안태형 121065
Mr. Moon
Term Paper
Should abortion be allowed?
42 two million abortions take place each year throughout the world, which means that 115,000 unborn babies get discarded every day. Abortion can take place anytime between the very start and the very end of pregnancy. However, the most preferred period of abortion is when the fetus is not yet 18-week old. The definition of abortion is ‘any of various surgical methods for terminating a pregnancy’, and this is a perfect definition for abortion, because the process of abortion indeed actually includes ‘any’ possible surgical methods to kill the fetus in order to terminate the pregnancy. The abortionists literally cut the fetuses into pieces, which oftentimes include decapitations, and suck out the remaining pieces of the unborn babies from the mother’s womb with a vacuum machine. There are many other horrific ways of aborting a fetus with burning poisons and brooding knives, so in order to stop these kinds of unspeakable butchering to take place, abortion should be prohibited.
People say that abortion is the most humane and moral way to save an unwanted child from many possible sufferings, which will ruin the child’s life. They claim with their abstract beliefs that if a child is born into this world without the willing support of his or her parents, he or she will live a miserable life. Then, they, themselves even make the decision of whether the child should live or die. People say that they are just respecting the decision of the child’s parents and if the parents want their child to be aborted, there is no problem with abortion. However, a fetus inside a mother’s womb is alive and breathing just like one of us, so an unborn fetus deserves to be respected and treated as a human being. Nobody is allowed to decide whether the baby should live or die other than the baby himself. As it is a very serious and horrifying crime to murder an innocent person, killing a fetus should be considered as an equally serious and immoral crime against humanity.
In the first place, abortion wouldn’t have become such a major phenomenon around the world if parents were responsible and mature enough to control their behaviors. The major reasons for women to choose abortion are financial instability and fear of becoming a single mother. The major reasons for men to agree upon abortion are also financial instability and fear of becoming responsible for their children. Parents, who decide to have an abortion, say that they are doing the right thing to do, because it would be irresponsible to give birth to a child, who they cannot appropriately raise and support. However, their lack of consideration and care, when it comes to their sex life, is far more irresponsible than their puny excuses. If those parents cared so much about their children’s happy lives, they would never even think of killing their own children in order to hide their childish and irresponsible mistakes. Sacrificing an innocent baby because of some selfish excuses from parents is both morally and logically unacceptable.
There are many different types of abortion surgeries and the right ones are chosen, considering how old the fetus is. An actually physical surgery can take place when the baby becomes big enough to be recognized as a fetus. During the first twelve weeks after the fecundation takes place, Suction Aspiration method and Dilation and Curettage method are used to carry out the abortion surgeries. Suction Aspiration method is basically about sucking out the fetus from the mother’s womb with a vacuum machine, which is about 29 times stronger than the house vacuum cleaner. The fetus basically gets torn apart by the vacuum machine and gets discarded. Dilation and Curettage method is similar to Suction Aspiration method except that the abortionist manually cuts the fetus into pieces with a hook-shaped knife and scrapes out the pieces through the cervix.
As the fetus gets older, his or her bone structures become more solid and rigid, requiring an abortion process to include more extreme procedures. When the fetus becomes 18 week-old, Dilation and Evacuation method and Salt Poisoning method are used during the abortion process. Dilation and Evacuation method requires the abortionist to use a pair of forceps to crush the skull, break the spine, and twist other parts of the fetus in order to remove the pieces more easily. When this method is carried out and the pieces of the fetus are removed, vivid marks of severe bruises can be found on the fetus’s ripped up body parts. This indicates that the fetus struggles to get away from the forceps as the fetus’s body is getting torn apart into pieces. Salt Poisoning method can cause even more severe pain to the fetus than Dilation and Evacuation method. A long needle injects a strong salt solution through the mother’s abdomen into the baby’s sac and burns the entire surface of the fetus’s skin. The solution also poisons the baby when he or she drinks it and it takes over an hour for the baby to die.
Some adults say that there is no problem with abortion because the law states that a fetus is not considered legally as a human being as long as it is not born. They say that unborn fetuses do not have the basic human rights because the law says so. However, what really matters is morality. People have been using morality as a guideline to make and change the law. The very basic and the most important aspect, which separates us, the civilized humans, from other animals, is morality and tolerating abortion is the same thing as throwing away our own morality and becoming a savage. Unborn babies are very much alive. They feel pain just like us even when the abortionists are tearing them apart by force. There is no difference between an infant and an unborn fetus. If there is any, it is that the infant had a chance to see his or her mother when the unborn fetus could not.
Abortion is cruel and wrong. The procedures of abortion are extremely gruesome and unethical. Unborn fetuses do not get anesthetized before the abortionists start cutting them up into pieces, so they feel everything throughout the surgery. Abortion is not only cruel and gruesome, but it is also immoral. Babies are not some things that we can create and destroy whenever we want, according to our personal problems. It is morally unacceptable for parents to have an abortion after they created a life just because they do not want the baby. Also, legal justification of abortion, saying that unborn fetuses are not considered as human beings, is morally controversial. Every single human being living in this world today was once a fetus, which means that unborn babies are not different from any of us. They are human beings just like us and should be treated equally by granting them with their basic rights. There are also multiple deadly side effects, which can seriously hurt the mothers. By accommodating all the reasons above, abortion should be prohibited due to its cruelty and immorality. Instead of aborting their children, the parents should seek for alternatives, such as sending them to an orphanage or finding some people, who are willing to adopt the children. Either way, it would be better than slaughtering the babies without even providing them with some chances.
Sources
– http://www.anael.org/english/abortion/
– http://www.the-gospel.org/stdy_fmly/abortion_effects.php
– http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/abreasons.html
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