Abortion is Wrong

My first point will be that abortion is murder, because the baby is alive, growing, showing vital signs, and developing. It is easy for a lot of people to say that the baby/foetus is not alive from the moment of conception because it neither looks like a more developed human nor can they see it. But it is alive, as it is carrying out cellular functions like mitosis and it is growing further into a more developed human. As with all things, this does take time, during which the baby should be most protected and at its safest as it cannot help itself. The baby is human. It has a complete set of human DNA which contains the information for all the different parts of its body that have not fully developed yet. Just because you cannot see those body parts doesn't mean they aren't actually there. The most unnatural thing a woman can do to her baby is kill it. It goes against every motherly instinct and shows only selfishness. Babies in the womb are often simply called "clumps of cells". This is a very stupid argument on the part of pro-abortion people as, while it is true, it is exactly what any living thing is. We are all made up of cells. So yes, the baby is a clump of cells, but so are you and so is the next person and everyone else living on this planet. What separates you from that baby is a matter of time and development. Babies also show human emotion/responses/behaviours while in the womb. Ultrasounds have shown babies sucking their thumbs in the womb, responding with joy to their parents loving talk to them despite not being able to see them, and responding with fear to the mother's stress etc. Today, killing another human being is considered murder, unless you do it in the name of choice. Despite all the clear evidence that a baby in the womb is alive and human (what else could it be, if it is a human's offspring and must be killed/terminated? ) , the murder of that baby is legal and accepted by many. If your four year old sister was brutally murdered by way of dismemberment while she was still alive, would you not seek justice? This is what happens to babies in the womb. They are pulled out piece by piece in a method compared to "a shark attack in the womb" because someone did not want them. If the argument of not being fully developed enough to be called human stands in this case, and one might say that the baby is not fully developed therefore not fully human (I've heard this argument before), then where is the line? A human's brain is not fully developed until approximately the age of 25 years. "The rational part of a teen's brain isn't fully developed and won't be until he or she is 25 years old or so. " (1). So why is abortion limited to babies in the womb, if the argument is enough development? What if you decided you didn't want your five year old? Would that still be your choice? "My child, my time, my choice" will be the next pro-abortion slogan. As it is, women are deluded by the saying "my body, my choice". Yes, it is your choice in the end, but it's not your body being aborted. It's not your body being scraped out of the place where it should be safest, of all places. It's not your body being torn to shreds, or injected with poison, or simply pulled out alive and dropped in a bucket of burning chemical solution to die screaming and later be tossed in the trash. It does happen. But the cruelty is ignored by those who wish to stick their heads in the sand because they are fighting for "women's rights". What if the child was a girl? Where are her women's rights? Abortion is dangerous. More dangerous than childbirth. While, if you look it up, the official statement is that "abortion is safer than childbirth", the fact remains that many deaths by legal abortion are not reported. I keep as up to date as I can in the pro-life vs pro-abortion stuff as I can, and so often I see reports there of women dying in botched abortions, while less than one in ten thousand women die in childbirth. For those women who do survive abortion and go on to have children later, abortion prior to that time will actually increase the chances of maternal deaths in full-term pregnancies. Studies show that the risk of ectopic pregnancies is twice as high for women who have had one abortion, and up to four times as high for women with two or more previous abortions. There has been a 300% increase of ectopic pregnancies since abortion was legalised. Ectopic pregnancies account for 12% of pregnancy-related maternal deaths (2). Not only is abortion usually fatal for the child, but it is dangerous for the mother also. While it can cause physical problems for her, it also causes mental and emotional problems. A May 2010 study put out by the University of Manitoba in Canada found women who have had abortions are about four times more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol as those who carried their pregnancy to term (3). Researchers in Finland interviewed 600,000 women for a study that showed women who became pregnant and had abortions were six times more likely to commit suicids than women who carried their pregnancies to term. The statistics are even grimmer for teenagers. One study found that teenage girls who had one or more abortions were 10 times more likely to commit suicide than those who never aborted. Another study revealed that the rate of psychiatric hospitalisation for teenagers who had abortions is three times higher than that of other teens (4). So you see, not only are the children very highly likely to die in abortion (occasionally one is botched and the child survives, though is often left to die by doctors), but the risk is quite high for mothers as well. I await my opponent's rebuttal. (1) . https://www.urmc.rochester.edu... (2) www. abortionfacts. com/facts/11#2 (3) www. lifenews. com/2010/09/28/nat-6733/ (4) liveactionnews. org/studies-show-risk-of-suicide-elevated-in-women-after-abortion/