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Abortion is the ending of pregnancy before birth and is morally wrong. An
abortion results in the death of an embryo or a foetus. Abortion destroys the
lives of helpless, innocent children and illegal in many countries. By aborting
these unborn infants, humans are hurting themselves; they are not allowing
themselves to meet these new identities and unique personalities. Abortion is
very simply wrong. Everyone is raised knowing the difference between right and
wrong. Murder is wrong, so why is not abortion? People argue that it is not
murder if the child is unborn. Abortion is murder since the foetus being
destroyed is living, breathing and moving. Why is it that if an infant is
destroyed a month before the birth, there is no problem, but if killed a month
after birth, this is inhumane murder? It is morally and strategically foolish,
because we lose the middle when we talk about reproductive rights without
reference to a larger moral and spiritual dimension, and we are unwilling to use
language like transgression and redemption, or right and wrong.
Wolf p54 The
main purpose abortions are immoral is how they are so viciously done. Everyday,
innocent, harmless foetuses that could soon be laughing children are being
brutally destroyed. One form of abortion is to cut the foetus into pieces with
serrated forceps before being removed, piece by piece from the uterus by suction
with a vacuum aspirator. Another form consists of bringing the foetus feet first
into the birth canal, puncturing its skull with a sharp instrument and sucking
out the brain tissue. The body parts, such as the head, are given letters,
rather than refer to the parts as what they are. In my opinion this is for the
doctors who cannot face the reality of what they are doing. The remains of the
foetus or embryo, as the case may be, are put into everyday, plastic buckets and
then sent to a dumpster where these precious bones and limbs are disposed.
However, how and when an abortion takes place are matters of little importance
to pro- abortionists and other defenders. Even former abortion practitioners
from varying backgrounds and religions have a new view on abortion. These
changes of heart were caused by psychological, religious and scientific reasons.
One doctor, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, performed 60,000 abortions and supervised
10,000, before scientific evidence and the use of an ultrasound, convinced him
he was promoting and participating what he now calls the most atrocious
holocaust in the history of the United States. Other doctors refuse to perform
legal abortions, saying they should save lives rather than destroy them. Many
argue is it the women's or the foetus' rights and values that are being trampled
on? Pro-choice movements sometimes fall back on an abortion rhetoric that seems
to dehumanize and trivialize the death of a foetus as a way to humanize and make
important the reproductive rights of women.
(Wolf p54) Women can treat an
unwanted foetus as a violation of her civil rights and is therefor justified tin
using force to expel it (McMillan pA12) The decision is not up to the mother
because she is not God. Only God, the ultimate creator has the right to choose
who may live and who shall die. Humans do not have the right or the power to
control the quality of life and to avoid suffering. The issue of abortion is not
just life, but how life is created and the extent to which human intention and
control the process, both before and after birth. All humans inventions and
interventions may give us a world to regret. (Clark p3) With abortion, we humans
give ourselves dominion over a large part of God's plans and our destiny.
Abortion becomes especially evil when the bond between mother and child is
broken and it is being used as an alternative birth control when humans cannot
control their irresponsible sexual hungers. If beings are responsible enough to
be sexually active, they should also be responsible enough to accept
consequences, and if that means becoming pregnant and creating a life, then that
life should have the opportunity to live. There should be a bond or relationship
between a mother and child, whether born or unborn. Mothers and her children
form a bond unlike any other felling of love; when a child is aborted, before
given the right to grow in the bond, does the mother feel the connection with
her child or is it just uterine material. Abortion is never about just abortion.
It is about questions like whether the society at large, or individual pieces of
it, regards the fact of women's fertility as burden or gift, and how they treat
it, and what are the incentives ad disincentives they provide? How the rearing
of children is regarded - benefit or burden, or sometimes a balance of those,
and who is responsible for that?
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