The first reason abortion should be illegal is that it harms
women. Leslie Carbone says in her essay “Abortion Harms Women,” that studies
have shown that women who have an abortion are three times more likely to
commit suicide than the general population of America and six times more likely
to commit suicide than women who have given birth to babies (165). In most
cases, women admit that they think about their unborn child daily and grieve on
every birthday that might have been if they had not killed their child, and
when they see other women with children they are reminded of their children
would have been if they had not taken the life of their baby. (Carbone
165) Abortion also harms women
physically. Many mothers have become infertile, very sick, or even died from
the abortion surgery. There is also a
new found link between abortion and breast cancer. When carrying a baby a
mother has hormones that are released in her body so that she can produce milk
and a short time before she gives birth these hormones fully develop and mature
so that her body can take care of the child. However when a woman then has an
abortion, these hormones do not reach their last “maturing” stage and therefore
can be very dangerous to the woman and increase her chance of breast cancer or
even initiate breast cancer (Carbone 166). Some say since abortion clinics are
now legal, abortions are safer. However, all it has done is allow doctors who
performed illegal unsafe abortions in the past, the ability to perform legal
unsafe abortions.
One prevalent argument for abortion is that if a female is
raped she should be allowed to have an abortion. One of the most horrible
things that the pro-abortion advocates have achieved is in convincing people
that the babies of rape victims are unwanted and somehow disgusting because of
the origin of their conception. People are often deceived into thinking that an
abortion will erase the memory of being raped or that a baby will be a daily
reminder of a horrible event in the victims’ lives. William Norman Grigg reports in his essay
“Rape Does Not Justify Abortion,” that studies have shown, however, that the
women who have had an abortion after being raped have even more psychological
problems, some of which they never recover from because of the traumatic
experiences of both rape and abortion (136). Is it better to choose an abortion
over adoption? No. Even though a girl may still have to carry a baby for nine
months a human life is still the one natural and good thing that comes from
rape. Aborting a baby that was conceived by rape simply perverts the unnatural
situation even further. Rape is a terrible thing, but a baby is still a gift no
matter what the circumstances.
The last and most important problem with abortion is that it
kills people. When a sperm meets an egg the immediate result is fertilization.
Neither a sperm nor an egg is considered a living organism, because they cannot
sustain life and they do not grow. However the moment the sperm comes in
contact egg to fertilize it, the embryo is a living organism, because a
fertilized egg is a living growing organism (Gargaro 37). Abortion is genocide. Every time a woman has
an abortion she is murdering her baby, her own flesh and blood. People say that
a baby in the womb is just a part of the mother and not a separate being,
however even inside the womb a baby has its own blood type. If the mother’s
blood mixes with the baby’s blood, the baby dies. How then can we say that a
baby is not a human being? It is often said that abortion is not genocide
because genocide is a “hate crime,” and abortion clinics do not dislike
babies--they just have the mother’s best interests in mind. However according
to Gregg Cunningham in his essay “Abortion is Genocid,e” the fact that abortion
clinics do not dislike babies does not seem to be the case with clinics of
South Dakota and Minnesota which have published the newspaper ad: “BABIES ARE
LOUD, SMELLY, AND EXPENSIVE, UNLESS YOU WANT ONE. 1-800-230-PLAN”(57). This is obviously a degrading statement about
babies. In some states contradictorily, if a pregnant mother is killed in a car
crash, the person who initiated the crash is charged with two deaths, but these
states also declare that babies are not people. If a woman doesn’t want her
baby then a woman that is pregnant can easily give her child up for adoption,
which would mean giving different couple the chance to enjoy and love the
person that she has created.
Abortion is unnatural and harmful to both women and babies.
The American culture has come to undervalue life. If abortion is allowed to go
on like this, it will make a gateway that might make other disgusting crimes
seem less sinister, acceptable, or even encouraged. As explained above, babies
are humans from the moment of conception, and to take the life of a human is
wrong and repulsive. The line is too fine to say when a collection of cells is
actually a baby or not; therefore, a baby is a human from the moment of
conception. The abortion clinics also do not inform women about the
consequences or effects of having an abortion which often causes great regret
in a woman’s life. The abortion clinics also wrongly convince rape victims that
their children will be a horrible reminder rather than a beautiful little baby
that was created under unfortunate circumstances. In all, women need to be
warned before they are undervalued or harmed by the severe effects of abortion.
Works Cited
Carbone, Leslie. “Abortion Harms Women.” Abortion: Opposing
Viewpoints. Ed. Mary E. Williams.
San Diego: Greenhaven press, Inc., 2002. 164-168. Print
Cuningham, Gregg. “Abortion is a Form of Genocide.”
Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints. Ed. Mary E.
Williams. San Diego: Greenhaven press, Inc., 2002. 54-57.
Print
Gargaro C. Carolyn. “Abortion Violates Human Rights.” Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints. Ed. Mary E.
Williams. San Diego: Greenhaven press, Inc., 2002. 36-44.
Print
Grigg, William Norman. “Rape Does Not Justify Abortion.”
Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints. Ed. Mary E.
Williams. San Diego: Greenhaven press, Inc., 2002. 135-141.
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