The Right to Life essays

The Right to Life essays Abortion, the termination of pregnancy before the fetus has attained the ability to live independently, is morally wrong. The decision of pro-life or pro-choice has been society's most controversial topic for years. Those who support pro-life believe that life itself begins at conception, and that abortion is the actual killing of a human life. Those who support pro-choice, on the other hand, believe that the child's mother has every right to carry out or end a pregnancy, and that the child in the womb is not a person until it is born. This has been proven wrong. The child is a person as soon as it is conceived, it is distinct and different and has its own heartbeat. The moment the sperm unites with the egg, the cells begin to divide into genes that will make the child unique and this can never be duplicated again. Abortion ends the lives of living, breathing, and moving children, and therefore I think it is murder. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that as long as the baby lived in the womb, it was the property of the mother. Because of this, one out of every three babies in America is killed by abortion, which is 1.5 million per year. In 1969, the abortion laws were changed in Canada, so that it became legal for a doctor to perform an abortion if a committee of three other doctors deemed that continuation of the pregnancy would cause a threat to the health of the mother. Imagine how many potential scientists, teachers, or just unique individuals have been killed by this There are several different forms of abortion, all of which are disgustingly violent and indecent: 1) Vacuum curettage is a powerful suction tube inserted through the cervix and into the womb. The fetus is torn apart by the force of the suction, and the body parts and placenta are then sucked into a jar. 2) Mifepristone is a chem ...