Abortion: The Murder of Inconvenient Lives

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Mother Teresa once said, “The greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another” (“Quotes”). I vehemently oppose abortion because I believe it is the practice of killing the weakest and most defenseless among us to gain personal appeasement. Abortion has many perspectives and debatable issues within itself. Three of the most significant issues that support the opposition toward abortion include the legalization of abortion, when human life begins, and what life would be like without abortion.

Currently, abortion is legal in the United States. The legalization of abortion became well-defined in 1973 when the U.S. Supreme Court made their decision on the Roe v. Wade case (“Abortion: Update”). The government defends their judgment of approving abortion by declaring that abortion is a woman’s individual right, right to her life, to her liberty, and to the pursuit of her happiness that sanctions her right to have an abortion (“Abortion: Update”). However, what is not mentioned by the government is the most important factor, the baby’s rights. These rights pertain to all citizens disregarding their age, so the fetus should get identical rights as any other human being. With the fetus’s rights considered, abortion actually goes against the right of the fetus, thus the government should make abortion illegal. Nonetheless, many pro-life adherents assert that a fetus is not a living human being yet, therefore should not get the same right as humans.

The point when human life begins is the most controver...

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