Essay On Abortion Should Be Illegal

What is an abortion? Should abortions be legal in the United States? An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy. Today, abortion is one of the most controversial topics in the United States, some people believe abortions should be illegal, but abortions are legal nationwide. My opinion is that abortions should be illegal because an unborn baby should have a chance at life just like the two who conceived it. Abortions should be illegal because there are ways to prevent a pregnancy, it is the killing of a living human being, murder, and it’s a possibility that a woman can have complications after an abortion including psychological trauma.
There are many ways to prevent a pregnancy and practice safe sex. Practicing safe sex consists of using contraceptives, birth control pills, the patch, vaginal ring, shots, practicing celibacy or abstinence. Celibacy is state of abstaining from marriage and sexual relations. These control methods might have side effects. Abstinence is any self-restraint, self-denial, or forbearance. Abstinence has a lot of advantages such as preventing STD’s, waiting to find the right partner, focusing on school, a person’s career, or extracurricular activities, and supports moral, personal or religious beliefs. Practicing celibacy is empowering,
After an abortion women can experience heavy bleeding, pain, fever, continuation signs of pregnancy. Some women can never conceive another child as long as they live after their first abortion. If a woman has the same exact symptoms as a pregnant woman, why have an abortion? Some women go in deep depression, and might have the temptation to commit suicide. The psychological trauma following the temptation to commit suicide may come from the sense of regret, anger, guilt, shame, sense of loneness or isolation, loss of self-confidence, insomnia, nightmares, relationship issues, eating disorder or