Life After Abortion

There are a vast amount of difficulties facing a newborn. Newborns are prone to life’s difficulties because they are helpless. However, their parents guide and protect them from most of the difficulties that they have. Because infants can’t make their own decisions, it is up to the parents to make the choices that they feel are best for their child. These choices start from the moment that the child begins to develop in the womb, and last until the child is an adult. Parents sometimes do not make the best decisions, but they do what they feel is best for the child. For example, being vaccinated can be good for the child’s health but there are also many side effects that may come with it that parents feel may affect the child’s health. Aside
Although the womb seems like the safest place for the baby to be, there are still problems that can occur there. According to Julie Snyder, your lifestyle before, during and after pregnancy impacts your baby's health way beyond birth (Your Lifestyle)? However, some parents believe that the womb is the safest place for the baby. Because the child can’t make decisions while inside of the womb, it is up to the mother to make the best choices for her unborn. The choices that the mother makes while pregnant will have a major effect on the baby’s life and health. According to Ingrid Lobo and Kira Zhaurova, every year, an estimated 7.9 million infants are born with serious birth defects. Although some congenital defects can be controlled and treated, an estimated 3.2 million of these children are disabled for life. Moreover, birth defects are the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States (Christianson et al., 2006). Birth defects can also be
Just like all newborns, the baby is in fact helpless. The baby also cries loudly after being born. Unusually, the baby is referred to as “a fiend hid in a cloud” (line 4). Blake intentionally uses metaphors throughout the poem. It’s difficult to understand why he compares the child to a devil. It may be that the world is “hell” and the baby is considered a devil that has arrived there. In the beginning of the second stanza, the baby “struggles into his father’s hands” (line 5). This shows that the father is protective over the baby and holds him close to him. The infant is then said to be “striving against its swaddling bands (line 6).” The bands may be the covers that the child is wrapped in after being delivered. The newborn is wrapped tightly and is having trouble moving. Instead of giving up, the child is striving to overcome its obstacles. Newborns have to overcome a variety of obstacles during their first few months of life. For example, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), is the leading cause of deaths amongst, infants. However, according to Dr. Hannah C. Kinney and Dr. Bradley T. Thach, the most important advance has been the discovery that the prone sleep position more than triples the risk of SIDS, which in the early 1990s led to national and international campaigns advocating a supine sleep position for infants. Since then, it has been estimated that rates of SIDS have declined by more