Abortion

Abortion is justified.Women, just like everybody else, have the right do to whatever they want with their body. Unless you live in a dictatorship, you're a free individual. The unborn child is a living organism, with human genes. But the embryo is fully dependent on the mother's metabolism and the being does not posses an independent complex catabolic system. It cannot survive outside the mother, embryogenesis and early fetal development can't be performed without the metabolism of, you know it, the mother's body. Additionally the unborn child is not conscious. After the development of more complex centres of the nervous system, these beings are still not conscious. Invasive experiments in rat and lamb pups and observational studies using ultrasound and electrical recordings in humans show that the third-trimester fetus is almost always in one of two sleep states. Called active and quiet sleep, these states can be distinguished using electroencephalography.Therefore we can conclude that unborn children, especially in their early stages are not persons.Abortions enable us to remove unborn children that have defects. They can range from hormonal errors (which can result in missing limbs) to severe genetic disorders (such as the polycystic kidney disease). People with defects are going to live bad lives, they will suffer (but not neccessarily) and the people around them will love them, but will also suffer. Such people are also huge financial burdens. We can prevent future suffering with abortions.There are economic reasons to why abortion is good. Unwanted and unexpected pregnancies will deliver children, if abortions are not performed. But children are a huge financial burden. Large families are bad, because already limited financial resources have to be distributed, within a family, to a greater number of children. Economics frequently drive women to seek an abortion in the first place. Unintended pregnancies have become increasingly concentrated among low-income women, who by 2011 were more than five times as likely to experience one as those with greater means. Among women getting an abortion, a 2004 study found, the most frequently cited reasons were that a new child would interfere with education or work or that women couldn’t afford to have a baby at that time. Abortion rates roseduring the recent recession, particularly among low-income women, as they and their partners lost jobs and income. Additionally abortions offer an excellent way for population control, if contraception failed you, afterall our population is growing beyond 7.5 billion.Family planning is extremely important and any unwanted pregnancy and children can or most likely will damage someone's life objectives, dreams or things they've enjoyed. Unwanted preganancies usually result because of improper sexual intercourse and very rarely when contraception is used. Well lad, teenage pregnancies do happen and they are not rare. Also imagine a bunch of other irresponsible, but young slackers, who may even succeed in life, but are suddenly stopped from achievening that, because they have to raise a child.Children of these irresponsible parents, too often won't have normal childhoods and just imagine the suffering they will have to go through in life. According to Wikipedia, abortions, when allowed by law, in developed countries are one of the safest procedures in medicine. Abortions have been a part of human history since at least ancient times. Even when it was illegal in the western world, it was still practised. However when such an activity as abortion is illegal, women will perform them in secrecy under poor circumstances with no available help if needed, because they would be arrested otherwise. All around the world many women die due to unsafe abortions, each year 47,000 deaths and 5 million hospital admissions. Abortions eliminate the possiblity of infanticide and especially child abandonment.With abortions we're technically killing a living being, but I honestly can't feel any empathy for a chunk of flesh, despite it having human genes.In fact, using abortions, we're eliminating future suffering and sadness for the mother and the never born child. An child can feel pain and sadness, but an embryo can't.My argumentation is over and I shall now answer and comment Con's questions and arguments.Women already do not have control over their bodies, it is proven by that once a month period of time. -I'm not even going to comment on that, but I can say we men also don't have absolute control over our bodies. While you may not have control over your body, you still can do whatever you want to it.Children depend on their parents to develop, should the parents simply decide to murder them, get rid of them, because they are not a convenience for the parents?-No they shouldn't and you're right, but only once they've been born. I meant that the unborn child's metabolism is dependent on the mother's body and therefore she can choose whether she wants to keep an depedent, but seperate developing organism in her.Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me as if you're saying that if a baby resides in the mother's womb she has the right to abort just because it resides temporarily in her womb. What if I said, "My cousin is staying in my room for her visit, but because it's my room, I guess I'll kill her." Stupid, right? You're probably thinking, "This is a totally different situation", but it's not. Same logic. -I see what you meant to say, but let me modify your example using the same logic, but in a more fitting situation, because I love correcting people:What if I said, "My brain-dead cousin has been situated in my room, but to keep him alive I'm risking my financial future. Should I stop keeping his body alive or should I dedicate my life to him?