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Abortion It is an undoubted fact of biological science that from the moment
of conception, a new human life has been created. Only those who are irrational
or ignorant of science doubt that when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum, a
new human being is created. That is why I disagree with aborting infants. If
abortion is the taking of a human life and yet people feel that it should be
just a personal matter between a woman and a doctor there seems to be two
choices open to them. First, that they would believe that other acts of
destruction to human beings should be of no concern of society and therefore,
eliminate them from the criminal code. Secondly, because a person is not close
to the deceased, they shouldn’t be concerned with their death.
I agree that the
fetus has not developed full potential as a human being, but, neither have any
of us. Nor will any of us ever reach that level of perfection. Because some of
us may be less far along the path than others, does not give them the right to
kill us. Those in favor of abortion assume that they have that right. To say
that a ten week fetus has a less value that a baby, means also that one must
consider a baby of less value then a child, a young adult of less value than an
old man. This idea is completely absurd. Some try to excuse the murder of a
person because the mother might have been forced upon pregnancy due to either
the tragedy of rape or incest. I am not condemning the crime that the female had
to undergo, but I will also not condemn abortion.
No sane reasoning can place
the slightest blame on the unborn child it might produce. Murder is never
justified, even to relieve a great pain, and even if there was a prior
injustice, such as the child being forced on the woman against her will. Should
we compound the psychic scar already inflicted on the matter by her having the
guilt of destroying a living being which was at least half her own? While it is
easy to feel that abortion is being performed for the sake of the fetus, in
reality abortions are performed for adults. There is no way to indicate that an
infant with a birth defect would rather not be born since he cannot be
consulted. If we kill infants with confidential defects before they are born,
why not after birth, why not any human, we declare defective?
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