The Right To Life
The Right to Life
The right to life is the most basic and important right that we have. In the past two hundred years, over one million Americans have died for their country. Monuments have been built and speeches have been delivered, honoring these American heroes. America is now engaged in a war where there are no heroes, no monuments or tributes - only victims. Our society has declared war on its most helpless members - our unborn children. Since that war was declared on January 22, 1973, there have been over 35 million deaths.
Abortion is one of the most controversial and important subjects of this generation. Much has changed in 25 years. Back then the central question that was argued was whether or not this was a human life. This argument has basically been answered. Yes, ultrasound and medical technology have gone a long way toward helping us. The other major argument that this is only a religious issue still surfaces and is still thrown at us, but now with much less force. As medical developments have proven the humanity of the unborn, parallel developments have shown this to be a human rights, a civil rights issue to more and more people.
Other arguments have fallen by the wayside. "Remember these are unwanted pregnancies that will grow to be unwanted and battered children." That argument is essentially dead as, after 25 years, we now have, not a decrease in battered children, but an explosion of battered children and child abuse. Abortion clearly has not solved this problem.
As for the argument that unwanted children are more prone to become criminals better to abort them before that happens; are we not innocent until it is proven we have committed the crime? I guess not, as long as you are in the womb according this argument. Those unwanted children who have become criminals, while sad, certainly are not sentenced to death that easily and they still have the possibility of changing their lives. Allowing abortion...
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