Unborn Fetus

The topic of abortion is heavily debated. One of the major controversies surrounding abortion is whether or not the embryo is a human life and able to receive the same rights as any other human. Is the embryo mentally developed enough to be considered as a human life? It is medically proven that after conception, the human brain takes many months to develop, so the “personhood” of a fetus cannot begin until about the seventh month.

According to the Oxford dictionary, "abortion is the expulsion of a fetus from the uterus by natural causes before it is able to survive independently." Abortion has perhaps been a highly politicized over the past several decades. The major political parties in the United States have adopted distinct positions on this issue. When the death a fetus occurs naturally, it is called a miscarriage. When the loss of a fetus is caused intentionally, it is regarded as a significant moral and societal issue that needs to be dealt with. An article on washingtonpost.com stated that, "studies show that there is an imbalance between the number of firearms-related deaths 30,000 a year and abortions performed each year in the United States more than 750,000 a year." This shows that more death occur from abortions that firearms. To better picture what an abortion is, the mental image of a baby covered in blood placed in a basin and chopped into about fifty pieces. This will help understand how cruel and wicked abortion is. I intend to argue that abortion is morally, logically, and religiously wrong. Unless murder becomes legal, abortion should remain illegal.

Exodus 20:13, Matthew 5:21, Matthew 19:18, Mark 10:19, Luke 18:20, Romans 13:9, James 2:11, Exodus 21:12, Leviticus 24:17 and Deuteronomy 5:17 all say that we should not murder. I believe that even if a woman or a family cannot take care of the baby it is still not our choice to take away his life, because God has given it to him. The foster system can take care of the child, and yes, it is true, that sometimes children end up not in the best situation, but I believe that God has a plan for them through that, much greater that being killed by your own mother who is convinced that you are not a person yet. Planned Parenthood is also known to support sex-selective abortions. The staff would gladly support women if they only want to kill a baby if it is a girl, so they advise to wait until the baby has developed enough to have a clear sex determination. If that is not murder I am not sure how else to describe it.

Noonan, CC 152). Fetuses aren’t tangible individuals, crawling around, acting like normal babies. Instead they’re developing, waiting until one day they are grown enough to survive without the protection of a mother’s womb. Noonan claims that advocates of abortion don’t make enough of an effort to recognize the personhood

Gianna Jessen who is now thirty-six, survived an abortion. At seventeen years old, her mother attempted to abort her using the saline procedure. Eventually, Gianna forced a birth after being in the solution for eighteen hours. She was put up for adoption after she was born and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at an early age due to the saline burning. Around the world, abortion takes place on the daily basis and the government considers this form of murder legal. This brutal act of legal murder is at an all-time high. Nearly 125,000 babies around the world are being killed each day (Real Time World Statistics, “Abortions in the World”). Most of the babies aren’t fortunate enough to survive like Gianna. Many people minimize the inhumanity of abortion because they believe the baby isn't a human being yet or the mother puts her life before the child without seeking another option. While it is believed that abortion can prevent many unwanted pregnancies, however, it can leave extreme physical and emotional trauma on the mother and sometimes father. Some research claims that during the first few weeks of a pregnancy the embryo isn’t considered a human being, but in fact, an unborn baby does have a life. Dr. Robert George claimed that embryos are distinguished from other cells by their autonomous intrinsic functioning. Consequently, human embryos are living individuals at the earliest stage of development. (George, “Why is Abortion Wrong?”) Therefore, they are considered human

Miriam Webster Medical Dictionary defines a viable fetus is capable of living outside the human uterus, weighing 500 grams or more, and the pregnancy is of 20 weeks in gestation. Not all pregnancies go as planned as more infants are born before full term, and sometimes between 22-24 weeks of gestation. These infants are at the verge of viability and sometimes resuscitation can lead to morbidity or mortality.

A long on-going subject that has been greatly debated in our society is abortion. Many people argue that because the baby in the mother’s womb is not alive, aborting him or her is not considered a murder. However, others say that as the baby’s heart and brain are the first things to develop, the baby is technically alive and killing it would be a murder. As soon as the baby has a heartbeat, it has life. Abortion has many characteristics of a murder, including the killing of one human being by another, it’s unethical, and it is done without the consent of the person.

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is sacred from conception until natural death, and the taking of innocent human life, whether born or unborn, is morally wrong. The Church teaches, "Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it remains for ever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end. God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being" ("Donum vitae," 5).

The term female foeticide means killing the female foetus in the mother's womb. How cruel? The practice has been followed in India for ages, a country that once described its women as godessess. For this reason, Indian women will soon get extinct. Surprised? The most active part is being played by the women themselves -- why? Just for the mere want of a boy, mothers don't feel bad in strangulating their daughters in their wombs. Can anyone be more cruel?

Abortion, virtually killing, defies the word of God. The Bible contains many rules and regulations to which we are commanded not to break. The Greek word brephos is used to describe an unborn child and an infant, and it’s mentioned countless times in all versions of the Bible. Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee...". This means that God created every single person, and planned for them to grow up and live a spiritual life. He knew everyone’s name before they were ever created. He even knew how many hairs would be on their head before they ever entered their mother’s womb. He NEVER intended for them to die. Exodus 20:13 says, “You shall not murder”

During abortions a lot of babies are aborted between 7th week and the 12th week. By the seventh week of pregnancy a baby’s, “Muscles and nerves begin working together. When the upper lip is tickled, the arms move backwards. The cerebrum has divided into hemispheres” (Agresti, 45 and 46). At the ninth week of pregnancy the baby, “More than 90% of the body structures found in a full-grown human are present. The medical classification changes from an embryo to a fetus. This dividing line was chosen by embryologists because from this point forward, most development involves growth in existing body structures instead of the formation of new ones. The preborn human moves body parts without any outside stimulation” (Agresti, 48.49.50). This website clearly states that the baby already has the organs of a full grown human. In the twelfth week of pregnancy the baby’s, “Electrical signals from the nervous system are measurable. After an abortion, efforts to suckle will sometimes be observed” (Agresti, 54.55). At this stage in the pregnancy, the infant has measurable brain activity. I don’t know what other consider to be life, but to me that is being alive. This article also states that after the abortion the baby will attempt to suckle. I believe that the reason for them doing is that because in one way or another the baby is attempting to fight for his/her life. They’re looking for a source of

At the moment when the sperm penetrates the egg, it creates a cell called a zygote which has its own DNA. Already this cell has determined what the child will look and act like. So is this cell an organism? Scientists define an organism as a complex structure of interdependent elements constituted

Table 1 shows percent distribution of unwanted births among ever married women whose most recent pregnancy occurred five years preceding the survey or who have been currently pregnant by some selected socio-demographic covariates. The result indicates that unwanted births are about 9.1 times higher among older women aged 25 years and more than their younger counterparts. Unwanted births among women decrease as education increases. Women with no education (28.1 percent) or who had primary education (17.6 percent) are more likely to have had an unwanted pregnancy than women with secondary or higher education (6.6 percent). Unwanted birth is higher among women who are married before age 18 than those who have got marriage at age 18 and above (15.1

In kindergarten , children learn to decipher betweens things that are living and things that are not. The bird is living, the bug is living, and even the grass is living. Once children reach grades a little higher, they get into science and learn that cells, atoms, and molecules are living, too! Even though these are basic concepts, some ignorant adults still seem to believe that in the first few weeks of pregnancy that baby is only a clump of cells; therefore it is not a living being. It is a real live baby. Abortion is extremely brutal to the baby, as well. In some procedures they even stop his/her heart.(plannedparenthood.org).

Contemporary Indian society professes a profound faith in every individual’s “right to life and dignity”. The rights relating to the weaker & vulnerable sections of Indian society especially women, and more specially the girl child were violated. The twin social evils of female foeticide & female infanticide were the main causes.Violence against women exists in various forms, in all societies, the world over. In 1996 the world health assembly endorsed the fact that violence against women is a Public Health problem and female foeticide is one extreme manifestation of violence against women. India is a country of 102.7 crore population, out of which 53.1 crores is of males and 49.6 crores is of females,