Abortion Is Murder

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An innocent child is killed because the mother is not prepared for a baby at that time in her life. Is it right for her to terminate her pregnancy because she doesn't want to raise a child? Abortion should be banned because too many babies are being killed from abortion, baby’s have been reported to survive abortions, and if you don't want a child or you don’t feel you could raise it you could always put it up for adoption.

Some people believe that when an abortion is performed that the baby is not developed, or as some say, “a bunch of cells”, but the truth is that before a women even knows she is pregnant, about four days missed cycle, that a baby already has a beating heart at 18 days. Also at 18 days their brain starts developing. At about 6 weeks they respond to touch. The brain and all body systems are present by 8 weeks and functioning a month later. At 11 to 12 weeks, the baby is sensitive to heat, touch, light, and noise. Also all the body systems are working. There have also been studies that show that a baby can feel pain at 20 weeks gestation. As they continue to grow day by day they don’t become babies they always have been they’ve just become more developed ones. These babies have their own DNA, sex, blood type, and fingerprint which makes them unique individual. These babies are people just like everyone else that has and will walk on this earth. They are human beings weither that are outside the womb or not. Abortions have more common in the past few years. Reports show that 56% of abortions are performed at 8 weeks of gestation, and 88% are performed before 13 weeks. Overall, 19% of abortions were performed at the earliest weeks of gestation 6 weeks, 18% at 7 weeks, and 19% at 8 weeks.

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