Abortion Essay

A single issue seldom divides the American people. Several that have include slavery, the turmoil linked to the civil rights movement, and the rift over the war in Vietnam. Now another issue has surfaced, an issue that potentially threatens our national solidarity. To many citizens, it is the matter of life or death and may be the most serious ethical dilemma the United States has ever faced. This issue is abortion. Although abortion is sometimes considered a necessity through society’s eyes, there are many reasons abortion should be made illegal.

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Women who go in to have an abortion are generally thinking about one thing: themselves. When a woman begins thinking or researching abortion, often times pro-choice doctors start filling her mind with convenience issues and cost differences between an abortion and a pregnancy. These doctors fail to mention the many negative side-effects of abortion pertaining to the mother receiving the procedure. Different abortions cause different side-effects including, but not limited to a hole in the uterus, injury to the bowel or bladder, cut or torn cervix, infection, or a hemorrhage. Although it is rare, abortion can sometimes lead to death not only for the baby, but for the mother as well. About 77 deaths are recorded per every thousand abortions after 21 weeks. This ratio is increased for more advanced pregnancies.

Three out of every 100 abortions result in an incomplete abortion. The further advanced the pregnancy, the higher the risk of an incomplete abortion. This occurs when the pregnancy has been ended, but the fetus is too large for the body to expel it. This remaining tissue can putrefy and result in a uterine infection. Left untreated, this infection can cause steriliza...

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...ate and local government. The government will protect and defend people with disabilities’ right against discrimination, but the law contradicts itself by pushing standard measures to ensure the prevention of a baby with a disability to be born.

Abortion was legalized 41 years ago. Since then, the number of children abused has risen drastically. The suicide rate among women has spiked, caused by depression women feel after having an abortion. Women’s World reports a study of aborted women in which 45% claimed to have thoughts of suicide following their abortions. Abortion is often said to be a modern holocaust in which we are accomplices. The number of babies aborted each day is about the same as the number of people killed on 9/11. However, the controversial question still stands: Should babies have a right to life or should this right be left up to their mothers?