Abortion

Thesis Abortion should not be legal in the United States. Abortion, in most cases, is needed as a result of irresponsible decision; furthermore is also the murder of an unborn child, the fact that the child is unborn does not change this. Finally, in most cases abortion is a disgusting convenience to the women in question, and in not morally justified. Contention 1: The Cult of Irresponsibility A. In most cases abortion is the result of irresponsible and irrational decisions of the pregnant women. The need for an abortion is the result of the unwillingness to use birth control for no reason. The social views of society encourage this behavior. Abortion encourages this responsibility to run rampant in society, and therefore should not be allowed. B. An AGI study in 2004 gave the amount of women who want an abortion because of rape, risk of mother, and incest at less than 1% combined(1). This thereby proves that most abortions were the result of consensual sex. C. Because over 99% of people who have had an abortion knew there was a risk of having a child. The question is why, with birth control very easy to obtain, do women still have abortions? It is because of the unwillingness to use birth control responsibly and effectively. D. According to a study 54% of people who have had an abortion have reported having a contraceptive, but less that U33; of the people involved in the study claimed that they used the contraceptive responsibly. And over half report using their contraceptive inconsistently. Of course 46% of women of women report not using a contraceptive(2) E. Contraceptives are incredibly easy to obtain, you can buy a pack of condoms for $12 at your local CVS. Anyone who can obtain an abortion could have obtained a method of birth control prior to having sex at a lower price. F. Clearly, in almost every case of an abortion, the abortion could have been prevented, and were the result of immature and unsafe behavior. Abortion is one the safest medical operations in the world(3); this makes abortion much more widespread. G. As a transition to my next contention, it is not at all fair or morally correct to murder an innocent life because the mother decided to make some immature decisions. Contention 2: Cold-Blooded Murder is Immoral A. I don't think anyone in the world would ever support the murder of a baby, and it is a social standard that murder is, in fact, immoral. Therefore, in this contention I must prove that an unborn child is a human being in order to prove my contention true. B. The haploid gametes of the sperm and the egg are united in the beginning of pregnancy. The creation of the zygote, a cell with 23 pairs of chromosomes must be a hallmark of humanity. The union of the two haploid cells into a diploid cells is the moment when “humanness is achieved” C. That zygote has 46 pairs chromosomes (In cases of birth defects the following still holds true), has 99.9% of it’s DNA in common with the rest of us. This similarity makes the fetus, in fact, human. That zygote, over the course of pregnancy, will obtain help from the mother to become like the rest of up. D. The definition of the term “human being” is “any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens; a person, especially as distinguished from other animals or as representing the human species.” there is no word in that definition that excludes the unborn from being a human. E. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) defined the moment that a human life is formed when the human embryo is implanted into the uterine wall(4). Again, the unborn human has been defined as a human. F. In society unborn children also are commonly defined as human beings. Only when the debate of abortion arises does the definition become jumbled with irrelevant and blatantly wrong claims that are not backed by science. An unborn fetus is on many occasions defined as a kid my the mother who are bearing the burden. G. Near birth a human fetus will kick the inside of the female uterus, the being inside of the pregnant women is alive. It is human, nothing more, nothing less. H. If I was to crash my car into the car of a pregnant women, I would be charged with double homicide in many places in the US. Not single homicide. How can something that is unhuman have rights? Even in law a fetus is considered a human life. I. In many science classes, or in scientific conversation the fetus, and on many occasion the fertilized egg are described as a human life(5). Science and common knowledge both back up the idea that a fertilized egg is a human. J. As a result of this we can conclude that abortion is nothing but glorified murder of an innocent of human life. I will remind you that the baby is truly the most innocent human being possible. Sources 1.https://www.guttmacher.org... 2.http://www.womenscenter.com... 3.https://5aa1b2xfmfh2e2mk03kk8rsx-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com... 4.http://www.lifenews.com... 5.https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com... 6.http://www.ncsl.org...