Abortion

Time and time again, a fetus has been ruled, in both American and Canadian trials, not a legal citizen. Technically, if we were speaking about it's rights, it would technically be an illegal citizen, since it has no papers under file. The Supreme Court decided in 1973 that the unborn fetus had no constitutional rights until the third trimester (24-28 weeks), as it is incapable of functioning independently from the mother until that time. Right-to-Lifers claim that because the fetus will develop into a human being, it demands the same paternalistic protection that is extended to animals, children and others subject to exploitation and maltreatment. The fetus must be accorded the same constitutional rights as its mother. Here's the thing though, it hasn't been born freely, so it does not have equal rights. If it cannot speak, cannot feel, we are doing nothing wrong. Unless, of course, the abortion happens after the 3rd trimester, which never happens. Here's a scenerio where Pro-Life screws a good person over. Although used often, it fits perfectly. Betty is No. 1 in her whole school. One day, she is walking home from school. She is attacked a brutally raped. Betty finds out later that she is pregnent. If she had a choice, she wouldn't have to go through the pain and suffering of a pregnency, and possible caring after a child. Her life suffers in the pro-life option. Her rank drops due to bullying, having to take time off of school for the birth, and later caring for the child. She could put it up for adoption, but she has gone through so much pain for this baby she didn't even really want, so to just give it up is not an option to her. But even if she did, she's already dropped her grades, she can no longer play sports because she blimped up during the pregnency, and kids tease her. But since she didn't, she can no longer go to college and, as awful as it may seem, many people find having a child as a turn off. So now she is a single mother who is about to be fired from her job at Mcdonalds because she has to bring the baby with, and it cries. All of this could have ended with the choice to cause an abortion to something that wasn't even supposed to exist and, unlike Betty, will not feel the pain of all of it ending. Fast forward 5 years, Betty has died from suicide, since her life was turned around so badly. The kid now jumps from foster home to foster home. With a father either in hiding, or locked up, or dead. And a mother who has commited suicide by this kid indirectly. Now the kid has a crappy life, and the mother HAD a crappy life. All because it's 'inhumane' to abort a fetus before it even has a conscience. That quote refers to abortion as a deadly drug, but it's not close. It stops the baby from developing, and is not the murder of a human.. Also, no matter what you believe in, the baby will be in a better place. Also, when dictionaries define 'abortion', they say that it is the termination, or destruction of a fetus. Never death. This is because it's not a death, but in fact is just stopping the birth. In the ancient Greek times, abortions were not as safe as they are today. Quite actually, the killing of the baby was practically killing themselves back them. That leaves me to believe the analogy means it is actually helping them kill themselves.