Abortion: Is It Murder? Essay, Research Paper

Abortion: Is it Murder?

A mother kills her baby because it is unwanted, yet she is not charged

with murder. Is this right? Believe it or not, this has happened more than

twenty-million times in the past twenty years. The problem is that they have

been killed legally because of abortion. Many people approve of abortion

because they consider that a fetus is not an individual human until birth.

Abortion is wrong and it shouldn’t be legal. If a doctor killed a baby

one minute after it were born, they would be charged with murder. But if they

were to kill a baby one minute before it were born, and a minute before that and

so on, they would not be considered a murderer. At what minute can one consider

life worthless and the next precious?

Some people will say that abortion is not a matter of life and death,

but medical research proves that the fetus is a living organism. People also

argue that a woman has the right to control her body and has the right to an

abortion, but the fetus is a completely different life. Just because the unborn

is dependent on the mother for nine months does not give anyone the right to end

it’s life.

I hope that I have at least brought you to some understanding that a

human fetus is a living individual. It should be remembered that a death occurs

every time an abortion is performed–the death of an unborn child.