Abortion

I must point out, before I begin, there would not be any debates in this World if we each didn't have an opinion fueled by emotion. You can't debate about cold hard facts, such as, these words are black. However, I will grant your wish for more research on my part, with *reliable* resources. Has anyone heard of Dr. Kermit Gosnell? He is an abortion doctor in Pennsylvania that is currently being charged for 8 murders. What does this have to do with anything? Well, seven of the murders were babies that were aborted. He "induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy and then killed those babies by cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing their spinal cord," District Attorney Seth Williams said. You may say, this isn't the type of abortion we were talking about. But I say, abortion is abortion is abortion. There is no difference in the stage of development it is in. If a person is 60 years old, it's considered murder. If a person is 4 years old, it is consisted murder. If the person is 6 months in the womb, it is still murder and as you see now, people are being prosecuted with the cases. "Sometimes abortions have to be made due to risk to the mother"s life similarly socioeconomic abortions have to be made to save the life of children who are already born. I ask you will it be fair for 2 million+ children to suffer and die who are already in this world ? So that we can bring new life. The amount of resources spend on new born can be easily diverted to save the life of these innocent 2 million." (a quote from my reputed opponent) We do need to protect life, not by killing its almost born. It is still stopping the beating heart of a person, which is NOT saving people. In face, it is doing the opposite. People want and need to reproduce. Since the abortion numbers are rocketing, what are we going to do when people just have the baby? Do we still keep what we have then? We will have missed an entire generation. An entire generation of presidents, and doctors. Since the legalization of abortion in 1973, there have been approximately 50 million abortions performed in the United States. About 23% of all pregnancies end in abortion. There were 1.21 million abortions in 2005 compared to 4.14 million live births. Research indicates that 98% of all abortions are related to issues of "personal choice." The primary reasons women give for having an abortion include not feeling emotionally capable (32%) or financially capable (25%) of raising a child, and concern that having a child would drastically alter her life (16%). A 2000-2001 study by the Guttmacher Institute also found that about half of women having abortions had been using contraception during the month they became pregnant; 16.9% of women claimed their contraceptives failed despite proper use. Many people in the pro-choice field say that 'Pro-life people are just religious that think life begins at the moment the sperm meets the egg. If America wasn't a religious country, why does our Pledge of Allegiance state "...one nation Under God..."? Why do our coins say "In God we trust"? Life begins at one cell. That's all it needs. If we found a single cell on Mars, we would consider it life. Why isn't it the same for a fetus in a human body? "I've noticed that all of the people who are for abortion have already been born" Ronald Reagan (21 September 1980). I have personally noticed that all of the debates on abortion that have been debated on debate.org have the people that are for abortion that are winning. All of the abortion debates are winning in the pro side of abortion. Just because everyone is voting for the pro-side, doesn't mean that its right. I DARE YOU. Before you hit that vote button, to really think about the Hippocratic side to the pro-choice decision. You were born. Your mother didn't abort you, why abort the one who will call you 'mommy' or 'daddy' in the future. I dare you. Bibliography http://www.huffingtonpost.com... http://www.guttmacher.org... http://www.johnstonsarchive.net... http://www.guttmacher.org... http://www.johnstonsarchive.net...