Abortion should be made illegal.

We all know what abortion is; or at least we think we do. We listen to the stories on the news, we read opinion articles in the paper arguing this or that, but we never really pay attention or try to understand. This needs to change. Abortion is harming families and people all over the world because the most vulnerable people on Earth are literally being ripped apart and desperate mothers are tricked into an unsafe procedure that will have lasting effects on her and her family because they feel they have no other options. People simply do not know what they are getting into. Abortion is a dangerous procedure that kills 48,000 women annually and scars another 5,000,000 for the rest of their lives, both physically and mentally, according to Lisa B. Haddad and Nawal M. Nour in a study for the National Institutes of Health. Pro-abortionists may claim that abortions are safe, and that is only partially true. Almost half of worldwide abortions are unsafe, about 20,000,000 of the existing 42,000,000, were actually unsafe. This number is widely agreed upon, as I found in my studies, on the Guttmacher website, WebMD, and the National Institutes of Health website alike. While in developed countries this risk is much lower, it is still very real. Abortion is more dangerous than actually delivering the baby and then putting him or her up for adoption, as a study on LifeSiteNews by Carolyn Moynihan shows. This study presents evidence that in Chile, which has the second-lowest maternal death rate in the world, the deaths of mothers quickly dropped as abortion was outlawed. Many women are still convinced that what they are doing is the best for the baby, but regardless of the truth of that statement, they may not know about safe alternatives for both them and their child or children. So is it really worth it to abort despite all of this risk? The answer is no, but pro-abortionists may say that it is not the place of the government to determine this because illegal abortions will hurt more people. According to Susan A. Cohen in a report for the Guttmacher Institute, developing countries with strict abortion laws are riddled with unsafe abortions that harm the mothers. Most of these are performed in unsafe conditions. However, the same study in Chile from before refutes this claim. The difference? Information. Chileans likely have a greater ability to access information than many people in Africa do. The information problem is not localized to Africa, though. An interview with Tillie Trebon demonstrates how many people do not have informed, or even fully formulated, opinions about abortions. If information were accessible to more people, it would be easier to make people have less abortions, and safer abortions in the case that they still occur. In addition to this falsehood, a report on LifeSiteNews by former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson tells us that Planned Parenthood will illegally help mothers abort their unborn children in the case of new abortion laws. They would do this by teaching women how to overdose on vitamins to induce a miscarriage and subsequently return to the clinic to have the dead fetus removed. Thus, it is the government"s role to outlaw abortion and enforce that law. It is a falsehood that there would be a huge number of illegal abortions but Planned Parenthood and others will stop at nothing to make sure people get those abortions. Many people have misconceptions about how safe abortions are, as seen in all three of the interviews I conducted; people were shocked how dangerous abortions were. However, they then turned around and said that releasing abortion laws would make abortions safer. This, while seeming logical, is not. Lessening restrictions on abortions will allow people to take shortcuts during the procedure, further endangering the mothers who are already at high risk. People argue repeatedly that restrictive abortion laws endanger women, but this only occurs with a number of factors, primarily education. If people were educated about the dangers of abortion, much would be different. In all three interviews, the numbers of deaths shocked people and injuries abortion has caused, yet people continue to argue constantly that abortion is safe while hoping that nobody actually looks at the facts. If all people would be educated about how dangerous these procedures are, there would be a much lower abortion rate and more laws requiring strict health standards. Yet no matter how hard we try to make abortions safe, one person usually dies. Perhaps the biggest argument about abortion is that a fetus is a human. If a fetus is a human, naturally a massive dilemma arises; over 50 million children were killed. However, many pro-choice advocates are adamant either that a fetus is not human, that it is fine to abort if the mother"s life is in danger, or that it is acceptable if the child will not have a good life. There are several responses to each: firstly, it is proven that a human is an independent human being. Secondly, if a mother is willing to put her life before her child that creates a scarring for life mentally. Finally, it is uncertain that the child will not have a good life. Many choose to abort if their child has Down syndrome, but this is unacceptable. I personally know several people with Down syndrome who are living happy lives. It is not a generous choice to abort; it is a selfish one that pro-choice advocates are trying to mask. Nevertheless, the all-encompassing debate is whether or not a fetus is human. We see many people debating, however there are a few facts one can discern. According to Dr. Dianne N. Irving, Ph.D. for the American Bioethics Advisory Commission, a fetus is absolutely human because of a few critical points. First, the fetus is not part of the mother. The fetus is individual combinations of DNA that is not the same as the mother"s nor does the fetus provide any biological benefit to the mother. Second, the fetus is completely responsible for its own growth. Many would expect that the mother"s cells would "teach" the fetus how to grow, but the fetus" own cells already can make the fetus. Many abortion supporters would argue, however, that the fetus is absolutely dependent on the mother for food and other nutrients. Dr. Cindy Martin, M.D., in her interview, stated that a baby could not survive on its own until about 22 weeks. However, we see that this changes based on scientific advancements of the time. If a fetus were born at 26 weeks 1,000 years ago, that fetus would undoubtedly die. However, now we can keep that fetus alive and it could go on to have a happy, healthy life. Thus, we can reasonably expect this process to continue all the way up to conception, where the woman"s egg and its 13 chromosomes interacts with the man"s sperm and its 13 chromosomes to produce something unique from the parents" 26 chromosomes each. Each fetus is a mixture of 26 chromosomes that make it completely different from any other human. Pro-abortionists argue then that a clone, by this definition, would not be a human. This is, in essence, true. Cloning is an extremely dangerous process that, without exception, has produced subjects physically damaged, or dead, and mentally unstable. This is why it is illegal to clone humans. It is not moral to create a specimen only to observe its personality deterioration and excruciating physical death. This clearly demonstrates how a fetus is a human and how the pro-choice argument falls apart. When we finally come back to the opinion of abortion supporters, we see that said opinion is formed on unscientific and biased sentiment that has passed through multiple filters. The clear truth is that a fetus is a human being. In conclusion, abortion is legalized murder that not only kills the victim but also endangers the bystander. The only way women and babies can be safe is if this process is completely outlawed. It is unacceptable for humanity to threaten life, especially when that tiny life is not able to defend itself. The fact is that abortion has never been about the welfare of an unprepared mother but the profit of giants like Planned Parenthood feeding off people in their darkest hours. Is this what we want our society to be remembered by? A place where we are more concerned with population control and the importance of some people than others than with protecting the first unalienable right? Sources: 1. http://www.webmd.com... 2. http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org... 3. https://www.guttmacher.org... 4. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... 5. https://www.all.org... 6. https://www.lifesitenews.com... 7. Martin, Dr. Cindy, M.D. Personal interview. 8 March 2015. 8. https://www.lifesitenews.com... 9. Serassio, Serena (county attorney). Personal interview. 5 March 2015. 10. Trebon, Tillie. Personal interview. 26 February 2015. (Source selected for value in evaluating the argument that rape and incest are ok for abortions)