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Abortion

Abortion
Should abortion be legal with extreme constraints? The highly acclaimed politician John S. McCain said it best during a debate: "I have come to the conclusion that the exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother are legitimate exceptions" to an outright ban on abortions. "I don't claim to be a theologian, but I have my moral beliefs." There are different methods of carrying out an abortion; however all methods lead to the same result: the termination of a pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or a fetus. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade set the stage to legalize abortion, and much debate has stemmed from the landmark decision. In the Roe v. Wade case, a woman from Texas sought to terminate her pregnancy by abortion, and at the time, the current Texas state law prohibited abortions. The issue posed was that it was a woman's constitutional right of privacy (Fourteenth Amendment) to terminate her pregnancy. The final decision favored the right of abortion to the woman in the first trimester and left the second and third trimesters to the legislation of individual states. Abortion is morally wrong and there must be legal constraints implemented to prevent its casual occurrence. Abortion should only be an option in the rare cases of rape, incest, and potential bodily harm to the mother.
"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life." (Potter Stewart) It is vital for the unacquainted to comprehend the procedures involved with the common surgical abortion methods in order to become more familiar with the brutality that is involved with the killing of an unborn child. The Suction Aspiration method is the most common surgical method performed during the first twelve weeks of pregnancy (within the first trimester):
A suction curette (hollow tube with a knife-edged tip is inserted into the womb. This...

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