Abortion: A Social Injustice

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Every year, as many as a million lives are aborted; lives that could potentially have been your neighbor, your friend, or even your son or daughter. Abortion is the surgical process of killing a baby by various means; and has been in effect since the Supreme Court ruling on Roe V. Wade in 1973 which legalized it nationwide. It was, at first, endorsed as being a woman’s right, but has more recently been viewed by most as the murder of an innocent child. Besides this shift in views, abortion has caused diverse effects on our culture and nation, as well as the death of upwards of 56 million children according to Life News. Our society has been deeply impacted by the effects of abortion and the loss of millions of innocent lives, and Christian organizations such as Operation Rescue are working diligently to stop this threat and social injustice.
In 1973, a monumental decision was made via the Supreme Court case Roe V. Wade. Following the case, they deemed that almost any restrictions on abortions were unconstitutional, seeing it as a fundamental right. “The Court ruled that the states were forbidden from outlawing or regulating any aspect of abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy, could only enact abortion regulations reasonably related to maternal health in the second and third trimesters, and could enact abortion laws protecting the life of the fetus only in the third trimester. Even then, an exception had to be made to protect the life of the mother” (McBride). Since then, abortion has become much more common, with as many as “3,288 abortions per day, and 1.2 million abortions per year” according to the American Life League. In addition, many politicians and even some presidents have come to endorse and suppor...

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