Pro Abortion Research Paper

Abortion: A Good Alternative to Pregnancy? Do you know what the world has too much of? It’s humans that the world has too many of. Yet every day, many women are still denied access to abortion. With abortion, women will never have to face the haunting feeling of being forced to have a child. Abortion should be legally allowed in all fifty states, because not only does it provide freedom and choice for the parent, but it benefits the child as well. “Abortion is the stopping of pregnancy, either through a miscarriage or artificially induced, by the removal of the fetus or embryo from the uterus” (O’Brien). There are two sides on the abortion debate, pro-choice, who support abortion, and pro-life, who do not. Pro-choice supports believe that women should have the freedom and the choice of having a child, and that a woman should not be forced to have a child. Pro-life
Pro-life supporters believe “every abortion kills an innocent human being” (AbortionFacts.com). They also believe that “the 8 week+ unborn baby feels real physical pain during an abortion” (AbortionFacts.com). They feel this way, because they believe that “a mammal’s life begins when the sperm from the father unites with the egg from the mother” (Harrison). Although there is life in a fetus, a fetus is not a human. Abortion is terminating pregnancy, not a human life. According to Stuart W. G. Derbyshire, PhD, fetuses cannot feel pain during an abortion. Some pro-life supporters also believe that abortion is against the will of God, because The Sixth Commandment of the Bible’s Old Testament states that “thou shall not kill” (Exodus 20:13). Therefore, performing an abortion counts as killing, and is against the will of god. This is wrong because “religious ideology should not be a foundation for law in the United States” (ProCon.org). Although there are some negative sides of abortion, the positive sides greatly outweigh