Abortion Essay, Research Paper

ABORTION: IS IT A CHOICE OR MURDER?

When does human life begin?. Human life begins at conception. A sperm, with its twenty-three chromosomes, it not a human being. An ovum with its twenty-three chromosomes also, is not a human being. But, when they unite into one entity with all forty-six chromosomes, the result is a human being. (191). This is a medical fact. The fertilized egg is a human being with its own traits, genes, characteristics, and identity. The only thing left for it to do now is to grow.

Jones and Schraeder state that by the twelfth day after conception, the fetus is planted in the uterus, its home for the next nine months. (213). By day twenty-four, the fetus has an auditory heartbeat. Six weeks after conception, the fetus nervous system is controlling its own body, brain waves can be first sensed, and it now looks distinctively human. Seven weeks into the fetus development, it has the complete internal organs of an adult. (224). After only 24 weeks of development, the fetus is now viable, or able to live outside the womb. (227).

Pro-abortionists often proclaim that a woman has the right to do with her body what she chooses. A right to do what? A right to murder? Murder is not a right. In every law book in this country it is a crime. If you commit the murder another human being, you are jailed and charged with murder. Then why is a woman not charged with murder when she chooses to end her unborn child s life? Does it mean that they are only alive when they change location and live outside the womb? A baby in the womb is a conscious being. As early as three months after conception, babies react to pain and pressure.

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The pro-abortionist would say it is better to have an aborted child than an abused child. Isn t abortion a form of abuse? Abortion is possibly one of the worse forms of abuse a human being can do to another human being. The abortion process itself is horribly abusive. One common process tears the tissue of the tiny, defenseless unborn child into pieces by violent suction. Another method uses a sharp instrument to chop the baby into pieces. These remains are then scraped from the womb and thrown into a trashcan. Not only is this baby being abused in the worse way possible, it is also robbed of its right to life.

What about adoption? This is definitely a better solution. A murder is not committed and a family is formed where there was no hope of a family before. The solution to unwanted pregnancy is not abortion, it is adoption. If the mother doesn t want to keep the baby, there are many families who cannot have children, who would gladly take the baby.

By aborting these babies, we are possibly responsible for perhaps the murder of the next President of the United States or the future inventor for the cure for cancer or AIDS. We are depriving our country of amazing individuals because we didn t give them a chance at life.

Here is something to ponder. What would have happened if a young girl, thousands of years ago, who wasn t married, whose family was very poor, and another mouth to feed would have proven a burden on the family would ve had an abortion? If she had had the abortion, then we would never have known a man named Jesus Christ.

Jones and Shrader. The Process of Human Fertilization and Development. Vol 48. No 2. Random. 1987.