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Abortion: Birth Control or Murder

Approximately 1. 6 million murders are committed legally each year. With the exception of laws in few states, the mutilated bodies of the victims are thrown into dumpsters like pieces of rotten meat. While these victims lay waiting in the infested dumpsters to be hauled off to a landfill, the murderers are in their offices waiting for their next patient–the accomplice to the murder. This is the murder of an innocent child by a procedure known as abortion. Abortion stops the beating of an innocent child’s heart. People must no longer ignore the scientific evidence that life begins at the moment of conception.

People can no longer ignore the medical and emotional problems an abortion causes women. People must stop denying the facts about the procedure, and start hearing the silent screams of unborn children. The fetus is a real human being and deserves all the rights and freedom given to people under the Constitution. This right is evident in the Fourteenth Amendment that states, The State shall not deprive any person of life, liberty, property, without due process of the law; nor denies any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.

Abortion denies babies equal protection under the law, and is depriving a person of life. Thomas Jefferson stated human rights best when he wrote, We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. All unborn babies have the right to life guaranteed to humans under the constitution. No other person has the right to take away the unborn child’s life, no matter what the situation is.

One must not sacrifice a life to make one’s own life better. Many argue that most of the babies that are aborted are unwanted babies. They believe that they would be abused and neglected. This is why abortion is okay to them. They believe abortion is saving the child from abuse. Abortion, however, is the most severe case of child abuse. The procedures are painful to the child and intentionally end in death, except in cases where the procedure results in a living child. About once a day, somewhere in the US, something goes wrong and an abortion results in a live baby.

The fetus is alive and has the capacity to feel the painful abortion procedure. The US Department of Health and Human Services reported that after nine weeks unborn babies can feel pain, yet 48 per cent of all abortions are done after this point. The baby can feel all the pain put on it by the painful procedures. The ultra sound shows the baby struggling to survive. Abortionist doctors such as Joseph Randall admit that seeing the abortion “. . . of the baby on the ultra sound bothered me more than anything else. The staff couldn’t take it.

Women were never allowed to see the ultra sound. Women should be allowed to see this. They should see the struggling of the life they are killing. An early abortion takes about five minutes and is performed six to fourteen weeks after a woman’s last period. The procedure is called a suction aspiration. It is like a vacuum cleaner. A hollow plastic tube with a sharp edge is placed into the uterus. The suction tears the baby apart, and the sharp edge is used to scrape the placenta from the wall of the uterus. Everything is sucked out into a bottle.

The other common method is dilation and curettage. A curette, which is a loop-shaped steel knife, is inserted into the uterus, and the baby and the placenta are cut into pieces and scraped out. Both procedures are usually done under general anesthesia, so they’re not painful for the mother. Of course we know the child feels pain. Another method that is not performed much anymore is the saline injection; a long slow death process of poisoning the baby. The saline injection was developed in the Nazi Concentration Camps. The most controversial form of abortion is the partial-birth abortion.

Using an ultra sound the abortionist grabs the baby’s legs with forceps and pulls them out into the birth canal. The abortionist then delivers the entire baby except for the head and continues by jamming scissors into the baby’s skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole. The scissors are removed and a suction is inserted. The baby’s brains are sucked out causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed. It has been proven that babies can feel pain in these procedures. The fetus can feel pain because it is alive and growing like a human.

Something that is not living cannot feel pain. If one crushes a pop can as the abortionist crushes a baby, the pop can feels no pain because it is not living. The baby feels pain because it is a living human being. Abortion is wrong because it deprives the baby of rights and happiness because of the suffering it must go through during the abortion. Abortion is one of the key issues facing the human race today. This issue, like many, forces people to take sides against each other, and is one of the main factors people look at when voting. In a 1973 court ruling, known as Roe v. Wade, abortion became legal.

Since this ruling the number of teen pregnancies has increased from 4. 94 per cent in 1972 to 9. 92 per cent in 1990. The number of teen abortions has doubled from 19. 9 per thousand teenagers in 1972 to 43. 8 per thousand teenagers in 1990 while the number of teen births has increased from 22. 8 to 42. 5 per thousand. The number of births to unmarried women has increased 7. 3 per cent during the years from1972 to 1990 while the number of abortions increased 11. 7 per cent during those years. Abortion should no longer be legal. It is rapidly becoming a form of birth control.

No longer must women worry about protection, if they should conceive a child, they can choose to take its life. One-third of all babies are aborted, which entitles the abortion industry to $500 million a year in income in the United States. Abortion is the most frequent surgical operation in the US, and the leading cause of death in Minnesota. Currently there are two million couples waiting for adoption in America, yet there are 30 abortions for every one adoption. These statistics are true. Abortion needs to be stopped. There are arguments against the stopping of abortion.

However, there are solutions. Many say abortion should be legal if the woman’s life is in danger. Only three percent of all abortions are done for the mother’s health, where 40 percent of women who have abortions will have more than one, and 50 per cent use it as their sole means of birth control. As for the argument that women will do them illegally in the back alleys endangering their lives, 72 per cent said they would definitely not have sought an abortion if they were illegal, and death happens during a legal abortion too; maternal death rates for first trimester abortions are 61 per 100,000 cases.

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