What Is Abortion Essay

Abortion in the United States

Abortion, one of the most controversial topics in the United States. Many people argue that it's safe, it's humane and that it is the mothers decision ultimately. But, is it really? Abortion is the intended discontinuance of a pregnancy, most commonly carried out in the first twelve to thirteen weeks. In other words, it's where you knowingly kill your baby who is growing inside of you. Although it's most common for women to get an abortion in the first twelve to thirteen weeks, some states allow them to be performed up to twenty four weeks into the pregnancy. In some cases, you can even get an abortion after twenty four weeks (New Health Guide). In my opinion, abortion is nothing more than murder and it should be illegal in every state, of every country.

Imagine if someone took away your ability to live and imagine you not having a say in whether you lived or you died. That would be wrong, wouldn't it? Most people would argue everyone has the right to live. So why is this argument generally thrown out of the window when it comes to the topic of abortions? Many people argue that you become a person with rights after birth because you are then viable, meaning you can survive outside of the womb. In my opinion, a person is a person from the moment they're conceived. Life ultimately begins at conception, so those fetuses and embryos are human beings with a right to live, just like everybody else. When an egg is fertilized, a human being is created. It has human DNA and is an offspring to a human. Making it a human being. Whether or not he or she can survive on their own at that point, the point is, a human being has been created. Over the course of the next nine months following the conception, that per...

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Something needs to be done about abortion and that something is making it illegal. No unborn baby should have their life taken away simply because someone else says so. Every single human being has the right to live. Many people argue that a baby inside of the womb should not be accounted because it is not a viable human being but none the less, it's a human being. From the moment of conception a new life is created and that life, just like everybody else's should be protected. It is sickening that our country allows for over a million lives to be disregarded and ended each year. There are alternatives for mothers who do not want to care for a child and if a mother just does not want to be pregnant what so ever, she should either stop having sex or get her tubes tied before a pregnancy can occur. Abortion needs to be illegal in every state, of every country.