Essay On Pro Life Movement

Pro-Life Movement Every year, in the United States alone, there are an estimated average of 700,000 abortions. In more than sixty percent of the world’s countries, abortion is legal. Abortion has also been legal in the United States since 1973. I believe that abortion should not be legal in any place in the world. Abortion should not be legalized because the unborn child should have the right to live.

Section one of the fourteenth amendment protects the rights of an unborn child by saying that the state can not ‘derive any person of life, liberty, or property’(14th Amendment). However, when abortion was legalized, the court overlooked the fact that the Constitution already protected the child’s rights. In the Roe vs Wade case, the Supreme Court ruled seven to two that the right to an abortion was part of a woman’s right to privacy. What about the rights of the child living inside of the woman? What the Supreme Court is saying is that, the value of the woman’s life is more important than that of an unborn child.

Many people believe that a child doesn’t become a person until the day they are born, which isn’t the case. W.B. Saunders stated, "The term conception refers to the union of the male and female pronuclear elements of procreation from which a new living being develops”(National Right To Life).
On the contrary, less than one percent of abortions are performed to save the mother’s life(Abortion Facts). The other part of the opposing argument would say that the mother should be able to abort a child with birth defects or health issues because the child is going to suffer his or her whole life if they don’t. However, no one can know what kind of life this child is going to live without them being here. Several issues that arise with a child can be solved or controlled with medication, treatment or wide varieties of