Abortion: Is It Murder?
Abortion is an extremely controversial issue and one that many people can have very strong feelings for on both sides of the debate. Those who support abortion rights argue that it is a woman’s choice what to do with her body. Although, the unborn baby inside a woman is still a person living, and terminating that pregnancy is the same thing as murder. No one should have the choice to commit murder. Abortion is honestly wrong because the laws prohibiting abortion help to keep people from playing God for selfish reasons.
According to the “Guttmacher Institute,” in the United States about 1.6 million pregnancies end in abortion. Women with incomes under eleven thousand dollars are over three times more likely to abort than those with incomes above twenty-five thousand. Which shows that woman have abortions because they can not pay for their own child. Why should anyone kill a human when they did not do anything wrong? The one making a mistake is the person who is having an abortion. Unmarried women are four to five times more likely to have abortions than married and the abortion rate has doubled for 18 and 19 year olds. Recently the U.S. rate dropped 6 percent overall, but the rate of abortion among girls younger than 15 jumped 18 percent. The rate among minority teens rose from 186 per 1,000 to 189 per 1,000. This is showing that the younger the girl, the higher the abortion rate might be.
No matter what age the woman is, everyone has to have an abortion somehow. The most popular procedure involved in abortions is the vacuum aspiration which is done during the first trimester (three months or less since the women has become pregnant). A tube is inserted through the cervix and the uterus is vacuumed out. The second most commonly used type of trimester abortion is called dilation and evacuation. Since the fetus is big, has bones, and can move, second trimester is not as easy. Once most of the fetus and placenta are vacuumed out tweezers are used to remove the...
According to the “Guttmacher Institute,” in the United States about 1.6 million pregnancies end in abortion. Women with incomes under eleven thousand dollars are over three times more likely to abort than those with incomes above twenty-five thousand. Which shows that woman have abortions because they can not pay for their own child. Why should anyone kill a human when they did not do anything wrong? The one making a mistake is the person who is having an abortion. Unmarried women are four to five times more likely to have abortions than married and the abortion rate has doubled for 18 and 19 year olds. Recently the U.S. rate dropped 6 percent overall, but the rate of abortion among girls younger than 15 jumped 18 percent. The rate among minority teens rose from 186 per 1,000 to 189 per 1,000. This is showing that the younger the girl, the higher the abortion rate might be.
No matter what age the woman is, everyone has to have an abortion somehow. The most popular procedure involved in abortions is the vacuum aspiration which is done during the first trimester (three months or less since the women has become pregnant). A tube is inserted through the cervix and the uterus is vacuumed out. The second most commonly used type of trimester abortion is called dilation and evacuation. Since the fetus is big, has bones, and can move, second trimester is not as easy. Once most of the fetus and placenta are vacuumed out tweezers are used to remove the...
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