Abortion
On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court legalized abortion. When I
t ruled that abortion was legal, the court not only gave women the right to choose but also
gave the unborn babies the right to die. Since that day, millions upon millions of unborn
children have been ripped apart, burned with saline solutions, and sucked from their
mother's wombs. With every abortion that occurs another inaudible scream from the
unborn child is silenced and the rights of that child is taken away .
If someone where to be asked if murder was wrong, the general answer would be
yes. When that same person is asked if abortion is murder, the answer may be yes, but
most likely the answer is no. Why do most people think that murder is wrong, but do not
agree that abortion is murder? The reason for this contradiction is that most people
believe that the unborn infant is not a human, but an organ or part of the woman's body,
which would make the act of aborting the child just the same as removing an appendix.
This problem of when life begins stems from the inconsistencies which come from the
case of Roe vs. Wade. The Supreme Court interpreted that by the ninth and fourteenth
amendments that a woman has the right to an abortion. The court that day, however, did
not rule when a life begins for a human. If society is to assume that a fetus is a human the
second it leaves the uterus, then what is the unborn baby three minutes from birth , a
monkey. When an unborn baby is aborted, society must realize that an organ was not
taken out, but a living human being. This would make abortion wrong because according
to law, no one has the right to take away anther's life.
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