Why Abortions Should Not Be Tolerated

We live in an epoch of complex problems. The ideas of tolerance and human rights protection, based on the idea that every human being is a master of their life, have contributed into letting people live as they want and do what they will – in reasonable measures. In particular, tolerance has seemingly resolved or smoothened a number of moral dilemmas that humanity faced during the past centuries. However, there still exists several extremely important and disputable questions, such as euthanasia, implanted ID chips, biometric identification, and abortion. Abortion is, perhaps, one of the oldest, and one of the most difficult issues to sort out among them; while proponents of abortion call for its acceptance, its opponents believe that it is immoral and inexcusable. And though many human rights protectors claim that every woman can do whatever she sees as expedient, I am strongly convinced that abortions can not be tolerated, as they harm mothers and their innocent children.

Any reasonable and sound person would be outraged and anxious if someone offered to grant mothers a right to kill their babies immediately after birth. This would be called inhumane and immoral – it would be a crime. However, this is what proponents of abortions actually do by standing for etching of the embryo before birth. They ignore the fact that the baby is already a human being, from the very first days after conceiving. According to W. L. Saunders, “Every human being begins as a single-cell zygote, grows through the embryonic stage, then the fetal stage, is born and develops through infancy, through childhood, and through adulthood, until death. Each human being is genetically the same human being at every stage, despite changes in his or her appearance” (Saunders). In other words, abortion is still infanticide, a killing of a living human being, despite the fact that the child is still in the womb.

Moreover, abortion does not pass without a trace in terms of women’s health....