential world. As Professor Micheline Matthews-Roth of Harvard University Medical School quoted: “It is incorrect

Abortion and the many arguments, emotions that ensue, can be be traced back to court case of Roe v. Wade(1973) which ruled in favor of women’s choice to terminate a pregnancy of prior 14 weeks. According to Craddock, “Paul Linton, legal counsel for Americans United for Life, has written that of the seventeen Justices who have sat on the Supreme Court since Roe, ‘not one has ever stated that the unborn child is a constitutional person.’ Neither then-Justice Rehnquist nor Justice White, both dissenters in Roe, disputed the Court’s claim that unborn life is not encompassed in the term ‘person’ as used in the Fourteenth Amendment” (Craddock, Josh 543). While Roe v. Wade essentially ruled a fetus to be a unborn bundle of cells due to its inability to survive on its own, they failed to mention what their considerations of life are. If being able to survive on its own is the defining factor, explain the thousands of people in hospitals with no brain activity, who are only alive do to life support are considered alive. At six weeks a fetus develops a heart rate, leaving the mother still eight weeks to decide if she wants to abort her baby. A fetus develops neural tubes and spinal cord starting at four weeks and electrical impulses can be seen as early as fourteen weeks. There are people considered to be living humans beings with significantly less brain function than a 14 week old fetus, so why is it that they are considered to be alive while we are failing to recognize a fetus as a

“Before they see any brain activity, I don’t consider what is developing fully human life yet. So, a zygote is not human life. When the sperm and the egg fertilize is not human life. It is a form of life but it is not human life. Human life, to me involves brain activity and consciousness and so that doesn’t take place early on in pregnancy. And not until the brain stem develops a brain, do I consider