Abortion is Morally Right

I am debating that the abortion cause is more ethical than the anti-abortion cause. Pro-life? Many against abortion claim that by having an abortion, you are killing a human being and therefore it is wrong. However, if you really analyze the facts and statistics, you may find that you’re actually killing fewer humans by having an abortion as opposed to having the child. Allow me to explain what I mean. Stem Cell ResearchStem cell research is thought to be able to cure up to 70 major diseases. It works because you can replace an infected cell with a stem cell, and the stem cell can infinitely multiply until the body is healed again. The two types of stem cells are adult stem cells (multipotent) and embryonic stem cells (pluripotent). The difference is, adult stem cells can only create cells of the specific type of cell it is, while embryonic stem cells can create cells of ANY kind (except eggs and sperm). The debate is, adult stem cells do not harm the host, while embryonic stem cell research requires the killing of a human embryo (future baby). But by allowing abortion, the embryo will be dead anyway. In that case, we can use those cells to cure those with fatal diseases. Embryonic stem cell research has been proven to be able to cure cancer. So for every embryo we “killed,” we could cure a patient dying of cancer. This would create a bit of a balance; no lives added, no lives taken away. Already, the concept of “pro-life” is becoming irrelevant, since no lives are being taken away. But there’s more. Chances of the Woman’s DeathIt’s a fact; women are less likely to die in a modern abortion procedure than they are from giving birth. The chance of a woman dying in an abortion is about one in 100,000, while the chance of her dying from birth is about 13.3 in 100,000. So, for every 100,000 women who want to have an abortion, we’d be saving about 12 of them from death. Crime and MurderAccording to Procon. org, a 2005 survey showed that 73% of women that had an abortion could not afford the baby, and 38% said it would interfere with their career goals. (Remember that some of this statistic is overlapping, considering that 73+38 is over 100. ) In which case, both the woman and the baby would end up in poverty. According to Jackson freepress. com, “Lower-class youth commit four times more violent crimes than middle-class youth. The total cost of crime in the U. S. is $2 trillion per year—$1.3 trillion comes from street crime and the remainder from economic crimes such as fraud. The victimization costs of street crime are approximately $700 billion per year. Poverty raises the cost of crime by at least $170 billion annually. Fifty-three percent of people in prison earned less than $10,000 per year before incarceration. ” As you can see, because the child will grow up poor, they are more likely to commit crime as opposed to middle or upper class children. According to Procon. org, “Some estimates claim that legalized abortion accounted for as much as 50% of the drop in murder, property crime, and violent crime between 1973 and 2001. ” This would result in less murder and less lives taken away from the general community. So when you think of it logically, abortion actually saves lives, as opposed to taking them away as many claim. PainAnother argument against abortion is the idea that the embryo will experience pain. Once again, allow me to explain why there would be less pain with abortion. Pain of the DiseasedAs I mentioned before, stem cell research can take away the pain of those suffering from cancer and other diseases. Many think about the pain of the embryo without considering the pain of those having to be tortured from the pain of cancer every single day. If we allow abortion and put stem cell research actively into practice, we can put this form of pain to an end. Pain of the MotherOnce again, everyone talks about the baby without considering how the mother is going to feel. Like I said above, the woman will have to experience the hardships of poverty, and turn her once-bright future into a pitiful one all because she couldn’t get rid of her baby. As opposed to my point above, this is more of an emotional pain rather than a physical pain. But it is pain, nevertheless. Pain of the ChildIf the child grows up in poverty, he/she will have to suffer as much pain as his/her mother. However, the real debate is whether or not it will cause pain to the fetus when it is aborted. It won’t. Pain is a result of our nervous system working and telling us that something is wrong. However, the baby’s cells still have a chance of turning into any organ; in other words, the embryo doesn’t have a fully developed brain, nor is it close to even having a nervous system. Chances are, the baby is going to experience more pain if it is allowed to grow up in poverty. Conclusion To sum it up: Allowing abortion will actually save more lives than it takes away. Allowing abortion will take away any pain caused by unplanned pregnancies, as well as saving those with deadly diseases like cancer from a slow and painful death. Sources . http://abortion.procon.org...http://www.jacksonfreepress.com...http://phys.org...http://www.americansforcures.org...