Abortion

Because almost all my points seem irrelevant and "we are going in circles", I will simply post my speech. Ignore the God parts since you are not a believer. Murdering the Innocent A nice quote: “If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. ” ~Mother Teresa of Calcutta People who are pro-abortion have many reasons to justify it. The first thing they say is that abortion is not murder, the thing they are taking out is simply tissue. According to About. com, people say that the “concept of personhood is different from the concept of human life. ” Also, they believe that because the baby cannot live without the mother, they “cannot be regarded as a separate entity. ” However, this is wrong because as long as that tissue will continue to grow and develop into a human, it has a future and the same qualities a human will have, just later on. The second thing they say is that the procedure is safe. According to the Biblical website, wholeworldinhishands. com, people say that .5% of medical abortions turn out badly for the mom’s health. This is wrong, however, because tests have been done and shown that people, who abort their child become depressed, are more prone to commit suicide, get cancers, and develops other physiological problems. Thus, both “positives” to committing abortion are wrong and the choices are not only fatal for a person’s child, but perhaps for the mom. Abortion can only be considered murder of an innocent being. When someone surgically removes the child from the mother, they kill something that would be living. On Livestrong. com it says: “An unborn baby has a heartbeat as early as near the end of the first month of pregnancy, during week four or week five… This is just two to three weeks after conception. By this time, the heart is actually pumping blood with a steady rhythm. ” This means that when people normally commit their crime in the first trimester, they did actually kill because whatever has a heartbeat is a living thing. Also, at six weeks and six days, a person can see on an ultra sound the baby’s eyes, nose, mouth, and heartbeat. When people abort their kids, they are cutting off that heartbeat that says, “I’m alive! ” and killing their child. In the Bible, God clearly states in Exodus 20:13: “Thou shalt not kill,” and because abortion is murder, they are also pushing aside God’s law along with their health and a life. This Biblical quote clearly states that murdering is wrong and people who kill their kids go against God’s will which is fatal to their soul; people would assume those committing abortion are not saved. Abortion kills not only the child, but the person’s soul even more and is proved completely wrong. In addition to people thinking abortion is not murder, they also think that it is safe. The procedure is not safe and can cause many cancers, physiological problems to the mother, and can increase the risk of a miscarriage. According to afterabortion. org, “44% [of women] complained of nervous disorders, 36% had experienced sleep disturbances, 31% had regrets about their decision, and 11% had been prescribed psychotropic medicine by their family doctor. ” This proves that having an abortion can hurt you emotionally. On the same site, it shows those women after having an abortion committed suicide more than a non-pregnant woman, a woman who went through a miscarriage, and a woman who bore her child, once again showing the instability in their emotions. Also, on the same site, it states that a person has more of a chance of post-traumatic stress disorder, child neglect or abuse, drugs and alcohol, smoking, eating disorders, cervical cancer, ovarian and liver cancers, handicap children in other pregnancies, internal bleeding, infection, and more. The number of the things that can go wrong after an abortion should not be there if it is “safe. ” Thus, abortion has a lot of side effects and can scar a person’s emotional stability if done and cannot be considered “safe” with amount of side effects. Another thing that people committing abortions is that there is no such thing as an unwanted child and that their child could have had a future without them. Many people who are adopted have become great and gone to a loving family that cares about them; every adopted kid could have been aborted, but it was their parent’s choice and they made the right one. On abortionprocon. org, it states that there is a “lack of adoptable babies because abortion is legal. Over two million couples are waiting to adopt babies, and only 134,000 US children are available to be adopted as of June 2002. ” So many couples cannot have a kid because of different reason, but they want one and then there are careless people who spend around $1,000 on getting rid of their kid before their born. Think of Steve Jobs who just died of cancer; he was adopted and his parents had the chance to get rid of him, but they didn’t. They kept him and he created Macintosh which most people use today; without him, some people’s favorite computer may not even exist today. As my aunt told me, “Adoption is a heroic decision made by birth parents to give life to their beautiful babies, to care and nurture them while they grow inside of them and, then with the greatest love of all, give them to another that desperately wants them and is dedicated to giving them the life of their full potential. ” This means that children who die because of parents who are simply careless with lives can go to a desperately wanting family and have a life and future instead of go through pain and because unjustly murdered. Thus, abortion is wrong because the child can go to a wanting family. Abortion should be outlawed and should be discouraged by everyone. Even though people say abortion is simply taking out some tissue, they are taking out a person, something that will grow and develop. Also, because others think that abortion doesn’t have any side effects and consider it safe, safe is not a possible word to describe abortion given the many side effects it has with a person’s physical and emotional health. Adoption should always be there in the person’s mind, not abortion. Abortion should not even exist and adoption should be the #1 decision if a person can’t afford or doesn’t want their child because there is no such thing as an unwanted child if others are willing to take him or her in. In conclusion, abortion doesn’t solve anything, kills something that could have had a future and a potential to become great, cannot even come close to safe, doesn’t give others a chance of parenthood, and most of all disobeying God’s will for his children. Thus, there is no justification for murder because of selfish ambitions. This is what I wrote for a class of mine. I also promised a video. In the end it talks about God so that part will be irrelevant to you, but in the beginning it talks about the Holocaust and abortion and relating the two so you may think that the video is irrelevant in the beginning, but it has to do with the topic. . http://180movie.com...I will close out with a video and my speech/essay. No, it doesn't contain stuff about pregnancy, but I made this quite awhile ago before I started debating with you. We are talking about abortion, not the risks of pregnancy. Good luck and nice debating with you.